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Study of Borders as Inspiration for Alternative Geopolitics of the European North

Study of Borders as Inspiration for Alternative Geopolitics of the European North. Ilkka Liikanen University of Eastern Finland. Rise of Border Studies Increased Interest in Borders - Why?. Great political changes of the 1990s End of Cold War, European Integration, globalization

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Study of Borders as Inspiration for Alternative Geopolitics of the European North

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  1. Study of Borders as Inspiration for Alternative Geopolitics of the European North Ilkka Liikanen University of Eastern Finland

  2. Rise of Border StudiesIncreased Interest in Borders - Why? Great political changes of the 1990s End of Cold War, European Integration, globalization Methodological reorientation in the study of culture and society, the so-called Linguistic turn in particular Discussion about post-modernism Borders not just lines on maps but products of constant re-definition Focus on social and linguistic construction of borders

  3. Border Regions in Transition Conferencesas an Arena of Renewal of Border Studies • 10 Border Regions in Transition Conferences • Germany 1994, Finland 1997, USA 1999, India 2000, Estonia 2001, Hungary 2004, Poland 2006, Israel 2007, Canada-USA 2008, Chile 2009 • Books and publications • Ganster, Sweedler, Scott & Eberwein 1997, Eskelinen, Liikanen & Oksa 1999, Ganster 2001, Berg & van Houtum 2003, Scott 2006, Alper & Brunet-Jailly 2008 • Main Journals • Journal of Borderland Studies • Geopolitics

  4. Deconstruction of Bordersas a Challenge to Geopolitics • New border studies: Borders not merely territorial lines, but socially constructed • Not just frontlines of security politics but symbols of social binding and exclusion necessary constituents of people’s lives (Anssi Paasi) • Process of bordering: focus on nation-building and identity politics • Not just nation-building from above but institutionalization of practices and discourses of political community formation (Craig Calhoun) • Integration, nationalism and regionalization • Changing scales of geopolitical bordering • Critical geopolitics: overcoming Cold War divides • Deconstructing securitization (Ole Wæver)

  5. The Territorial Shape of Finland since 1323The Boundaries of Finland in TransitionFennia 180: 1-2 (2002)

  6. Historical mapping in terms oflinear border line picturing geopolitical frontlines by projecting modern national territorial state back in history

  7. Three conceptual problems of mapping the borders of Finland as a National Territorial Statesince 1323 • Nationality • Territoriality • Statehood

  8. Hartmann SchedelLiber Chronicarum, Germania Magna, Dacia, Norwega Sweden Finland.Nürnberg 1493,

  9. The Symbolic Border LineOlaus MagnusCarta Marina et Descriptio Septentrionalivm Terrarvm.Venetsia 1539

  10. The natural borderAbraham OrteliusTheatrum Orbis Terrarum, Septentrionalium regionum descrip.Antwerpen 1579

  11. Before early modern period Concept of state not separated from that of the ruler – the Crown State administration organized through feudal relation – not through political structures linking population and the ruler

  12. The Invention of the Linear Border LineAndreas BureusOrbis arctoi nova et accurata delineatio auctore Andrea Bureo sueco.Stockholm 1626

  13. Mapping the border of the Treaty of Stolbova 1617(Detail from 1651 based on)Andreas Bureus, Orbis arctoi nova et accurata delineatio auctore Andrea Bureo sueco. Stockholm 1626

  14. Boundaries and the birth of modern state The idea of the centralized state - and the fixed border line –adopted as a common practice in Europe in the Middle of the 17th Century

  15. Europe of Borders Joannes Janssonius: Europa Exactime Descripta, 1645

  16. Finland and the Finnish stateThe shaping of the concept in the 18th and 19th C

  17. Johann Baptist Homann: Regni Sueciae in omnes suas Subjacentes Provincias accurate divisi Tabula Generalis. Nürnberg 1737.

  18. Russia in EuropeSamuel John Neele, Josiah Neele Minor Atlas, London 1814

  19. Karta öfverStor Furstendömet FinlandAugust Wilhelm EklundHelsingfors 1840

  20. Suomen Maantieteellinen SeuraSuomen Kartasto 1899, Suomi Finland.Helsinki 1899

  21. The Europe of Nation-states – and RevolutionBacon's standard map of Europeby G.W. Bacon, F.R.G.S., Weber Costello Co., [192-]

  22. The principle of nation-statesand Cold-war geopolitics Change of borders according to nation-state principle after World War I and the breakdown of multi-national dynastic empires During the Cold War borders stiffened by realities of geopolitics and supra-national principles of international law

  23. Europe of the Cold WarIron Curtain From Simple English Wikipediathe free encyclopedia that anyone can change

  24. Integration and post-national Borders?Europeanization and Cross-border RegionalizationNorthern Europe, AEBR 2007

  25. Changing Scales of Geopolitical Frontlines

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