The Baltic Sea region is like no other region in Europe an intersection between East and West and represents a diverse and multifarious setting of states and (regional) intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). With the end of the Cold War and the gradual enlargement of the European Union into Eastern Europe, these processes did not only bring renewed momentum to the relations among the Baltic Sea States but also increasingly transgressed into the Russian sphere of influence, causing alienation and conflicts.
On the basis of foreign policy decision making and foreign policy culture analysis, the seminar participants are to select one of the nine Baltic Sea states and analyze its foreign policy towards other states of the region, how these foreign policy decisions came to be, and what impact they have domestically and abroad. A special emphasis is given to the formation, workings, and influence of regional IGOs and how they might influence the foreign policy of states within the region and vice versa.
- Dozent/in: Martin Kerntopf