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Magne Eiks is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Studies, Sogn og Fjordane College. His research interests include voluntary organizations, cultural policy, social policy and social work. Among his publications are State, Culture and Decentralisation: A Comparative Study of Decentralisation Processes in Nordic Cultural Policy (with Auli Irjala, 1996) and the chapter 'New Public Management and the Breakthrough of a Contract Culture at the Local Level in Norway' in Lekmannstyre under press, ed. by Anne Lise Fimreite et al. (with Per Selle, 2001).
Dariusz Gawin is Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He specializes in political philosophy and history of Polish political thought, and is currently working on the evolution of the intellectual leftist thought in Poland between 1956 and 1989. He has recently edited Lekcja Sierpnia: Dziedzictwo 'Solidarnoci' po dwudziestu latach (2002) and Homo eligens: Spoleczestwo wiadomego wyboru (1999)
Norbert Gtz is Assistant Professor of Nordic History at the University of Greifswald. His research interests are international relations, civil society, political ideologies and the welfare state. Recent publications include 'The Nordic Sphere-Norden: Structures That Do Not Make a Region' in European Review of History (2003, forthcoming) and the chapter 'Schweden: Korporatisrmus und Netzwerkkultur' in Verbnde und Verbandssysteme in Westeuropa, ed, by Werner Reutter and Peter Rtters (2001).
Jrg Hackmann is Assistant Professor of Eastern European History at the University of Greifswald. He has specialized in the historiography and historical cultures of Central and Eastern Europe. His recent research focuses on the association movement and nation-building in the East Baltic region. Recent publications include 'Ethnos oder Region? Probleme der baltischen Historiographie im 20. Jahr-hundert' in Zeitschrift fr Ostmitteleuropaforschung (2001) and 'Mapping Baltic History: The Concept of North Eastern Europe' in Journal of Baltic Studies (2002).
Ann-Katrin Hatje is Associate Professor at the Department of Historical Studies, Ume University. Her research is oriented towards contemporary and welfare history. She has published books on family policy and child day-care, including such works as the dissertation Befolkningsfrgan och vlfrden: Debatten om familjepolitik och nativitetskning under 1930- och 1940-talen (1974) and Frn treklang till triangeldrama: Barntrdgrden som ett kvinnligt samhllsprojekt under 18801940-talen (1999).
Helmut Heiss holds the Chair for Private Law, Comparative Law and Harmonization of Laws in the Baltic Sea Area at the University of Greifswald. His publications include the edited volumes Brckenschlag zwischen den Rechtskulturen des Ostseeraums (2001) and Zivilrechtsreform im Baltikum (forthcoming).
Pertti Joenniemi is Senior Research Fellow and Programme Director for Baltic-Nordic Studies at Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI), now part of the Institute for International Studies (IIS). His research interests are security and regionalism in the Baltic Sea region. He is editor of the volume The Nordic Peace (with Clive Archer, 2003) and co-editor of the NEBI Yearbook (North European and Baltic Sea Integration).
Claudia-Yvette Matthes is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. Her research interests focus on institutional change and transition policies in Central and Eastern Europe. Publications include 'Das politische System Polens' in Die politischen Systeme Osteuropas, ed. by Wolfgang Ismayr (2002) and 'Politisches und Rechtssystem Lettlands' in Handbuch Baltikum heute, ed. by Heike Graf and Manfred Kerner (1998).
Kazimierz Musia is Lecturer in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Gdask. Currently he works as a research fellow and project administrator at the Alfried Rrupp Institute for Advanced Study in Greifswald. His recent research topics cover integration and educational cooperation in the Baltic Sea region. He has edited the volume Approaching Knowledge Society in the Baltic Sea Region (2002), and authored the article 'Poland as a Baltic Sea State in the Process of Joining the EU', in EU Enlargement and Beyond; The Baltic States and Russia, ed. by Helmut Hubel (2002).
Art is Pabriks is Associate Professor at Vidzeme University College. His main research interests are ethnicity and republicanism Publications include Latvia: The Challenges of Change (with Aldis Purs, 2002) and Occupational Representation and Ethnic Discrimination in Latvia (2002).
Walter Rothholz is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Greifswald and a.o. Professor at the Free University Berlin. His current research focuses on political culture and democracy in the Baltic Sea region. Publications include Die politische Kultur Norwegens: Zur Entwicklung einer wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Demokratie (1986) and 'Die Universalisierung westlicher Politik und Zivilreligion' in Ende der Geschichte oder Kampf der Kultur en, ed. by Volker Pesch (1997).
Carsten Schymik is a Doctoral Candidate in Political Science at the Humboldt University Berlin and a member of the 'Research Group on Northern European Politics' (FOR:N). His publications include 'Auerparlamentarische Opposition gegen die EU in Skandinavien' in Nordeuropaforum (2001), and 'Vier Jahre Mitwirkung des Ausschusses der Regionen in der Europaischen Union 1994-1998' in Gegenwartskunde (1999).
Per Selle is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen and Senior Researcher at the Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies in Bergen. His research interests include voluntary organizations, political parties, political culture and environmental policy. Among his main publications on civil society are Government and Voluntary Organization: A Relational Perspective (with Stein Kuhnle, 1992, second edition 1995), and Det nye organisasjonssamfunnet: Demokrati i omforming (with Dag Wollebk, 2002).
