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Baltic Sea Region Studiesat the University of Tartu
Dr Heiko PääboCentre for Baltic Studies
Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies
Baltic Sea RegionBaltic 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 macro-region strategy)
• In the middle of the process of active region-building
• Since 2014 changing security environment
IMRCEES at UTIMRCEES 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 EU-
Russian 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• 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, 1998-
2012• 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!WELCOME!