Borders in the Baltic Sea Region

1. Introduction: The Baltic Sea Region—Scars, Seams and Stitches
Andrey Makarychev, Klaus Segbers

Part I. Security Resurfaced: Rebordering on the Horizon?

2. The Baltic Sea Region: Practicing Security at the Overlap of the European and the Post-Soviet Society of States
Thomas Linsenmaier

3. The Baltic Sea Region: From a Hinge Between Russia and the West to a Rhizomatic Information Channel
Aki-Mauri Huhtinen

4. Security Dynamics in the Baltic Sea Region Before and After the Ukraine Crisis
Elena Kropatcheva

Part II. Retying the Region, Unlocking the Borders: Institutions and Governance

5. Baltic Sea Region-Building: An Impossibility, or an Inability to Finish?
Dovilė Jakniūnaitė, Živilė Marija Vaicekauskaitė

6. When Left and Right Is a Matter ofIdentity: Overlapping Political Dimensions in Estonia and Latvia
Kjetil Duvold

7. Russian Speakers in Estonia: Legal, (Bio)Political and Security Insights
Thomas Hoffmann, Andrey Makarychev

8. The Baltic Region and Central Asia: What Does It Take to Make a Region? A Critical Perspective
Anastasia Vishnevskaya

Part III. Inclusions and Mobilities: Cultural Strategies of Border-(Un)locking

9. Shaping the Estonian: National Identity in Films, Arts and Song
Alexandra Yatsyk

10. The “Russian World” and the Securitization of Identity Boundaries in Latvia
Angela Kachuyevski

11. (Re)drawing Boundaries: Russia and the Baltic States
Elizaveta Gaufman

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Science and International Relations, general