We are pleased to announce that Ian Florin has published a new article in L’Espace Politique. This study explores how Europe has been mobilized as a geographical framework for conceptualizing and implementing transnational conservation initiatives between Finland, Norway, and Russia since the end of the Cold War.
The article challenges the idea that relations between the European Union and Russia are merely the product of two monolithic blocs driven solely by power dynamics. Instead, it highlights the diversity of channels through which these relations unfold and the role of local actors’ subjectivities. First, it examines how the development of the Green Belt was linked to the ambition of spreading European project values in post-Soviet Russia. Second, it analyzes how transnational environmental conservation is organized and operates in practice through decentralized actors.
The article is available online on the L’Espace Politique website.