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

 

  • Eero Heinäluoma: The Nordic-Baltic cooperation

  • 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

  • Ingrid Nestle: Germany’s future energy policy

  • Mikko Pukkinen: Finnish business and the Baltic Sea region

  • Timo Rajakangas: Instead of three no’s it is four aye’s that apply to the EUSBSR

  • Sten Nordin: Stockholm calls for greater commitment to the well-being of the Baltic Sea

  • Vladimir Kuzin: Post crisis economic growth in Kaliningrad region

  • Andrey Klemeshev: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University as an example of EU-Russia cooperation

  • Bernard Lammek: The University of Gdańsk – the largest institution of higher education in Northern Poland

  • Edgar Öhberg: The importance of fishery

  • Mika Vehviläinen: The Baltic Boutique and the future of air travel

  • Anneli Pauli: EU-Russia cooperation in promoting innovation

  • Riitta Mustonen: Significance of international activities to the research system

  • Michael Schlicht and Marion Mienert: German-Russian collaboration in research and innovation

  • Vladimir V. Okrepilov: Economic development based on the economics for quality

  • Frank Schauff: Russia-EU partnership for modernisation – words and reality

  • Oleg Luksha: Russian Technology Transfer Network – gate to Russia’s innovations

  • Igor Kuprienko: Finnish-Russian Innovation Centre – main results of activities

  • Turo Uskali: Innovation and journalism – convergence

  • Hanna Mäkinen: Innovations – a key to the future competitiveness of the Baltic Sea region

  • Richard Connolly: Financial constraints on the modernization of the Russian economy

  • Alexander Chulok: Using Foresight as an instrument for constructing future vision for key sectors of Russian economy – results and lessons

  • Anders Björnsson: Science as an engine of integration – academic environments as common public spheres

  • Klaus Schuch, George Bonas and Jörn Sonnenburg: International science and technology cooperation in Eastern European countries

  • Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius: War and conflict in the Baltic Sea region – a historical perspective

  • Artur Usanov: Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant – economics and geopolitics

  • Pekka Salomaa: The electricity market around the Baltic Sea – still political

  • Bo Petersson: Master of the house – Putin, the presidency and political myth in Russia

  • Konrad Popławski: Is Russia still a bric country – exports to Russia during the global crisis from German perspective

  • Urban Wråkberg: The challenges of forecasting Arctic energy projects

  • Mai-Brith Schartau: The work of German environmental organization in the Baltic Sea region

  • Timo Korpela: Joint Biotechnology Laboratory, twenty-two years Finnish-Russian successful collaboration in biotechnology

  • Erik Bonsdorff: Some ecological and political challenges for the Baltic Sea

  • Mia Crawford: Baltic Sea region rides on the green economic wave

  • Eero Yrjö-Koskinen: From voluntary to legally binding measures in the Baltic Sea

  • Níels Einarsson: Fisheries governance, equity, and externalities in post-crisis Iceland

  • Wolf Born: After two years of implementation – The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea region at a crossroads?

  • Juha Aaltonen: Turku Airport

  • Arto Asikainen: Russian tourists in Finland – national success story of Finland

  • Juhana Tuomola: EU information services in the Baltic Sea region

  • Petteri Siika-aho: Multidisciplinary university and societal interaction

  • Timo Koivumäki: Industrial business parks – SMSE employment platform in Russia

  • Tero Vauraste: Efficiency gains through combination of oil spill recovery, icebreaking and cross-border cooperation

  • Tero Hemmilä: Towards environmental friendly and productive agriculture – Yara’s solutions for a cleaner Baltic Sea

  • Pasi Lähdetie: Enough food to feed the world?

  • Elisabeth Lind: Affect peoples energy consumption by design?

  • 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?   

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