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{"title":"Baltic democracies: re-configuring media environments and civic agency","authors":"Auksė Balčytienė, Kristina Juraitė","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2117833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2117833","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Though journalism remains relevant in many European democracies, it is not the dominant source of news for many groups of people. Newly arising dynamic mediated communication ecosystems run on user engagement and information choices, which require informed agency. Training of such a capability is assumed on the side of professional journalism. In the small Baltic nations, however, market-driven problems act as a permanent risk factor against both the democratic functioning of media and engaging the citizenry. The Baltic publics experience the deficiency of public arenas for their exercises in trust and confidence, and exposures of feelings of social solidarity.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"565 - 585"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43698783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Discovering the regional innovation potential for Smart Specialization: the case of the two Baltic Sea Regions","authors":"Živilė Gedminaitė-Raudonė, Rita Lankauskien​ė, S. Virkkala, Å. Mariussen, Antti Mäenpää","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2109698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2109698","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The EU Commission launched an innovation strategy called Smart Specialization in 2012. Smart Specialization is a framework for developing policies unleashing place-based economic potential. Evaluations, however, have shown that appropriate innovation policy decisions are difficult. There is an innovation policy potential that must first be unleashed. This article shows how the application of a method – connectivity analysis – developed through a Baltic Sea Region project ‘LARS – Learning Among Regions on Smart Specialization,’ can be used to support Smart Specialization. The method includes transnational comparisons and targeted policy recommendations for public sector institutions operating within various institutional frameworks and different clusters. It consists of instruments (gaps and factors) measuring collaboration through interviews of 141 quadruple-helix stakeholders across eight Baltic Sea regions.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"467 - 489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47597469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Resilience of national media systems: Baltic media in the global network environment","authors":"Ragne Kõuts-Klemm, Anda Rožukalne, Deimantas Jastramskis","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2103162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2103162","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article aims to analyze the resilience of Baltic media systems in the global network environment. Resilience is here defined as media systems’ ability to survive despite the efflux of resources and loss of audiences’ attention and trust, and as the capacity to support a reliable, transparent, and diverse information sphere for the functioning of democracy. Using media market data from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, the changes in the media during the last three decades will be analyzed. The analysis concludes that the implementation of media policy currently does not guarantee the resilience of small countries’ media systems.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"543 - 564"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46905354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Discrimination or explained differences? Individual and school-level effects explaining the minority achievement gap","authors":"Triin Lauri, Kaire Põder, Nikolai Kunitsõn","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2103579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2103579","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study is motivated by the distinctive outcome of the minority achievement gap in Estonia and Latvia, countries with similar legacies and socio-economic development. We have four sub-groups of schools involving pairs of instructing languages: Estonian and Russian in Estonia, and Latvian and Russian in Latvia. All four are above average performers according to international comparisons. Still, our data show that a remarkable achievement gap between majority and minority students exists only in Estonia. We employ the Oaxaca–Blinder twofold decomposition technique to explore the factors behind the minority achievement gap (MAG). We are able to explain almost half of the gap in Estonia by peer effects and the larger concentration of immigrants in minority schools. In Latvia, on the contrary, the average peer effect is positive in minority schools. Still, regarding the essence of the unexplained gap, our results remain inconclusive.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"553 - 580"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45523537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How Estonian village structures have evolved: a study into the morphological form of the villages of Paduvere and Vaimastvere from the 1700s to the present day","authors":"Minea Kaplinski-Sauk, N. Nutt, Zenia Kotval","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2100432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2100432","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The following article focuses on the morphological development of Estonian village structures during the last several hundred years using a comparative qualitative map analysis based on historical maps and plans. The results show that the different stages in the genesis of Estonian village structures can be described by distinct characteristics that are still distinguishable in modern landscapes. Understanding how these forms have changed throughout history has the potential to guide future spatial planning decisions in the Estonian countryside.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"309 - 333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48747066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Small Baltic states and the Euro-Atlantic security community","authors":"L. Johannsen","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2097790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2097790","url":null,"abstract":"tives of Brussels’ eastern neighbors and the progressive decline of the Eastern Partnership as an effective multilateral framework. Overall, when navigating through the different chapters and sections of the handbook, the need for a more harmonized structure emerges, as it could well balance the richness and diversity of the various contributions. In general, I feel that the Routledge Handbook of EU–Russia Relations succeeds in its stated ambition to ‘offer a comprehensive overview of the changing dynamics in relations between the EU and Russia’ (iii), despite the necessary caveats and imperfect match with a fast-changing geopolitical reality. The volume is highly recommended – and is possibly a necessary complement for scholars, students, researchers, policymakers, and journalists. Overall, Romanova and Maxine and the contributing authors succeed in developing a rich, diverse, and well-crafted guide to EU–Russia relations that avoids the risks of oversimplification or redundancy.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"487 - 489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43588880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The glass wall: lives on the Baltic frontier","authors":"B. McKenzie","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2097792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2097792","url":null,"abstract":"present Baltic Sea subsystem; nevertheless, scholars of Nordic security will be interested in this glance at the opposite shore of the Baltic Sea. No matter how you choose to organize a volume, there will always be both drawbacks and advantages. In this case, the choice to organize the analysis into chapters that mix event history with the historical development of each of the main actors’ perspectives and interests results in some repetition and, at times, a confusing script. This organization, however, allows for the chapters to be read selectively if one is only interested in a certain aspect, rather than the analysis as a whole. Moreover, the book is not always a good read. Some sections flow freely, but in others, sentences are too short and finish abruptly. A second proofread would have been needed. The book may be recommended as a basis for understanding the development of the Euro-Atlantic security community. At present, this is going through yet another change with the Russian–Ukrainian war and the likely entrance of Sweden and Finland into NATO. Since both Sweden and Finland, as small states, are part of the Baltic Sea security subregion, this is likely to have an impact on the Baltic states. Scholars of international relations will take an interest in the implicit theoretical framework that can be extended to the relationship between Ukraine and Russia before the outbreak of the war. Scholars of Baltic studies will also take an interest in the book for the perspective on Baltic vulnerabilities, and for those with political inclinations, the book offers interesting policy suggestions likely to be debated.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"491 - 492"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42561062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nuclear waste management in Lithuania and Sweden: responses to contingent historical and political circumstances","authors":"A. Stsiapanau","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2096655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2096655","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Baltic Sea region is the site of a considerable number of nuclear power stations. Although predominantly operational, several have been decommissioned and new ones are in the planning stage. The volume of nuclear waste in the region continues to increase, while the development of national nuclear waste programs differs in each country. This article investigates national framings of nuclear waste issues in Lithuania and Sweden in order to understand their articulation in response to particular historical and political circumstances. Following the technopolitical framework, this article engages with the argument that nuclear industry developments create both incentives and constraints for nuclear waste programs that foster various forms of legacies; historical, technological, or political. Firstly, this article sets out the relation between the nuclear industry and nuclear waste issues in each country. Secondly, it reveals how decommissioning policies in both countries streamed nuclear waste programs developed in dissimilar sociopolitical contexts. The final section presents empirical details about constraints and incentives that become visible through analysis of the impact of nuclear policy legacies and continuities on waste regimes, including regulatory, licensing and participation practices, research programs, and technology innovation.","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"459 - 481"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41541367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"List of books received and recent publications","authors":"Aivars Karlovs, J. Paleckis, istorijos dramoje, A. Toots","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2097793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2097793","url":null,"abstract":"Aivars Karlovs: nepakļaušanās un uzbūves spēks tēlniecībā, by Ruta Čaupova, Riga, Neputns, 2022, 128 pp., €25.00, ISBN 978-9934-601-37-8 Ameerika sajand: USA ja Eesti suhete sada aastat, edited by Kaarel Piirimäe and Mart Kuldkepp, Tartu, Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2022, 312 pp., €19.00, ISBN 978-9949-03900-5 Antanas Smetona ir Justas Paleckis istorijos dramoje: prezidento vairuotojo užrašai, by Alfonsas Eidintas, Vilnius, Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras, 2022, 632 pp., €34.00, ISBN 978-5-420-01847-7 Aspazija. Rainis. Nams, by Gaida Jablovska, Riga, Madris, 2022, 264 pp., €16.00, ISBN 978-9984-31-221-7 Balancing between national unity and “multiculturalism”: national minorities in Lithuania and Finland 1918–1939, by Kari Alenius and Saulius Kaubrys, Leiden, Brill, 2022, 264 pp., €92.00, ISBN 978-3-506-79278-5 (hbk), 978-3-657-79278-8 (ebook) Defining Latvia: recent explorations in history, culture, and politics, edited by Michael Loader, Siobhán Hearne, and Matthew Kott, Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022, 270 pp., €71.00, ISBN 978-963-386-445-6 Eesti ajalugu: kronoloogia, by Ain Mäesalu et al., Tallinn, Tänapäev, 2021, 531 pp., €30.00, ISBN 978-9916-17-166-0 Eesti kalaluule antoloogia, edited by Vladislav Koržets, Tallinn, Sõnavald, 2021, 728 pp., €40.00, ISBN 978-9949-9843-5-0 Eesti ohvitser Saksamaal ja Ungaris 1936–1940: Eesti ohvitser Euroopas, edited by Merike Jürjo, Tallinn, Nornberg, 2022, 176 pp., €23.00, ISBN 978-9916-9782-0-7 Euroopa Liidu mõjuka välispoliitika võimalikkusest, by Urmas Paet, Tallinn, Varrak, 2021, 288 pp., €27.00, ISBN 978-9985-3-5339-4 Finno-ugorskii martirolog zhertv gosudarstvennogo terrora v SSSR, Vol 7: Ėstontsy, Pt. 2: N–Ya, edited by Nikolai Antonov, Tallinn, Eesti Mälu Instituut, 2021, 467 pp., €22.00, ISBN 978-9949-9-6875-6 Holokaustas Lietuvos provincijoje 1941 metais, by Arūnas Bubnys, Vilnius, Margi raštai, 2021, 624 pp., €14.00, ISBN 978-9986-09-516-3 Jehudit: pasaulis galėtų būti toks gražus, by Aneta Anra, Vilnius, Odilė, 2021, 240 pp., €9.00, ISBN 978-609-8222-37-1 Kirjandus ja alkeemia, by Paavo Matsin, Viljandi, Lepp ja Nagel, 2021, 152 pp., €16.00, ISBN 978-9916-9719-0-1 Kultūra čia ir dabar: penkios esė, by Arūnas Sverdiolas, Vilnius, Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2021, 192 pp., €10.00, ISBN 978-609-8231-29-8 Latvian Displaced Persons in WWII Germany, by Gunars Fricsons, Riga, Vesta LK, 2022, 176 pp., €27.00, ISBN 978-9934-511-94-3 Latvijas kultūras vesture, edited by Ojārs Spārītis, Riga, Jumava, 2021, 752 pp., €53.00, ISBN 978-9934-20-479-1 JOURNAL OF BALTIC STUDIES 2022, VOL. 53, NO. 3, 491–493 https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2097793","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"491 - 493"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43226098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Routledge handbook of EU–Russia relations: structures, actors, issues","authors":"Stefano Braghiroli","doi":"10.1080/01629778.2022.2097789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2022.2097789","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51813,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Baltic Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"483 - 485"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44468461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}