Adapting to European Integration?

Following the restoration of Lithuanias independence and the dismantlement of the Soviet Union, the Kaliningrad region is now an exclave surrounded by EU member states. Departing from the analytical framework of Europeanisation, this book analyses the interaction between Russia and its Kaliningrad region on one side, and their European partners on the other side, thus assessing the regions potential to serve as Russias main opening to the EU. How do EU relations feed back into Kaliningrads domestic arena, or, put differently, does Kaliningrad become Europeanised at least to some extent? In particular, do EU standards and norms impact on the exclave and in what ways? The book not only offers thorough case studies of a number of policy areas affected by the EU (environmental, economics and higher education), it also refines our way of thinking about Europeanisation beyond Europe. -- .