To provide conceptual and theoretical tools that shed light on how the interaction of great and small powers - including both European powers and Russia - has historically shaped the Northern European region; 2) to apply the conceptual and theoretical tools to the contemporary context where supranational integration and regionalization both at the interstate and substate level challenge traditional great and small power dynamics; 3) to provide necessary prerequisites for the students for assessing and examining international dynamics in Europes north independently.

The English School perspective on Northern Europes international relations, in relation to other theories; northern Europes great power relations historically and in the contemporary context; institutional integration in the north; regionalisation in the north; small power dynamics in the north.

The course will be held during the CBU spring school in Petrozavodsk.

To be announced upon registration to the course.