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The Pan-European Institute publishes a bimonthly discussion forum, Baltic Rim Economies (BRE), which focuses on the development of the Baltic Sea Region. In BRE, high-level public and corporate decision makers, representatives of Academia and several other experts contribute to the discussion.

Baltic Rim Economies 4/2010 was published on August 31, 2010.

Expert articles:     

Vlad Filat: Bringing Moldova closer to the European Union
Libor Roucek: Endangered European security?
Maud Olofsson: Energy co-operation in the Baltic Sea region 
Carl Haglund: EU and Russia – why they matter for the Baltic Sea
Jenni Kuronen: Fundamental changes are needed in the governance of maritime safety
Ramunas Vilpišauskas: Lithuania and euro – a second opportunity not to be missed
Jukka Gustafsson: Current challenges of Finnish and Russian shipbuilding – collaboration in R&D and building of ice class special tonnage
Bo Österlund: The Arctic region is warming up as a result of climatic change, and the repositioning of security policy
Marcel de Haas: Russia’s future security stance versus friends and foes
Seppo Ruohonen: Changing Baltic Sea military threats
Nikita Lomagin: Medvedev’s fourteen points – any added value for global security?
Peter F. Johnston: Arctic energy resources and security
Timo Hellenberg: How to secure the Arctic – more joint exercises, less high level declarations
Katarzyna Zysk: Russian perspectives on Arctic security
Teemu Palosaari: Ice melts, peace prevails. The race for resources in the Arctic?
Joan Nymand Larsen: Northern economies in a time of change
Timo Koivurova: Who should be governing the Arctic?
Tatiana Romanova: Russia in the Arctic area – more issues than it seems?
Roderick Kefferpütz: Putting Russia’s Arctic policy into perspective 
Yrjö Myllylä: Russia's geopolitical focus has moved to the North – the development of Murmansk region in the light of three scenarios 
Amelia Hadfield: Arctic adventures – cold shoulder or hot prospects?
Anna Sirina: Indigenous peoples of the North in Russian politics today
Eini Laaksonen: The uncertain future of the Shtokman gas field project in the Barents Sea
Sami Andoura: Towards a European Energy Community an opportunity for the Baltic
Dmitry V. Vasilenko: The EU gas market – doomed to Kalakh game
Susanne Oxenstierna: The Russian nuclear renaissance
Peter Lund: It is time to think more with brain than muscles in the Baltic Sea Region energy debate
Asta Salmi: Innovations and Finnish–Russian Research Co-operation
Juha Väätänen: How do Russian companies innovate
Kristiina Helenius: It’s time to step up FDI efforts
Ralph Hirdina and Thomas Jost: German investment in the Baltic States
Tauno Taajamaa: We should know how to do business with Russia – but do we really? 
Andrei A. Tatarinov: Olympic winter games in Sochi – costs and expected benefits
Kimmo Rentola: Post-Cold War politics of history
 

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