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Energy & Geopolitics A quarterly scholarly journal and news magazine. December 2010. Vol III:4 COMMENTARY. At last, From the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) Russia must modernize Södertörn University, Stockholm BALTIC W O Rbalticworlds.com L D S Nuclear waste – an eternal question Pilgrimage to Chernobyl? ENERGY & GEOPOLITICS reports & reviews WEBER / PRIVATIZATION AND RE-NATIONALIZATION / WAR CRIMINALS / PRZEWORSKI: REWARDED AND MARGINALIZED 2short takes Management of a lost vision. Expanding Recreate – or make cultural layers visible election coverage F I IN A PALACE that symbolizes the mod- BW CONTINUES TO expand election cov- Z TF /5 ernist 1960s, the Wenner-Gren Center erage within CBEES’s focus area through P / in Stockholm, forty experts, activists, interviews, reports, and analyses on the KR . and researchers gathered in September Web site. Most recently the coverage FLIC (see BW III:2, pp. 2 and 4–8) to present has been on parliamentary elections in :// and discuss the issue of attitudes to a Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, and Latvia, as HTTP cultural heritage that to some degree well as the presidential election in Belarus / exists only as a vision, partly as a and municipal elections in Ukraine. AHLIN cultural landscape with elements of the D ENS influence of nature and politics across : J centuries. From the top floor of the A woeful HOTO 24-story skyscraper there is a stunning P view of the Royal National City Park, world record but under us there was a road con- struction project that has long threat- Lithuania has the highest suicide rate ened both the park and the adjacent in the world: of 100,000 Lithuanians, Bellevue Park. A compromise has been The foundations of the never completed Haga palace. 34 took their own life in 2009. This is reached, but the matter of managing three times higher than in Spain or the the conflict between rationality and then the King’s interests shifted towards a The symposium provided a glimpse United States, and eleven times higher aesthetics remains. classicist idiom after a trip to Italy. And into a period of currents of thought than in Greece. Before World War II, the The Wenner-Gren Center is an excla- after Gustav was assassinated in 1792, where the Italy of the classicist period, corresponding figure in Lithuania was mation point in the fairly low-key urban the grandiose plans for a magnificent with links to the Russian Empire, gave eight out of 100,000. During the Soviet landscape of Stockholm. It symbolizes palace were shelved; only the founda- way to an English, liberal, “softer” view period, suicide rates rose steadily and, the termination of a Swedish great tion remains, like fake ruins. of landscape, conveyed to Sweden in the 1980s, were up to 30; after inde- power epoch of mechanical engineer- by the English-Swede William Cham- pendence, they rose further, and from ing, but also the definitive end point of A CENTRAL QUESTION at the symposium bers, along with Fredrik Magnus Piper. 1994 to 1996 reached a peak of 46 King Gustav III’s 1700s dream of a royal was about restoration – to what? Should Piper’s magnificent but unfinished suicides per 100,000 inhabitants. road between the Royal Palace and a park, which in this case contains many Beskrivning [...] till en Ängelsk Lustpark In most countries, the suicide rate his “retreat” pavilion, and the English separate components, be managed [Description (...) for an English Leisure is higher in urban than in rural areas. gardens of Haga. by different authorities, be seen as a Park] was published in facsimile in 2004 In Lithuania, it is the reverse. In the palimpsest, where various cultural layers by the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts Lithuanian countryside, unemployment THE LOST VISION actually consists of remain visible? Or should an ideologi- in Swedish and English. The sympo- is high, as is alcohol consumption; and several layers of grand plans for the area cal era be recreated, as when long-lost sium talks will be published by The sanitary conditions are terrible (only around Lake Brunnsviken, now con- buildings are rebuilt to a presumed Committee for the Gustavian Park, an 25 percent of the rural population has nected to the Baltic Sea via a narrow original state? The symposium yielded independent body. ≈ running water). The mortality rate is 75 channel. The King’s architect, Fredrik no definite answer to the question, but percent higher in the country than in Magnus Piper, was heavily influenced by in reality one must deal with a physical thomas lundén urban areas. the idea of the English garden, but his place that for financial, emotional, and Professor of human geography, visions were only partially realized, and political reasons require compromises. Södertörn University Reference: www.cafebabel.com Income spread 7 Letters and figures. Income spread Additions and corrections 6 5 D9/D1 D9/D5 THE COVER OF BW III:3 ended up research presented in the essay on 4 D5/D1 somewhat disfigured because the last the cooperation between the Polish two letters in the word Solidarność Solidarność and the Swedish trade 3 were dropped because of a technical union movement was financed by the mishap. Some country information was Foundation for Baltic and East Euro- 2 also accidentally dropped from a bar pean Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen). ≈ chart (Figure 1, p. 7) in the article on 1 income disparities in Poland. The chart 0 is reproduced here in its proper form. Italy Spain Latvia Malta Turkey EstoniaIrelandGreece France Cyprus AustriaPoland Finland IcelandNorway BelgiumBulgaria DenmarkGermany Lithuania Hungary PortugalRomaniaSloveniaSlovakia Sweden Luxembourg Netherlands IT SHOULD ALSO BE noted that the Czech Republic Country United Kingdom BALTIC editorial 3 W O R L Dbalticworlds.com S Sponsored by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies Neither in the grammar A quarterly scholarly journal and news magazine. December 2010. Vol III:4 COMMENTARY. Russia From the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) must modernize Södertörn University, Stockholm BALTIC contents nor in the genes WORLDS D L R O W balticworlds.com Nuclear waste – an eternal question film Pilgrimage to Ch e r n o b y l ? he railway companies in Croatia, Serbia, 4 Into eternity and Slovenia have come together in a joint STENMARK venture in order to create faster rail traffic feature E N E R G Y & through the former Yugoslavian territory. GEOPOLITICS T katrin reports & reviews This is, according to The Economist (September 18, : WEBER / PRIVATIZATION AND RE-NATIONALIZATION / WAR CRIMINALS / PRZEWORSKI: REWARDED AND MARGINALIZED 6 Finnish nuclear energies 2010), yet another example of how companies in these Editor-in-chief countries have come to realize how small their do- Anders Björnsson research mestic markets are — and of how difficult things have Editor become with the customs barriers at state borders that illustration Ninna Mörner 10 Barsebäck & Ignalina previously did not exist. Publisher Prior to the Yugoslav civil wars, almost all freight Anu Mai Kõll reports between Turkey and Western Europe went through Editorial advisory board Yugoslavia, but since then it has been redirected to Thomas Lundén, Board 17 Marine operations in the other routes using other modes of transport, such as Chair, CBEES, Sari Baltic boat and car; only two percent of this trade is current- Autio–Sarasmo, ly transported by rail. Cargo 10, as the new company Aleksanteri Institute, misc. is called, will change this, is the idea. But the plans are Helsinki, Lars Johannsen, broader than that. Within a few years, a railway tunnel University of Aarhus, 20 Smoke over Moscow under the Bosporus will be opened. With this, a bottle- Ann-Cathrine Jungar, neck in trade between Asia and Europe will vanish. CBEES, Anu Mai Kõll, essay CBEES Jens E. Olesen, THE BERLIN–BAGHDAD LINE was Imperial Germany’s enough simply to make the resistance University of Greifswald, 22 Poland & Sweden dream before World War I. Within the foreseeable an object of raillery, since it is based on Barbara Törnquist–Plewa, future, a Berlin–Beijing route through Belgrade will be ignorance and prejudices, but it must be Lund University interview a realistic possibility in the Post–Cold War World. This taken seriously when it is preached from Editorial staff means that the classic silk and amber roads would established platforms. In France, the Na- Arne Bengtsson, Thomas 28 Asian values an excuse for be linked together and that Istanbul would again be tional Assembly passed a law decreeing Borchert, Copenhagen, authoritarianism the heart of the Mediterranean world, and — no mere that genocide of Armenians took place Brian Manning Delaney, rough guess — a counterweight to Brussels and Berlin almost a century ago, but, at the same Peter Johnsson, Warsaw, commentaries in the realm of power politics. Though hardly antici- time, the French government expels the Rebecka Lettevall, Peter pated, it would be entirely logical if the Turks took Romani in violation of European law. Lodenius, Helsinki, Anders 30 Hungary now greatest advantage of the breakup of the Balkans. The Swedish government is also getting Mellbourn, Susanne And it is perhaps not surprising that observers rid of Romani in an extralegal way, and Lundin, Kristoffer Morén 34 Russia, Scandinavia, think that neo-Ottoman sentiments can be registered runs a propaganda center that provides Translators and the West in the corridors of power in Ankara. The age of em- information about crimes against mino- Proper English pires need not be over just because so many of them rities that have taken place in the recent Proofreading reviews have gone under. past. Semantix Design 39 David Kirby on a festschrift IN ANY EVENT, with Eurasian integration, a lot of the IN THIS WAY, neo-racism also is part of Lars Rodvaldr, Sara mystique surrounding the idea of Europe will be normality and, with improved com- Bergfors/Oktavilla 43 Suspected war criminals peeled back.
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