This book highlights the existence of co-existing and - to some extent - competing region-building projects in northern Europe.

In this respect, the European North can be seen as a kind of litmus test for the new Europe as a whole. This book highlights the existence of several co-existing and - to some extent - competing region-building projects in northern Europe. What unites them is that they can all be comprehended as efforts by existing nations to redefine their role in Europe at a time when the meaning of sovereignty and boundaries is changing. The use of history is one of the main rhetorical moves in the process of relocating nations and naturalising new regions.

Possessing a Baltic Europe - retold national narratives in the European North, Marko Lehti
Nordic near abroad or new Northern Europe? perspectives on post-Cold War regional co-operation in the Baltic Sea area, David J. Smith
past politics in North-Eastern Europe - the role of history in post-Cole
War identity politics, Jorg Hackman
from modern to post-modern region-building - emancipating the Finnish nation from the state, Christopher S. Browning
the encounter between the Nordic and the Northern - torn apart but meeting again?
looking for neighbours - origins and developments of Latvian rhetoric on Nordic "closeness", Valters Scerbinskis
regional security - all or nothing at all?, John Hiden
Estonia and
Europe - a common identity or an identity crisis?, Vahur Made
paradise regained - the conceptualization of Europe in the Lithuanian debate, Inga Pavlovaite
the Baltic States in Russian foreign policy discourse - can Russia become a Baltic country?, Viatcheslav Morozov
post-Soviet geo-politics in
the North of Europe, Pami Aalto
clash of the boundaries? the European Union and Russia in the Northern dimension, Hiski Haukkala.