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Papers by Bjarne Lindström
Olof M Janssons stiftelse, 2020
Acta Sociologica, Jul 1, 1981
Norden sags nu vara pa vag i riktning mot vad som skulle kunna kallas den tredje generationens re... more Norden sags nu vara pa vag i riktning mot vad som skulle kunna kallas den tredje generationens regionala utvecklingspolitik. Utgangspunkten for policyfornyelsen a ...
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, Jun 16, 2022
In this contribution, Åland's autonomy as a model for the protection of territorial minorities is... more In this contribution, Åland's autonomy as a model for the protection of territorial minorities is analysed and evaluated. The geopolitical background is today's Europe with, in general, quite strong state integration tendencies. The focus is on Åland's autonomy's ability to successfully deliver on the original promises regarding the greatest possible regional self-determination and language protection given at its inception in 1921 by the League of Nations and the Finnish state. Comparisons are made with similar European and Nordic autonomies. The conclusion is that Åland's position in international law and in the Finnish Constitution remains, thanks primary to its historical origin, relatively strong. However, two negative factors are identified: the severely limited de facto home rule, and the asymmetric partnership between the autonomy and the state. The contribution concludes with a number of lessons learned regarding the legal and political conditions for well-functioning and long-term sustainable autonomies within the framework of today's sovereign European and Nordic states.
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2000
The Aland archipelago with approximately 6500 islands and 25 500 inhabitants in the northern Balt... more The Aland archipelago with approximately 6500 islands and 25 500 inhabitants in the northern Baltic, constitutes a home rule territory with many peculiarities. Following its separation from the old motherland Sweden in conjunction with Russia’s conquest of Finland in 1809, the islands were demilitarized by the middle of the nineteenth century, and in 1921, as a consequence of a decision by the League of Nations (LN), political autonomy was internationally guaranteed (Modeen, 1973; Lindholm, 1996).
This note discusses research strategies for an investigation of urban development and planning in... more This note discusses research strategies for an investigation of urban development and planning in the Stockholm region during the period 1945-1980. The intellectual point of departure for this investigation is in polemics with traditional planning theory. As opposed to that tradition we believe that you can say very little about the role of official planning if you don't study its effects. In order to deal with this problem you have to have a clear understanding of the phenomenon of urban development. Official planning is simultaneously a part of, shaped by, and a mechanism in urban development. This proposition leads to the field of urban research, a field which internationally has undergone flourishing theoretical reorientations during the last decade. By underlining and commenting on central problems in urban research, we hope to lay foundations for a broader discussion of different strategies for approaching the study of the city under capitalism.
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights
In this contribution, Åland’s autonomy as a model for the protection of territorial minorities is... more In this contribution, Åland’s autonomy as a model for the protection of territorial minorities is analysed and evaluated. The geopolitical background is today’s Europe with, in general, quite strong state integration tendencies. The focus is on Åland’s autonomy’s ability to successfully deliver on the original promises regarding the greatest possible regional self-determination and language protection given at its inception in 1921 by the League of Nations and the Finnish state. Comparisons are made with similar European and Nordic autonomies. The conclusion is that Åland’s position in international law and in the Finnish Constitution remains, thanks primary to its historical origin, relatively strong. However, two negative factors are identified: the severely limited de facto home rule, and the asymmetric partnership between the autonomy and the state. The contribution concludes with a number of lessons learned regarding the legal and political conditions for well-functioning and l...
Lessons from the Political Economy of Small Islands, 2000
The Aland archipelago with approximately 6500 islands and 25 500 inhabitants in the northern Balt... more The Aland archipelago with approximately 6500 islands and 25 500 inhabitants in the northern Baltic, constitutes a home rule territory with many peculiarities. Following its separation from the old motherland Sweden in conjunction with Russia’s conquest of Finland in 1809, the islands were demilitarized by the middle of the nineteenth century, and in 1921, as a consequence of a decision by the League of Nations (LN), political autonomy was internationally guaranteed (Modeen, 1973; Lindholm, 1996).
A…land Islands, a small Finnish island region with its own governmental powers, is rapidly aging ... more A…land Islands, a small Finnish island region with its own governmental powers, is rapidly aging together with its neighboring regions in mainland Finland and Sweden. The demographic momentum affects its labor market in various ways. Aging will keep exits from labor market high in the near future while the total size of labor force will barely grow. Rising old-age dependency increases the demand for social and health services which have been mainly provided by the public sector, which in turn strain the public finances. However, positive net migration boosted by favorable employment prospects has helped keep the population growth on a healthy annual rate of 0.5 to 1 percent. The economic development prospects of A…land are analyzed by means of an imperfect competition, recursive-dynamic computable general equilibrium model. The future changes are gauged by means of three scenarios: Base, Growth and Deceleration with varying assumptions regarding the competitive pressures, structure ...
Norden sags nu vara pa vag i riktning mot vad som skulle kunna kallas den tredje generationens re... more Norden sags nu vara pa vag i riktning mot vad som skulle kunna kallas den tredje generationens regionala utvecklingspolitik. Utgangspunkten for policyfornyelsen a ...
Ã…land, a small autonomous island province of Finland with 28,000 inhabitants, is base for com... more Ã…land, a small autonomous island province of Finland with 28,000 inhabitants, is base for commercial shipping employing - in and outside Ã…land - about 6 100 people, onboard and ashore, with an annual gross salary volume of 243 million euros and capital income of 275 million euros (2009). In the same year, gross sales of the shipping sector amounted to more than 870 million euros. These are impressive figures in relation to the total labour market and economy of Ã…land. Ã…land is one of the few places within EU, where tax-free sales onboard are still allowed. The right to tax-free was enabled by Ã…land's permanent exemption from the EU tax rules written in the Finland's EU-accession treaty. Another important factor for shipping is the EU-sanctioned system of subsidies for crewing costs that decreases the manning cost of domestic seafarers. Apart from measuring the size and effects of the Ã…land shipping cluster, we analyse the outcome of different scenario...
Built Environment
The very concept of 'northernness' is now inscribed in Union documents. Was Finland merel... more The very concept of 'northernness' is now inscribed in Union documents. Was Finland merely interested in launching the Northern Dimension simply to make the EU more 'Finnish', or does it signal an end to the Nordic countries' previous sense of isolation and of occupying an outsider role, which has characterized Nordic-Central European relations for so long?
Springer eBooks, 2003
The fall of the Berlin Wall, the German reunification and the collapse of the Soviet Union leadin... more The fall of the Berlin Wall, the German reunification and the collapse of the Soviet Union leading to the creation of the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania suddenly created entirely new conditions for the political, economic and social development in the North European and Baltic Sea area, i.e. the NEBI area.1 The mental map of the area was suddenly widened to encompass the entire region rather than just the Western or the Eastern half.2 Optimism and newly awakened visions of a bright future pointed to a Baltic region that was characterised by fast economic development, co-operation, trade, investments and a free flow of people and ideas. The mediaeval network of Hanseatic cities was launched as a symbol — and sometimes even as the core — of the coming integration. Like the rest of Europe, the NEBI region was to re-emerge ‘whole and free.’
In its November woo Enlargement Strategy Paper (Commission 8 November 2000), the EU Commission ex... more In its November woo Enlargement Strategy Paper (Commission 8 November 2000), the EU Commission expressed its belief that enlargement of the European Union with several new member states mainly from Central and Eastern Europe was imminent — with the end of 2002 being set as the date of the first entries into the Union.1 Later developments have dampened this optimism somewhat. Nevertheless it is still the official belief that enlargement is close at hand. At its meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, 15–16 June 2001 the European Council spoke of breakthroughs in the negotiations for membership and predicted a successful conclusion of the enlargement. Despite the Irish referendum rejecting the Nice Treaty of December 2000 intended to get the EU institutions ready for enlargement, the EU heads of government remained confident that the enlargement process would prove ‘irreversible.’ As pointed out in the Presidency Conclusions from the Gothenburg Summit, a number of the applicants were far ahead of others in terms of meeting the specific requirements of the EU acquis, nevertheless even the laggards among the candidates might count on assistance to reach their objectives. Overall the EU was to apply a ‘principle of differentiation’ in its dealings with the Central and Eastern European countries, allowing the best-prepared countries to move more quickly (EU Commission 2001b).
... independent referendum. 6 A further anomaly in the area is presented by the strange Russian e... more ... independent referendum. 6 A further anomaly in the area is presented by the strange Russian enclave of Kalin-ingrad, which is not contiguous with the rest of the Russian Federation (Pacuk and Palmowski in this volume). The ...
Springer eBooks, 1999
The above is the verbatim contents of item 109 of the Austrian EU Presidency’s conclusions from t... more The above is the verbatim contents of item 109 of the Austrian EU Presidency’s conclusions from the European Council meeting in Vienna on 11–12 December 1998. And except for a few words under item 110 — on spent nuclear fuel and waste in north-western Russia — this was what the Presidency had to report under the much anticipated heading of ‘Northern Dimension’ (European Commission 1998b).
Olof M Janssons stiftelse, 2020
Acta Sociologica, Jul 1, 1981
Norden sags nu vara pa vag i riktning mot vad som skulle kunna kallas den tredje generationens re... more Norden sags nu vara pa vag i riktning mot vad som skulle kunna kallas den tredje generationens regionala utvecklingspolitik. Utgangspunkten for policyfornyelsen a ...
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, Jun 16, 2022
In this contribution, Åland's autonomy as a model for the protection of territorial minorities is... more In this contribution, Åland's autonomy as a model for the protection of territorial minorities is analysed and evaluated. The geopolitical background is today's Europe with, in general, quite strong state integration tendencies. The focus is on Åland's autonomy's ability to successfully deliver on the original promises regarding the greatest possible regional self-determination and language protection given at its inception in 1921 by the League of Nations and the Finnish state. Comparisons are made with similar European and Nordic autonomies. The conclusion is that Åland's position in international law and in the Finnish Constitution remains, thanks primary to its historical origin, relatively strong. However, two negative factors are identified: the severely limited de facto home rule, and the asymmetric partnership between the autonomy and the state. The contribution concludes with a number of lessons learned regarding the legal and political conditions for well-functioning and long-term sustainable autonomies within the framework of today's sovereign European and Nordic states.
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2000
The Aland archipelago with approximately 6500 islands and 25 500 inhabitants in the northern Balt... more The Aland archipelago with approximately 6500 islands and 25 500 inhabitants in the northern Baltic, constitutes a home rule territory with many peculiarities. Following its separation from the old motherland Sweden in conjunction with Russia’s conquest of Finland in 1809, the islands were demilitarized by the middle of the nineteenth century, and in 1921, as a consequence of a decision by the League of Nations (LN), political autonomy was internationally guaranteed (Modeen, 1973; Lindholm, 1996).
This note discusses research strategies for an investigation of urban development and planning in... more This note discusses research strategies for an investigation of urban development and planning in the Stockholm region during the period 1945-1980. The intellectual point of departure for this investigation is in polemics with traditional planning theory. As opposed to that tradition we believe that you can say very little about the role of official planning if you don't study its effects. In order to deal with this problem you have to have a clear understanding of the phenomenon of urban development. Official planning is simultaneously a part of, shaped by, and a mechanism in urban development. This proposition leads to the field of urban research, a field which internationally has undergone flourishing theoretical reorientations during the last decade. By underlining and commenting on central problems in urban research, we hope to lay foundations for a broader discussion of different strategies for approaching the study of the city under capitalism.
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights
In this contribution, Åland’s autonomy as a model for the protection of territorial minorities is... more In this contribution, Åland’s autonomy as a model for the protection of territorial minorities is analysed and evaluated. The geopolitical background is today’s Europe with, in general, quite strong state integration tendencies. The focus is on Åland’s autonomy’s ability to successfully deliver on the original promises regarding the greatest possible regional self-determination and language protection given at its inception in 1921 by the League of Nations and the Finnish state. Comparisons are made with similar European and Nordic autonomies. The conclusion is that Åland’s position in international law and in the Finnish Constitution remains, thanks primary to its historical origin, relatively strong. However, two negative factors are identified: the severely limited de facto home rule, and the asymmetric partnership between the autonomy and the state. The contribution concludes with a number of lessons learned regarding the legal and political conditions for well-functioning and l...
Lessons from the Political Economy of Small Islands, 2000
The Aland archipelago with approximately 6500 islands and 25 500 inhabitants in the northern Balt... more The Aland archipelago with approximately 6500 islands and 25 500 inhabitants in the northern Baltic, constitutes a home rule territory with many peculiarities. Following its separation from the old motherland Sweden in conjunction with Russia’s conquest of Finland in 1809, the islands were demilitarized by the middle of the nineteenth century, and in 1921, as a consequence of a decision by the League of Nations (LN), political autonomy was internationally guaranteed (Modeen, 1973; Lindholm, 1996).
A…land Islands, a small Finnish island region with its own governmental powers, is rapidly aging ... more A…land Islands, a small Finnish island region with its own governmental powers, is rapidly aging together with its neighboring regions in mainland Finland and Sweden. The demographic momentum affects its labor market in various ways. Aging will keep exits from labor market high in the near future while the total size of labor force will barely grow. Rising old-age dependency increases the demand for social and health services which have been mainly provided by the public sector, which in turn strain the public finances. However, positive net migration boosted by favorable employment prospects has helped keep the population growth on a healthy annual rate of 0.5 to 1 percent. The economic development prospects of A…land are analyzed by means of an imperfect competition, recursive-dynamic computable general equilibrium model. The future changes are gauged by means of three scenarios: Base, Growth and Deceleration with varying assumptions regarding the competitive pressures, structure ...
Norden sags nu vara pa vag i riktning mot vad som skulle kunna kallas den tredje generationens re... more Norden sags nu vara pa vag i riktning mot vad som skulle kunna kallas den tredje generationens regionala utvecklingspolitik. Utgangspunkten for policyfornyelsen a ...
Ã…land, a small autonomous island province of Finland with 28,000 inhabitants, is base for com... more Ã…land, a small autonomous island province of Finland with 28,000 inhabitants, is base for commercial shipping employing - in and outside Ã…land - about 6 100 people, onboard and ashore, with an annual gross salary volume of 243 million euros and capital income of 275 million euros (2009). In the same year, gross sales of the shipping sector amounted to more than 870 million euros. These are impressive figures in relation to the total labour market and economy of Ã…land. Ã…land is one of the few places within EU, where tax-free sales onboard are still allowed. The right to tax-free was enabled by Ã…land's permanent exemption from the EU tax rules written in the Finland's EU-accession treaty. Another important factor for shipping is the EU-sanctioned system of subsidies for crewing costs that decreases the manning cost of domestic seafarers. Apart from measuring the size and effects of the Ã…land shipping cluster, we analyse the outcome of different scenario...
Built Environment
The very concept of 'northernness' is now inscribed in Union documents. Was Finland merel... more The very concept of 'northernness' is now inscribed in Union documents. Was Finland merely interested in launching the Northern Dimension simply to make the EU more 'Finnish', or does it signal an end to the Nordic countries' previous sense of isolation and of occupying an outsider role, which has characterized Nordic-Central European relations for so long?
Springer eBooks, 2003
The fall of the Berlin Wall, the German reunification and the collapse of the Soviet Union leadin... more The fall of the Berlin Wall, the German reunification and the collapse of the Soviet Union leading to the creation of the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania suddenly created entirely new conditions for the political, economic and social development in the North European and Baltic Sea area, i.e. the NEBI area.1 The mental map of the area was suddenly widened to encompass the entire region rather than just the Western or the Eastern half.2 Optimism and newly awakened visions of a bright future pointed to a Baltic region that was characterised by fast economic development, co-operation, trade, investments and a free flow of people and ideas. The mediaeval network of Hanseatic cities was launched as a symbol — and sometimes even as the core — of the coming integration. Like the rest of Europe, the NEBI region was to re-emerge ‘whole and free.’
In its November woo Enlargement Strategy Paper (Commission 8 November 2000), the EU Commission ex... more In its November woo Enlargement Strategy Paper (Commission 8 November 2000), the EU Commission expressed its belief that enlargement of the European Union with several new member states mainly from Central and Eastern Europe was imminent — with the end of 2002 being set as the date of the first entries into the Union.1 Later developments have dampened this optimism somewhat. Nevertheless it is still the official belief that enlargement is close at hand. At its meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, 15–16 June 2001 the European Council spoke of breakthroughs in the negotiations for membership and predicted a successful conclusion of the enlargement. Despite the Irish referendum rejecting the Nice Treaty of December 2000 intended to get the EU institutions ready for enlargement, the EU heads of government remained confident that the enlargement process would prove ‘irreversible.’ As pointed out in the Presidency Conclusions from the Gothenburg Summit, a number of the applicants were far ahead of others in terms of meeting the specific requirements of the EU acquis, nevertheless even the laggards among the candidates might count on assistance to reach their objectives. Overall the EU was to apply a ‘principle of differentiation’ in its dealings with the Central and Eastern European countries, allowing the best-prepared countries to move more quickly (EU Commission 2001b).
... independent referendum. 6 A further anomaly in the area is presented by the strange Russian e... more ... independent referendum. 6 A further anomaly in the area is presented by the strange Russian enclave of Kalin-ingrad, which is not contiguous with the rest of the Russian Federation (Pacuk and Palmowski in this volume). The ...
Springer eBooks, 1999
The above is the verbatim contents of item 109 of the Austrian EU Presidency’s conclusions from t... more The above is the verbatim contents of item 109 of the Austrian EU Presidency’s conclusions from the European Council meeting in Vienna on 11–12 December 1998. And except for a few words under item 110 — on spent nuclear fuel and waste in north-western Russia — this was what the Presidency had to report under the much anticipated heading of ‘Northern Dimension’ (European Commission 1998b).