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  Nord Stream, mediation, and the Council of Baltic Sea States

  By Levke Aduda and Stefan Ewert on 8 mars, 2018

  Recent discussions on expanding Nord Stream highlight the fact that this unilateral effort by Russia and Germany has stirred further unrest among the other littoral states. Here it is argued that the EU, which has been repeatedly proposed as a mediator of the conflict, is unsuitable for this. Instead it is suggested that the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS), are more likely to be accepted as mediators, and more likely to be successful in that role.

  Category: Scientific articles

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  infrastructure,

  By Katri Pynnöniemi on 16 januari, 2012

  Infrastructure forms a link between the open global economic space and the non-public Russian political space. The question of how to manage the most important trade flows and understand their social importance is not, of course, solely seen as a matter of Russian politics. The research on Russia is also connected to the recent debate on the importance of increasing globalization and the mutual dependence of societies.

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  The price of opulence

  By Anton Oleinik on 19 november, 2015

  This article discusses the reaction of the EU member-states to Russia’s 2014 military conflict with Ukraine. The European countries’ lack of united response and unwillingness to apply severe sanctions (restrictive measures) on Russia in a timely manner is attributed to a constellation of interests of the European countries and Russia in the European energy market.

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• Hungarian Election 2018. Nationalist rhetoric and foreign capital keep Fidesz-KDNP strong

  Among decided voters, the overwhelming popularity of Fidesz-KDNP has been rather stable since 2015. The opposition tried to push topics other than migration - such as healthcare - that are still important to Hungarian voters, and where real progress during the past eight years of Fidesz-KDNP rule is questionable at best. Nevertheless the winner of the elections is the governing coalition of Fidesz-KDNP. Oppositionist leaders and candidates, including several (re)gaining their mandate in parliament, have been resigning one after another or plan to do so very soon.

  By Péter Balogh Inga kommentarer till Hungarian Election 2018. Nationalist rhetoric and foreign capital keep Fidesz-KDNP strong

• Azerbaijan’s Mysterious Snap Presidential Election

  The proposition that a Presidential Election was held early because it was simply better to ‘get it out of the way’ in order to be able to focus on time consuming other events might appear far-fetched in other contexts. When considering the history of elections in Azerbaijan it appears to make sense. In fact, it is almost more puzzling why elections are held at all – when everybody knows who will win. But, in difference to the predictable result, the rumors and speculations preceding the election are intriguing and do tell us a lot about what is going on in Azerbaijan.

  By Sofie Bedford Inga kommentarer till Azerbaijan’s Mysterious Snap Presidential Election

• Roundtable. Threats to academic freedom

  Academic freedom is under attack. One example of mobilizing in order to protect academic freedom is the roundtable that was organized in connection with 2017 CBEES Annual conference Competing Futures: From Rupture to Re-articulation, at Södertörn University November 30 to December 1.

  By Ninna Mörner Inga kommentarer till Roundtable. Threats to academic freedom

• Nord Stream, mediation, and the Council of Baltic Sea States

  Recent discussions on expanding Nord Stream highlight the fact that this unilateral effort by Russia and Germany has stirred further unrest among the other littoral states. Here it is argued that the EU, which has been repeatedly proposed as a mediator of the conflict, is unsuitable for this. Instead it is suggested that the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS), are more likely to be accepted as mediators, and more likely to be successful in that role.

  By Levke Aduda and Stefan Ewert Inga kommentarer till Nord Stream, mediation, and the Council of Baltic Sea States

• Nuclear legacies: A saga of modernity

  The conference Nuclear Legacies: Community, Memory, Waste, and Nature took place from September 14 to 16, 2017, at Södertörn University. It gathered about forty scholars engaged in nuclear issues, coming from twelve different countries and representing many different disciplines.

  By Florence Fröhlig Inga kommentarer till Nuclear legacies: A saga of modernity

• The butterfly effect in history-making Conservative subjectivities of women in the anti-communist discourse in Slovakia

  The oral history archive of the non-profit organization Nenápadní hrdinovia (The Inconspicous Heroes) is considered as an example of a wider trend in Slovakia to exploit women’s memories for the purposes of conservative or nationalist interpretations of history, placing women in the traditional roles and discourses of victims, auxiliaries, and self-sacrifice. Using the concrete oral history project as a vehicle and a case study for the argument, the article contributes to the understanding of the current discursive landscape of memory of state socialism and of gender in Slovakia.

  By Zuzana Maďarová Inga kommentarer till The butterfly effect in history-making

• Female terrorists: political or just mad? Conservative narratives in the historiography of early 20th century female terrorism in Russia

  This article discusses the main narratives employed by conservatives at the beginning of the 20th century to explain the political violence committed by women, and it shows how these narratives have been employed in the scholarly analysis of the topic. The article provides an answer to the question why progovernmental conservative views on the female terrorists and terrorism in prerevolutionary Russia have never been influential in the historiography.

  By Nadezda Petrusenko Inga kommentarer till Female terrorists: political or just mad?

• Experiences of women at war Servicewomen during WWII and in the Ukrainian armed forces in the conflict in Donbas

  This paper examines women’s contribution to war and the perceptions of that contribution by comparing experiences of women in the Red Army during the Second World War and in the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the conflict in the Donbas region. Here it is argued that in both cases structural gender discrimination was ingrained in the military, which accepted women’s contribution to war in times of need, but treated that contribution as subsidiary, thereby distorting men’s and women’s experiences of warfare and facilitating the instrumentalized militarization of women.

  By Olesya Khromeychuk Inga kommentarer till Experiences of women at war

• Beasts, demons, and cold bitches Memories of communist women in contemporary Poland

  Agnieszka Mrozik analyzes the portrayals of women communists in the Stalinist period in Poland, produced in the framework of nationalist history during the illiberal turn. She argues that biographies of women dignitaries served the broader political function of delivering a cautionary tale against “excessive” liberation of women, so that female communists were often presented as beasts and demons rather than political agents.

  By Agnieszka Mrozik Inga kommentarer till Beasts, demons, and cold bitches

• Between gender blindness and nationalist herstory The history of Polish women in WWII as the site of an anti-modernist revolution

  This paper discusses the current “herstorical turn” in professional and popular historiography and memory of WWII in Poland: a growing interest in women and the distinctiveness of their wartime experiences. Focusing on one dominant strand of this “herstorical turn” – nationalist herstory – the article reflects on the ways in which women’s history has become one of the platforms a broader illiberal political shift that is currently ongoing in Central Europe.

  By Weronika Grzebalska Inga kommentarer till Between gender blindness and nationalist herstory

• International conference:1917-2017: 100 Years of Russian Revolution in Art and Aesthetics.
  A three-day conference at Färgfabriken, Södertörn University and Moderna Museet in Stockholm on October 19-21, 2017. >>
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• reviews

  1. Uprootedeness in the Polish-German Borderlands. The meaning of the transformation revised

     Dystopia’s Provocateurs: Peasants, State and Informality in the Polish-German Borderlands, Edyta Materka, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2017, 234 pages.

  2. The avant-gardist Ivan Aksionov. A life marked by ruptures and paradoxes

     Vid avantgardets korsvägar: Om Ivan Aksionov och den ryska modernismen [At the cross roads of the avant-garde: On Ivan Aksionov and Russian modernism, Lars Kleberg, Stockholm Natur & Kultur, 2015, 248 pages.

  3. Norm-breaking female soldiers. Russian revolutionary heores

     Låt oss dö som hjältar: kvinnliga soldater i revolutionens Ryssland [Let us die as heroes: Female soldiers in the Russia of the Revolution and the Civil War] Per Enerud, Carlsson Bokförlag 2014, 275 pages.

  4. Transnational and cosmopolitan families. Exploring diversity among migrants

     Viorela Ducu and Áron Telegdi-Csetri, Managing “Difference” in Eastern-European Transnational Families. Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, 2016, 190 pages.

  5. Russia, Norway and the Arctic. Challenges to security policies

     Geir Hønneland, Russia and the Arctic. Environment, Identity and Security political challenges. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2016, 205 pages; Tormod Heier og Anders Kjølberg (red.). Norge og Russland. Sikkerhets-politiske utfordringer i nordom-rådene. [Norway and Russia. Security Polices in the Northern Areas], Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2015, 208 pages.

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