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Urban Networking as a Learning Process: an Exploratory Framework for Transborder Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region

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Sustainable Development for Central and Eastern Europe

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The Baltic Sea Region is an area with a centuries-old tradition of trade and cooperation, the “Hanseatic League” being a particularly notable example of this (Joenniemi 1993). Its modern history is, however, full of contradictions and barriers to interaction both between the individual nation-states and, during the Cold War, between the western and eastern blocs. The process of political and economic transition underway in Europe since the late 1980s has dramatically changed this situation. The Baltic Sea Region is now an emerging European mesoregion whose integrative power appears to lie in new forms of (mainly maritime) transborder cooperation (Figure 1). The list of potential integrative forces is vast, stretching from economic relations and transport links to cultural relations and environmental management (Pedersen 1993, Joenniemi 1993).

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Vartiainen, P. (1998). Urban Networking as a Learning Process: an Exploratory Framework for Transborder Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region. In: Graute, U. (eds) Sustainable Development for Central and Eastern Europe. Central and Eastern European Development Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72048-2_8

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