COMPULSORY READING

• Avery Graham, Where will the EU's borders end? in Challenging Europe, Issue 16. Europe@50: back to the future. European Policy Centre, 2007, p. 101-109.
• Diez Thomas, The Paradoxes of Europe’s Borders. Comparative European Politics, Issue 4/2006, 235-252
• Engman Max, '"Norden" in European History', Gerald Stourzh (Hrsg.), Annäherungen and eine europäische Geschichtsschreibung (Wien 2002), 15-34.
• Garton Ash Timothy, Where on earth will Europe end? Europaeum Review, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (2003)
• Hagen J., Redrawing the imagined map of Europe: the rise and fall of the ‘center’. Political Geography Vol. 22, Issue 5 (June 2003), 489–517.
• Kenny Anthony, What is it to be European? Europeaum Review, Vol. 6, Issue 2/2005
• Eder Klaus, Europe's Borders. The Narrative Construction of the Boundaries of Europe. European Journal of Social Theory Vol. 9, Issue 2/2006, 255-271.
• Lewis Geoffrey, Why we must see Turkey as already European? Europaeum Review, Vol. 6, Issue 2/2005.
• Mayer Hartmut, Vogt Henri (eds.), A Responsible Europe? Ethical Foundations of EU External Affairs.

  *Especially articles The EU as a Regional Power: Extended Governance and Historical Responsibility by Kristi Raik and The EU, Russia and the Problem of Community by Pami Aalto.

• McCarthy Patrick (ed), Italy since 1945 (esp essay by J.HArper on Italian foreign policy), Oxford, OUP, 1995.
• Kuus Merje, Europe's eastern enlargement and the re-inscription of otherness in East-Central Europe. Progress in Human Geography Vol. 28, No. 4 /2004, 472-489.
• Moisio Sami (2007), Re-drawing the map of Europe: Spatial formation of the EU's eastern dimension. Geography Compass Vol. 1, No. 1/2007, 82-102.
• Newman David, The Lines That Continue to Separate Us: Borders in Our 'Borderless' World. Progress in Human Geography Vol. 30, No. 2/2006, 143-161.
• Olensen Thorsten Borring, Choosing or Refuting Europe? The Nordic Countries and the European Integration, Scandinavian Journal of History Vol. 25 No. 1–2/2000, 147–168.
• Sonne Lasse, Nordek. A Plan for Increased Nordic Economic Co-operation and Integration 1968–1970 (The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, Helsinki 2007), 50–73.

  *Chapter 3 of the book, provides a summary of main trade trends in the 1940s to 1960s in the Nordic countries and in their international economic relations

• Zielonka Jan, How New Enlarged Borders will Reshape the European Union. Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 39, No. 3 /2001.

• Andersson Lars Fredrik, Convergence and Structure of Trade: The Swedish-Finnish Case, Scandinavian Journal of History, No 1/2004, 1–25.
• Balibar Étienne, Nous, citoyens d’Europe ? Les frontières, l’État, le peuple, Paris, La Découverte, 2001
• Christiansen,T., Petito F., Tonra B., Fuzzy Politics Around Fuzzy Borders: The European Union’s Near abroad, Cooperation and Conflict, Vol. 35, No. 4/2004, 389-415
• Delanty Gerard, Borders in a Changing Europe: Dynamics of Openness and Closure, Comparative European Politics, Issue 4/2006, 183-202
• Eriksen Erik O., The EU – a cosmopolitan polity? Journal of European Public Policy, March 2006, 252-269
• Ojala Jari et al (eds), The Road to Prosperity. An Economic History of Finland. Finnish Literature Society 2006.
• Neumann Iver B., Uses of the Other: "The East" in European Identity Formation, 1999
• Newman D., Paasi A., Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world: boundary narratives in political geography. Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 22, No 2/1998, 186–207.
• Scandinavian Economic History No 2–3/2004
  *A theme issue dedicated on the Nordic countries’ trade liberalisation in the 1950s, it may be useful to familiarise oneself with at least one the country cases
• Servantie Alain, Sur les frontièrs de l’Europe et les fractures culturelles. (11.2.2004) Tägil Sven (ed.), Ethnicity and Nation Building in the Nordic World (London 1995)