Transcript University of Tartu presentation to students 2015

Baltic Sea Region Studies
at the University of Tartu
Dr Heiko Pääbo
Centre for Baltic Studies
Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies
Baltic Sea Region
• The region includes all
countries around the
Baltic Sea + closely
cooperating neighbours
(e.g. Norway, Iceland)
• Almost the EU internal
sea (the first EU macroregion strategy)
• In the middle of the
process of active regionbuilding
• Since 2014 changing
security environment
IMRCEES at UT
• Various courses on politics,
history, international
relations, economics,
sociology, energy studies,
memory and identity studies
• International faculty
members and students
• Estonian and Russian
language classes
• Internship opportunities
• Research Centre for EURussian Studies
Study fields
• Security studies
• Regionalism and region-building, including comparative
dimension
• Energy policy, energy-security nexus
• Nationalism and ethnopolitics
• Critical geopolitics
• Sovereignty, de facto states
• Cross-border cooperation
• Identity politics and bordering practices
• Memory studies: politics of memory, social memory, cultural
memory
• E-voting, e-democracy
• Political and economic transition
• Religion and politics
• Urban semiotics
• Gender studies
Areas of research
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EU-Russian relations
Russian foreign policy
Foreign policy and security politics in the Baltic Sea region
EU’s Neighbourhood Policy and its Relationship with Russia
Political development in the Baltic Sea region
Political Transformation Process in East and Central Europe
Memory and identity conflicts in Russia, Baltic states
Transitional justice and reconciliation in the post-Soviet
societies
• Minorities and Human Rights in Post-Communist Countries
• International Law and Russia
Earlier MA theses
• Dwelling in Visaginas: the phenomenology of post-socialist town
• Towards a common identity? A comparative analysis of Estonian
integration
• Belarus's national narratives and representation of the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania in Belarus's history textbooks
• Re-defining the meaning of place: a discourse analysis of the
Hauptstadtdebatte
• Institutional barriers to investment climate of Armenia and Russia's role
in it
• The Effect of Hegemonic Masculinity in the Proportion of Women in
Post-Communist Parliaments: a Case Study of Estonia and Poland
• Lost and Found: Urban and Rural Spaces in Contemporary Estonian
Cinema
• Trauma, Memory and Victimhood: Estonia and the Holocaust, 19982012
• Europeanisation, Globalisation, and Unconventional Energy: A
Stepwise Comparison of Telecommuniations and Energy in Estonia and
Poland, 1990-2011
• See more: http://cbs.ut.ee/index.php/current/defended
MA thesis support
• Regular MA seminars (second half of
September, early October)
• October 31, research proposal
• November peer-reviewing and consulting
of research projects
• February-April presenting draft chapters
• Pre-defence in June (defence opportunity
in June)
• Defence early September
WELCOME!