The Centre for Baltic Sea Region Studies (CEBAST) has developed a longstanding expertise in the study of political developments in the Baltic Sea Region. The centre is particularly focused on exploring the cross-disciplinary nature of regional affairs including the economic, social and cultural facets of the political developments in the region. Within politics, our expertise has primarily concentrated on the study of democratization, regionalization and Europeanization in the Baltic Sea Region. Lastly we have sought to study the applicability of political developments in the Baltic Sea Region to other regions in the European periphery and the EU's Eastern neighbourhood countries, including the Caucasus.
News about Cebast
New Course about an EU strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
This Autumn Uffe Jakobsen and Fabrizio Tassinari presents a new master level course regarding the EU and the Baltic Sea Region. It will focus on the regionalisation, europeanisation and democratisation of the Baltic Sea Region and the wider Northern and Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War. More specifically, it will focus on the impact on the region of the European Union’s Eastern Enlargement and on the positioning of the Baltic Sea Region between the Nordic countries, and Russia together with other former Soviet republics, now being part of the European Union neighbourhood policy, and the EU.
For more information about the course, please visit the study information system here .
Newsletter
Past issues of the Cebast Newsletters - from 2002 to 2008 - are now available online. They can be found under CEBAST Newsletters
News about the Baltic Sea Region
EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
This June, for the first time, the European Commission adopted a communication on the EU strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. The reason behind the need for this strategy are the escalating environmental threats, gaps in economic development and poor transport accessibility which need to be tackled urgently. The communication can be found here and the action plan can be downloaded here.
The June 2009 issue CEPS European Neighbourhood Watch can now be downloaded. Among other things, it deals with the challenges that islamist radicalisation presents for european political initiatives. The issue can be downloaded here.
Also, the June issue of Baltic Rim Economies can now be downloaded. It deals with the banking crisis and its Eastern European impact. The issue can be downloaded here .
