The NEBI Yearbook 2000

Thorvald Stoltenberg President of the Norwegian Red Cross Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board The 2000 edition of the NEBI Yearbook goes to press a few weeks before the of the fIxed 0resund Link between Copenhagen and Malmo, and the opening celebrations of this magnifIcent construction have already begun. Way back in the nineteenth century visionaries started dreaming of this connection between lands that used to belong together but had been torn apart by the visitations of the modern era: fanaticism, war, genocide and competing nationalisms. To be sure, the 0resund Link will have major economic impacts in both halves of the Zealand-Skane 0resund region, and the benefIcial consequences can already be detected in the shape of rising investments and falling unemployment in both the Greater Copenhagen and the Malmo-Lund areas. But to understand the true measure of the Link, one has to consider its political and even symbolic implications. The bridge is nothing less than the physical embodiment of a most welcome reversal of historical trends towards division, isolation and strife that have for too long afflicted not only Denmark and Sweden bur influenced rela tions all around the Baltic Sea and in the territories adjacent to the Barents Sea in the far north - in short the entire NEBI area.

This is the only book which deals only with the North European and Baltic Sea area and its opportunities and problems

Klappentext

The NEBI Yearbook 2000 aims to provide a balanced picture of both the integrationist opportunities and disintegrationist pressures in the North European and Baltic Sea area - a region with over 50 million inhabitants and great economic and trading potentials. It brings together a wide range of scientific methods and perspectives in addition to a comprehensive statistical section with information found nowhere else. The result is a unique source of up-to-date knowledge of this increasingly important European region.

Inhalt

1. Cross-border Integration in the Øresund Region: A NEBI Showcase?.- I: Economic Integration.- 2. Migration Potential and Migration Effects after EU Enlargement.- 3. Unemployment, Migration and the Effects of EU Membership on the Polish Labour Market.- 4. Immigration to Scandinavia: Good or Bad for the Nordic Economies?.- 5. Approaching a Single Labour Market: Emerging Migration Patterns in the Baltic Sea Area.- 6. Cross-border Commuting and Integration.- II: Spatial Planning and the Environment.- 7. The Politics of Sustainability in the European Arctic.- 8. Underwriting the Environment: Development Bank Influence in the Barents Region.- 9. Environmental Aid to Poland and Win-Win Strategies.- 10. The Regional Economic Effects of the Ferner Belt Link for the Western Baltic Area.- 11. Russia in the Baltic Sea Roundwood Trade.- III: Transborder Regional Co-Operation.- 12. Transborder Co-operation: An Assessment.- 13. The European Union and the Baltic Sea Region: Problems and Prospects for Stability.- 14. The Union's Institutional Reform and Enlargement.- 15. State to Region: Nordic Co-operation and the Winds of Change.- 16. Regional Lobbying in Brussels.- IV: Political Integration, Territorial Governance and Security.- 17. Building Military Stability in the Baltic Sea Region.- 18. US Policy Toward Northern Europe: Political and Security Aspects.- 19. Security Development in the Barents Region.- 20. The Process of Russian Decentralisation: Baltic Policy Implications.- 21. Security Aspects of the EU's Northern Dimension.- North European and Baltic Statistics.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- About the Authors and Editors.