Transnational cooperation: a network analysis of town twinning in the Baltic Sea region

• The patterns of cooperation between regions and urban spaces are no longer influenced, to the same extent, by national borders. Political integrative events changed the extent of transborder urban cooperation in the Baltic borderlands, a region that has undergone extensive changes. A social network analysis of cooperative ties in the form of town twinning indicates that the end of the Cold War strongly changed the network of town twinning in this region, whereas the effect of the various EU enlargement rounds seems to be more nuanced.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Statsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Political Science (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Transnational cooperation

town twinning

borderlands

Baltic Sea region

social network analysis

East-West divide

EU enlargement

critical perspective

sister-cities

city network

europe

world

state

governance

conflict

estonia

Area Studies

Arts & Humanities - Other Topics

hiller b

1984

scandinavian journal of history

v9

p221

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