Euregio Karelia, Multiple Political-Territorial Levels, Multiple Territorial logics : A comparative analysis of the territorial logics of the overlapping political-territorial levels in Euregio Karelia and their effect on the development of Euregio Karelia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kramsch, O.T. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Velde, B.M.R. van der | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sturm, S.P. (Simon) | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this research the territorial logics of the different border producing actors involved in cooperation across the EU-Finnish-Russian border, from the supranational to the subnational, are analysed. At the basis of this research is the reterritorialization of European space. The traditional sovereignty based nation-state model is challenged from above by the formation of the EU, and from below through the formation of Euregio’s. Initially the EU predominantly focused on the internal situation. Now, the EU increasingly becomes a geopolitical power with its own foreign policies and cooperation policies, challenging the nation-state from above. Previously, the nation-state had a monopoly on foreign policy and cooperation with the 'other' side. Through the formation of Euregio's, the subnational level becomes involved in cooperation with the 'foreign'. The subnational level has its own foreign policies, challenging the territorial logic of the nation-state from below. The border between Finland and Russia became with Finland’s accession to the EU also the external border of the EU. On this EU-Finnish-Russian border Euregio Karelia was developed in 2000. This has created a complex multi-level (border) governance structures with different territorial levels of political action, or political-territorial levels, involved in cooperation across the border, hence involved in border production. These different political-territorial levels and their policies have a territorial underpinning, a territorial logic. With different ideas about the permeability of the border, creating different insides and outsides in different spheres of social action. The Euregio Karelia forms a territory where different political-territorial levels meet and overlap. It formed a prism for this research to see how the territorial logics of the EU, Finland, Russia, the Finnish regions and the Republic of Karelia relate and affect the development of Euregio Karelia into an integrated cross-border region. The analysis of the territorial logics is structured around the five dimensions of the territorial logic: the economic, the cultural, the political-territorial, the governance and legal dimension. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3019 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.thesis.faculty | Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen | en_US |
| dc.thesis.specialisation | Europe: Borders, Identities and Governance | en_US |
| dc.thesis.studyprogramme | Master Human Geography | en_US |
| dc.thesis.type | Master | en_US |
| dc.title | Euregio Karelia, Multiple Political-Territorial Levels, Multiple Territorial logics : A comparative analysis of the territorial logics of the overlapping political-territorial levels in Euregio Karelia and their effect on the development of Euregio Karelia | en_US |
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