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Book SynopsisThis volume offers up-to-date, comprehensive and theoretically-informed analysis of the effects of European integration on various aspects of contemporary political, social and economic life in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. -- .
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1. Introduction: adapting to European integration? Kaliningrad, Russia and the European Union - Stefan Gänzle and Guido Müntel
Part I: Analytical framework
2. Conceptualising Europeanisation in Eastern Europe: EU impact in ‘likely’ and ‘unlikely’ member states - Christoph Knill, Diana Pitschel and Michael W. Bauer
3. How do enclaves adjust to changes in the external environment? A theory of enclaves and the case of Kaliningrad - Evgeny Vinokurov
4. EU-Russia-Kaliningrad relations – a case of soft securitisation? - Holger Moroff
Part II: The policy framework: Kaliningrad in its domestic and international context
5. Multi-level governance and centralisation in Russia: implications for EU-Russia relations - Joan DeBardeleben
6. Federalism in Russia: opportunity or constraint for Kaliningrad? - Stefan Meister
7. Social identity and regionalisation: the case of Kaliningrad - Anna M. Karpenko
8. Kaliningrad in its neighbourhood – regional cooperation with Poland and Lithuania - Silke Schielberg
9. Regional organisations in the Northern Dimension area and Kaliningrad - Tobias Etzold
Part III: Empirical evidence: Kaliningrad and policy adaptation vis-à-vis the EU?
10. Economic policy - Evgeny Vinokurov
11. European principles in a Russian context: the transformation of social policy? - Vyacheslav Dykhanov
12. Environmental governance in Kaliningrad: lost opportunities - Guido Müntel
13. Public health policy: how does Kaliningrad adapt to the EU? - Alexandre Berlin and Greg Mestdag
14. Higher education in Kaliningrad - Stefan Gänzle, Stefan Meister and Conrad King
15. Integrated management of the EU-Russia common border: the Kaliningrad perspective - Alexey Ignatyev, Konstantin Shopin and Pyotr Shopin
Part IV: Conclusions
16. Summary: Kaliningrad and Europeanisation ‘à la carte’ - Stefan Gänzle and Guido Müntel
17. Russia: a case to revise the concept of Europeanisation - Gabriella Meloni
Postface. Coping with Stalin’s legacy and Putin’s autocracy: Kaliningrad between post-Soviet Russia and the European Union - Helmut Hubel
