
Expert articles (pdf)
6/2011
- Štefan Füle: A renewed approach to the Eastern Partnership
- Konrad Niklewicz: Six months of the Polish Presidency
- Andrii Deshchytsia: Ukraine-EU relations – overview of the recent developments and perspectives for the nearest future
- Stanisław Koziej: Towards a new European Security Strategy
- Beata Wojna: The Polish Presidency and the Eastern Partnership
- Agnieszka Łada: Polish EU Council Presidency – efficient presidency in the difficult times
- Adam Eberhardt: Eastern Partnership and Poland’s EU presidency
- Alex Nice: Belarus and the Eastern Partnership in 2011
- Agnieszka Wójcicka: The Polish Presidency in the European Union in 2011
- Rafał Sadowski: The Polish EU Presidency and the Eastern Partnership
- Janusz Wróbel: Together faster and more efficiently
- Agata Łoskot-Strachota: The European Union’s external energy policy and its relations with its neighbours to the East
- Adam Łukaszewicz: Between the Baltic and the Mediterranean
- Ewa Dziedzic: Poland as a tourism destination – looking for a place in the market
- Elzbieta Kawecka-Wyrzykowska: Warsaw School of Economics and its international co-operation with Belarus and Ukraine
- Michael Gonchar: Ukrainian mainstream and dream stream of Russian energy policy
- Andriy Chubyk: South Stream – behind rhetoric
- Anaïs Marin: Belarus – the thwarted partnership
- Anton Lobach: Belarus's energy security
- Eduard Simchanka: Currency crisis 2011 in Belarus
- Murman Margvelashvili and George Mukhigulishvili: Georgia and its role in energy transit towards the West
5/2011
- Jose Manuel Barroso: Bringing EU-Russian relations to a new level
- Jyrki Katainen: The great potential of the Baltic Sea cooperation
- Mart Laar: The new threats to Northern-Europe
- Diana Wallis: The stalemate in Spitsbergen could be used to Norway's advantage
- Olavi Ala-Nissilä: Challanges for the EU from the perspective of external audit and accountability
- Petteri Orpo: Our common bond – ties that bind us
- Matthew Lodge: A shared vision for promoting sustainable growth
- Aleksi Randell: The Turku process – promoting concrete cooperation with Russian partners
- Henry Lindelöf: The City of Kotka looks to the East
- Veli-Jukka Pennala: Maritime situational awareness across borders
- Detlef Müller: “Friction generates heat” – tourism, cooperation and the Baltic Sea identification factor
- Jorma Korhonen: The Baltic Sea and the Arctic will increase their importance in the energy security for the European Union
- Suvi Innilä: Positioning Turku on the world map – the city’s year as the European Capital of Culture
- Arne Grove: Role and achievements of the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) on environment and energy in North-West (NW) Russia, as a part of the Baltic Sea Region
- Bo Österlund: Piracy is a menace to international sea traffic
- Nina Vaskunlahti: Russia and the European Union – a multilayered relationship
- Sergey Dubinin: Russian finance system on the waves of global finance crisis
- Mika Kaukonen: Finland needs a strategy for immigration
- Irinja Paakkanen: Current trends of internationalisation within the University of Turku
- Mathias Bergman: Not why?, not when? – but how! – innovative solutions for the Baltic Sea
- Vicente Carabias, Karel Haegeman, Alexander Sokolov, Manfred Spiesberger, Klaus Schuch, and Irina R. Kuklina: Foresight for EU-Russia S&T and innovation cooperation
- Marina Bouianov: Some observations on today’s European and Russian innovation process
- Charles Wessner: R&D procurement and the role of the SBIR program
- Ivan Bortnik: Innovative entrepreneurships in Russia
- Nikolai Puntikov and Stanislav Tkachenko: Does the Russian economic system support technological entrepreneurship?
- Fredrik Westerlund: Russian intelligence services can help domestic nanotechnology – by keeping at arm’s length
- Andrei G. Zabrodskii: Ioffe Institute and its contribution in the development of nanotechnology in Russia
- Ruslan Shafiev: On innovation activity in Russia
- Kalman Kalotay: Internationalization of high-tech industries – lessons for the Russian government
- Adugna Lemi: Internationalization of R&D – implications for Russia
- Kari Liuhto: Some policy proposals based on the Finnish-Russian innovation collaboration
- Irina Sarno: Learning economy in the Baltic Sea region – an experience of the Finnish-Russian cooperation
- Sergey Tsybukov: The "Triple Helix" of the Polymer Cluster
- Alasdair Reid: Integrating national innovation strategies to leverage the potential of the Baltic Sea region
- Eero Vuorio: Biocenter Finland – a novel way to restructure national research infrastructures
- Pekka Ihalmo: Culminatum works to develop an attractive innovation environment for biotechnology in the BSR
- Sergey Shishkin: Modernization of public health care system in Russia
- Simo Mannila: Future perspectives of Finnish-Russian cooperation in neighbouring areas in the field of social affairs and health
- Maarit Valo: Technologically-mediated communication in working life – a rich area for both basic and applied research
- Jorma Nieminen: The emergence in the 1970s of the Nordic mobile phone services and industry – learnings for today
- Anna Wziątek-Kubiak: Heterogeneity of innovation strategies of Poland’s firms
- Marjukka Mäyry: Friendship between Finland and Poland
- Hans Langh: Maritime transport in winter is necessary for Baltic Sea states
- Elisa Holma: Strong recovery in maritime transport volumes stalled with economic uncertainty
- Vladimir Miklashevsky: Real investment in Northwest Russia – Ground Zero for reindustrialization?
- Kim Wikström and Elena Ganskau: Adaptation of business models to local conditions in Russia – five Nordic companies' experience
- Esa Rautalinko: Implementing a luxury strategy in Russia
- Pekka Kuusniemi: Sanitary ware market differences in the Baltic Sea region
- Nodari Simoniya: Russia – facing new challenges on the world gas markets
- Viesturs Ozolins: Russia towards energy saving and renewable energy
- Svetlana Avdasheva and Guzel Yusupova: Antitrust cases against Russian oil companies – battle for cheap petrol is under way
- Stanislav Tkachenko and Dmitry Tkachenko: Special Economic Zones in Russia – new trends
- Lena Jonson: Six more years with Vladimir Putin
- Kirill Rodionov: The outline of political reforms in future Russia
- Anaïs Marin: Belarus – no economic miracle for free
- Barbro Widing: Economic cooperation around the Baltic Sea – in search of efficiency and good governance
- Dmitri Lanko: Russia’s 2012/2013 CBSS Presidency
- Ismo Söderling: Finland, and migration in the Baltic Sea Region
- Malla Paajanen and Riitta Kosonen: Joint promotion of the Baltic Sea Region – triple helix cooperation in practice
- Liisa Rohweder: Words cannot save the Baltic Sea
- Mikko Nikinmaa: Dioxin in Baltic salmon and herring – is it a toxicological problem?
- Kim Jordas: The challenges of professional fishery in the Baltic Sea – a Finnish point of view
- Irina Sennikova: Intellectual entrepreneurship as a way to innovation economy
- Erik Terk and Jüri Sakkeus: Future of North-South connections – about transportation, but not only transportation
- Esa Sallinen: How to select international distribution channels for business software products?
4/2011
- Martti Ruokokoski: Tourism in the Arctic region and the Kola Peninsula
- Clive Archer: The United Kingdom and the Arctic
- Lev Voronkov: Russia as the partner in the Arctic
- Gleb Yarovoy: Russia’s Arctic – a call for the new Arctic thinking
- Marlène Laruelle: Russia’s narrative on the Arctic – from patriotic rhetoric to the Arctic ‘brand’
- Lassi Heininen: Globalization and Arctic Strategies indicators of a new significant geopolitical change in the Arctic region
- Charles Emmerson: Inside out – the emerging geopolitics of a changing Arctic
- Alyson JK Bailes: Why does the Arctic matter for the Baltic (and the Baltic States)?
- Alf Håkon Hoel: International cooperation in the Arctic – 20 year anniversary
- Regis Rouge-Oikarinen: What future for Barents cooperation?
- Kristine Offerdal: New optimism in the Barents Sea
- Tatiana Petrovna Skufina and Sergey Vladimirovich Baranov: Complex estimation of socio-economic development of municipalities of Murmansk Region
- Frank Sejersen: Climate change and the emergence of a new Arctic region
- Erik Gant: Arctic strategies – from an indigenous perspective
- Liisa Holmberg: Arctic indigenous peoples and innovations
- Tamara Semenova: What future awaits indigenous peoples in Russia?
- Stefan Walter: Resource management in the North
- Frédéric Lasserre: Arctic shipping – the ships will come, but not for transit
- Tero Vauraste: Strong Arctic marine expertise from Finland
- Eini Laaksonen: Identifying challenges of Finnish companies in entering the Murmansk region
- Jingchao Peng: What is China doing in the Arctic?
- Sanna Kopra: The rise of China and international politics on climate change
- Mia Bennett: Canadian and American perspectives on the Arctic
3/2011
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Eero Heinäluoma: The Nordic-Baltic cooperation
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Guido Westerwelle: The importance of the Baltic Sea region for Germany – Priorities of the German presidency of the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS) 2011/2012
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Ingrid Nestle: Germany’s future energy policy
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Mikko Pukkinen: Finnish business and the Baltic Sea region
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Timo Rajakangas: Instead of three no’s it is four aye’s that apply to the EUSBSR
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Sten Nordin: Stockholm calls for greater commitment to the well-being of the Baltic Sea
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Vladimir Kuzin: Post crisis economic growth in Kaliningrad region
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Andrey Klemeshev: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University as an example of EU-Russia cooperation
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Bernard Lammek: The University of Gdańsk – the largest institution of higher education in Northern Poland
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Edgar Öhberg: The importance of fishery
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Mika Vehviläinen: The Baltic Boutique and the future of air travel
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Anneli Pauli: EU-Russia cooperation in promoting innovation
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Riitta Mustonen: Significance of international activities to the research system
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Michael Schlicht and Marion Mienert: German-Russian collaboration in research and innovation
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Vladimir V. Okrepilov: Economic development based on the economics for quality
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Frank Schauff: Russia-EU partnership for modernisation – words and reality
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Oleg Luksha: Russian Technology Transfer Network – gate to Russia’s innovations
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Igor Kuprienko: Finnish-Russian Innovation Centre – main results of activities
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Turo Uskali: Innovation and journalism – convergence
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Hanna Mäkinen: Innovations – a key to the future competitiveness of the Baltic Sea region
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Richard Connolly: Financial constraints on the modernization of the Russian economy
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Alexander Chulok: Using Foresight as an instrument for constructing future vision for key sectors of Russian economy – results and lessons
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Anders Björnsson: Science as an engine of integration – academic environments as common public spheres
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Klaus Schuch, George Bonas and Jörn Sonnenburg: International science and technology cooperation in Eastern European countries
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Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius: War and conflict in the Baltic Sea region – a historical perspective
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Artur Usanov: Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant – economics and geopolitics
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Pekka Salomaa: The electricity market around the Baltic Sea – still political
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Bo Petersson: Master of the house – Putin, the presidency and political myth in Russia
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Konrad Popławski: Is Russia still a bric country – exports to Russia during the global crisis from German perspective
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Urban Wråkberg: The challenges of forecasting Arctic energy projects
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Mai-Brith Schartau: The work of German environmental organization in the Baltic Sea region
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Timo Korpela: Joint Biotechnology Laboratory, twenty-two years Finnish-Russian successful collaboration in biotechnology
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Erik Bonsdorff: Some ecological and political challenges for the Baltic Sea
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Mia Crawford: Baltic Sea region rides on the green economic wave
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Eero Yrjö-Koskinen: From voluntary to legally binding measures in the Baltic Sea
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Níels Einarsson: Fisheries governance, equity, and externalities in post-crisis Iceland
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Wolf Born: After two years of implementation – The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea region at a crossroads?
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Juha Aaltonen: Turku Airport
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Arto Asikainen: Russian tourists in Finland – national success story of Finland
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Juhana Tuomola: EU information services in the Baltic Sea region
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Petteri Siika-aho: Multidisciplinary university and societal interaction
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Timo Koivumäki: Industrial business parks – SMSE employment platform in Russia
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Tero Vauraste: Efficiency gains through combination of oil spill recovery, icebreaking and cross-border cooperation
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Tero Hemmilä: Towards environmental friendly and productive agriculture – Yara’s solutions for a cleaner Baltic Sea
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Pasi Lähdetie: Enough food to feed the world?
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Elisabeth Lind: Affect peoples energy consumption by design?
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Katri Savijärvi: A better solution for waste management
Supplement issue
- Radosław Sikorski: The Polish Presidency – priorities and challenges
2/2011
- Karel De Gucht: Overview of current EU-Russia trade and investment relations
- Artis Pabriks: Challenges and solutions to the regional security
- Dirk Ahner: Completing the Circle – Russia and the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
- Björn Grönholm: Cooperation in change in the Baltic Sea Region
- Marko Pomerants: About the underlying documents that have shaped Estonia’s policy of internal security
- Aino-Maija Luukkonen: Pori–Riga – cooperation in the future
- Fred Karlsson, Henrik Lax and Henrik Meinander: Finland in need of a strategy for promoting language skills
- Andrea Goldstein: Big business in the BRICs
- Kai Mykkänen: Russia’s WTO accession might be a game-changer
- Vladimir Baranovsky: What is bringing the United States, Europe and Russia together
- Mikko Ruohonen and Lea Ahoniemi: China is ruling rare earth elements and oxide production
- Anders Blom and Ossi Tuusvuori: The Europe Foundation focuses its future action on the Baltic Sea Region – Baltic Sea strategy and protection is a priority area in Europe
- Silke Lorenz and Katariina Röbbelen-Voigt: Forum for social dialogue in the Baltic Sea Region – a model for Europe
- Marko Lönnqvist: Shale gas can shake up the European gas market
- Lars Petter Lunden: Russian gas price reform and its impact on exports to Europe
- Markku Kivinen: Energy superpower of business as usual?
- Pentti-Oskari Kangas: I am a happy man
- Seppo Knuuttila: Can the Baltic Sea recover from eutrophication?
- Juha Salonen: Eating bread to clean up the Archipelago Sea
- Irina A. Shmeleva: Sustainable development of Saint Petersburg – goals, problems, strategies
- Ilppo Vuorinen: Climate change in the Baltic Sea marine environment
- Stanislav E. Shmelev: Dynamic sustainability assessment – the case of Russia in the period of transition (1985-2007)
- Martti Komulainen and Katariina Kiviluoto: Baltic Sea needs public involvement
- Aleksandr Nikitin: Nuclear problems of the North-West of Russia (from Fukushima perspective)
- Anne Gry Rønningen and Ksenia Vakhrusheva: Renewable future in the Russian Barents Region
- Ingmar Oldberg: Security challenges in the Baltic Sea region – a Swedish perspective
- Mikhail Belkin: Northern Sea Route enters international shipping business
- Yrjö Myllylä: The North-East Passage is already a fact
- Valery Mitko: Evolution of geopolitical factors, determining innovative directions of the Arctic regions sustainable development
- Julian Cooper: Russia’s human capital and the task of modernisation
- Valdar Liive: Estonian-Finnish cooperation in the fields of innovation, and R&D as a start-up company
- Jukka Viitanen and Martti Launonen: Transferring innovation system knowledge to every-day best practices
- Henri Vogt: Estonia – ever more firmly in the nation-liberal course?
- Laura Kauhanen and Pekka Koponen: Materials technologies transform Estonian economy
- Irina Busygina and Mikhail Filippov: Modernization and innovative development in Russia – what lacks?
- Päivi Karhunen and Riitta Kosonen: Russia’s modernization program as opportunity for Baltic Rim economic cooperation
- Sinikukka Saari: The boom and crash of modernisation zeal in EU–Russia relations
- Sergey Filippov: Innovation strategies of emerging Russian multinational companies
- Katja Weckström: Law in the information society – a platform for cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region
- Csaba Makó, Péter Csizmadia, Miklós Illéssy, Ichiro Iwaskai, Miklós Szanyi and Péter Csizmadia: Innovation and knowledge development in the knowledge intensive business service sector (cross-country comparison – Hungary versus Slovakia)
- Leena Lehtinen: Are there any landowners in Russia?
- Jukka Pietiläinen: Is a new glasnost era beginning?
- Galina Shmarlouskaya: Benefits and challenges in developing regional integration (the case of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan)
- Matthew Frear: The EU and Belarus after the 2010 presidential election
1/2011
- Solvita Āboltiņa: Stability, partnership, responsibility – Latvia’s way out of the global financial crisis
- Olli Rehn: Working for revival of the European economy
- Riikka Manner: Regional policy ensures an intact future for the European Union
- Ulla-Maj Wideroos: Nordic cooperation – as important as ever
- Arja Karhuvaara: The many faces of natural gas
- Krista Kiuru and Vera Lindman: Arctic – the world’s new playground
- James Zhan and Astrit Sulstarova: Foreign direct investments in Baltic States – lessons learned and prospects for the future
- Maria Gaidar: Health care reform in the Russian Federation
- Volker Schlotmann: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as logistics hub for Baltic Sea transport
- Knud Andersen: Baltic Sea organisations put budgetary pressure on EU decision-makers
- Hannu Halinen: Arctic challenges – a Finnish view
- Valery Shlyamin: Modernisation of Russian economy in collaboration with Finnish partners
- Olli Perheentupa: Finnish presence in St. Petersburg
- Ramune Zabuliene: Lithuania – the adjustment process towards the euro
- Maria Kaisa Aula: It pays to invest in the welfare of children and families
- Tuula Teeri: Aalto University – think again
- Tapio Reponen: The University of Turku has its roots far behind and a look into the future
- Marja Makarow: The European Research Area needs to go global
- Joseph Nye: Russia and reform
- Fyodor Lukyanov: Russia at another cross-road
- Seija Lainela: Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan on way to closer economic co-operation
- Sergei F. Sutyrin: Russia and World Trade Organization (WTO) – end of journey or endless one?
- Jukka Ruusunen: Baltic Sea electricity market needs a functioning grid infrastructure – EstLink 2 will be one of the main electricity highways in the region
- Aloyzas Koryzna: Lithuanian Energy after the decommissioning of the Ignalina nuclear power plant
- Sergei Pereslegin and Artiom Zheltov: A new nuclear race
- Alan Riley: Whither Gazprom – can Gazprom survive in a shale gas world?
- Jaanus Mutli: Tallinn 2011 invites the world to hear its sea and its people
- Anne-Marget Niemi: Through great commitment a new tourist destination in the Baltic Sea is created!
- Wolfgang Blank, Leonas Grinius and Peter Frank: Creation of a healthy and wealthy Baltic Sea Region (BSR)
- Pirjo Karhu and Manfred Janoschka: New trends in business in Moscow–St. Petersburg
- Markku Mylly: Port development in the Baltic Sea Area
- Karl-Heinz Breitzmann: Impact of the recession on Baltic maritime transport
- Natalia Ivanova: Russia’s innovation policy and modernization agenda
- Marja-Liisa Tenhunen and Irja Leppisaari: The National Innovation Strategy’s impact on university of applied sciences learning environments
- Leonid Polishchuk: “Modernization from above” in historical perspective
- Markku Kangaspuro: Russia's search for modernizaton
- Karri Hautanen: Baltic Region will be the Silicon Valley of Europe
- Manfred Spiesberger: R&D and innovation – a window of opportunity for enhanced cooperation with Russia?
- Jukka Pietiläinen: Russian modernisation – technological or socio-cultural one?
- Félix Krawatzek: Modernisation of Russia – moving beyond rhetoric?
- Thorsten Posselt and Mathias Rauch: Internationalization activities of German cluster initiatives – the role of CEE
- Sam Inkinen: Innovation and “innoflation” – challenges of creative processes, systemic innovations, and ubiquitous technologies
- Alexey Ignatiev: The Kaliningrad Region as a modernization model of modern Russia
- Jouko Grönholm: How to make the challenges of Kaliningrad to become true?
- Tatiana Chekalina: Kaliningrad as an international tourism destination – still a challenge
- Ivan Samson and Marina Krasilnikova: The middle class in Russia – emerging reality or old myth?
- Andrey Pavlov: Russian military reform – what’s next?
- Joachim Diec: The perspectives of Russian radical nationalism
- Markku Jokisipilä: Kremlin takes its sport seriously
- Thomas Lundén: Szczecin – center of a truncated border region with geopolitical dilemmas
- Markku Ollikainen: Protecting the Baltic Sea – a challenge to the international environmental policy
- Håkan Knutsson: Baltic Rim countries in pole position in the eco-efficiency race?
- Juha Ruokonen: Carbon markets in transition – opportunities and challenges
- Sigitas Brazinskas: Through the integration in the Nordic Europe to the global value chains
- Andres Kasekamp: The Baltic States – moving together or apart?
- Päivi Toivanen: ‘Focus on the Baltic’ book sums up the facts
- Alexander Kulakov: Political and social stability in Ukraine after the first year of Yanukovych’s presidency
- Markku Tuomola: From industrial structures to agile global service networks – a disruptive revolution or led transformation?