Borders in the Baltic Sea Region

Dr. Andrey Makarychev is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Tartu, Estonia. His areas of expertise are political discourses, norms and identities as seen from different domestic and international perspectives. His record of previous institutional affiliations includes George Mason University (Fairfax, VA), Centre for Conflict Studies (ETH, Zurich), Danish Institute of International Studies (DIIS), and Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University. Dr. Alexandra Yatsyk is Visiting Researcher at the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sweden. She is also Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies of Post-Socialism and Associate Professor of the Journalism Department at Kazan Federal University, Russia. She has served and held research at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (GWU, USA), Centre for EU-Russia relations (University of Tartu, Estonia), School of Language, Translation and Literature Studies (University of Tampere, Finland), and Centre for Urban History for East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine).

• Chapter 1: Practising Baltic security at the overlap of the European and the post-Soviet societies of states.- Chapter 2: The Baltic Sea Region: From a hinge between Russia and the West to a rhizomatic information channel.- Chapter 3: Security Dynamics in the Baltic Sea Region before and after the Ukraine Crisis.- Chapter 4: Regional cooperation with an uncooperative hegemon: the case of the Baltic Sea Region.- Chapter 5: When Left and Right Is a Matter of Identity: Overlapping political dimensions in Estonia and Latvia.- Chapter 6: Russian speaking community in Estonia: Legal, political and security analysis.- Chapter 7: Baltic Region and Central Asia: what does it take to make a region? A critical perspective.- Chapter 8: Shaping Estonian: national identity in film, art and singing.- Chapter 9: The “Russian World” and the Securitization of Identity Boundaries in Latvia.- Chapter 10: (Re)-Drawing Borders: Russia and the Baltic states.