Regional Foreign Relations in an Expanding Europe

Finland and 1990s Regional Co-Operation

Abstract

The article deals with cross-border cooperation between Finland and Russia in the 1990s. The geopolitical and economic upheaval of the era creates an interesting context for regional cooperation: as Finland built its relations with a new Russia, the nature of the economy became globalized and the importance of regions in relation to nation states grew. Likewise, tensions arose between transnational, national and regional actors. These tensions have been examined in the article through so-called societal logics, the most significant of which are the traditional logic of the state, the logic of the local community and the logic of the market.