The Barents Region

Introduction - Olav Schram Stokke and Ola Tunander PART ONE: A NEW POLICY FOR THE NORTH The Barents Region - Institutions, Cooperation and Prospects - Johan J[o with a line through]orgen Holst Cooperation in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region - Andrej Kozyrev Promising Begining Inventing the Barents Region - Ola Tunander Overcoming the East-West Divide Where Cultures Cross - Robert Bathurst Old Russia in a New North Living Conditions in the North - Erik Hansen The New Divide The Dynamics of the Barents Region - Rune Castberg, Olav Schram Stokke and Willy [o with a line through]Ostreng PART TWO: TOWARDS A COOPERATIVE REGION? The Barents Region in Historical Perspective - Jens Petter Nielsen Economic Cooperation - Rune Castberg Potentials and Problems in Northwest Russia The Barents Sea - Alf H[a with a circle on top]akon Hoel Fisheries Resources for Europe and Russia Oil and Gas - Arild Moe Future Role of the Barents Region Environmental Cooperation as a Driving Force in the Barents Region - Olav Schram Stokke The Northern Sea Route and the Barents Region - Willy [o with a line through it]Ostreng PART THREE: THE BARENTS REGION IN THE NEW EUROPE Russian Perspectives on the Barents Region - Pavel K Baev The Barents Region as a European Security-building Concept - Anders Kj[o with a line through it]olberg The Barents Region as a European Fronteir Region - Noralv Veggeland Region-building as Europe-building - Pertti Joenniemi Conclusions - Olav Schram Stokke and Ola Tunander

`Since the thawing of the Cold War international interactions in the Arctic have increased at a pace taking many by surpirse.... all of the 18 chapters are well informed and afford the reader many insights into the nature, purposes and prospects of what Stollenberg, in his short foreword, considers a possible model for post-Cold War East-West cooperation at the regional level.... All the chapters are informative and they hang together very effectively. Moreover, the editors' admirably succinct overview chapter adds the finishing touches to a high-quality volume on a subject of obvious interest to all those interested in political, economic, environmental and strategic developments in the High North' - Journal of Strategic Studies `Presents a heartening and authoritative picture of post-Cold War diplomacy and international cooperation.... a useful addition to the literature' - Choice