Mare Europaeum explores the development of regional cooperation in the Baltic Sea area from the end of the Cold War to present, and envisages a post-European Union (EU) and NATO enlargements scenario within the wider European framework of security and cooperation. The analysis is carried out through the study of security interdependence.
A theoretical framework denominated 'critical Region Building Approach' is developed to explain actor-based regional cooperation through the analysis of regional security. Based on this framwork, the case of the Baltic Sea is analysed in three phases. The first phase, which dates from 1989 to the early 1990s, interprets the rise of the regional cooperation. The second phase spans from the 1990s to the enlargements in 2004 and focuses on states foreign policies and on security policies ongoing at the European level. The third phase lays out the post-enlargement scenario and envisages cooperation as being based upon a number on non-military security sectors, particularly the environment, civil security questions, and the regional economy.
Lastly, it is discussed that which this regional experience can suggest to European security, with special reference to the relations between the enlarged EU and its neighbours, and to EU-Russia strategic partnership.
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