Publications

Presentation by Stephen Dewar, Team Leader of EuropeAid Project “Administrative Capacity Building for Kaliningrad Oblast” at the “Partner regions forum” held in Kaliningrad on 1 October 2009.

"Special Economic Zone in Kaliningrad as a Tool of Industrial Development: The Case of the Consumer Electronics Manufacturing". Download from Pan-European Institute website.

The publication presents opinion of some Lithuanian epxerts on various aspects of Kaliningrad region's development (energy and transport infrastructure, demograhic factor etc.), as well as an assessment of the  socio-economic development programme and strategy of the Kaliningrad Region for the period of 2007-2016.

Attempting to provide a fully-fledged theory of enclaves and exclaves, A Theory of Enclaves covers a wide scope of regions and territories throughout the world and satisfies the need for a systematic view on enclaves. This book covers 282 enclaves, with a combined population total of approximately three million, but the importance of enclaves is much higher because of their specific status and issues raised for both the mainland states and the surrounding states: Gibraltar was disproportionately large for British-Spanish relations throughout the last three centuries, Kaliningrad managed to cause a major crisis in the EU-Russian relations in 2002-03, Tiny Ceuta and Melilla have caused tensions in Spanish-Moroccan relations for more than three centuries and have recently become visible as conflict points at the EU level, German Buesingen was subject to several complex international treaties between Germany and Switzerland. Rather than viewing each enclave as a unique case, or even as an anomaly, A Theory of Enclaves provides a systematic investigation of enclave-related political and economic issues. Rich on maps and illustrations, A Theory of Enclaves strives to comprise three facets of enclaves' existence: political, economic, and social life.

Modernizing municipal finance of the Kaliningrad oblast: performance-based approach and regional development. - M: MAX Press, 2007. - 192 p. ISBN 978-5-317-02003-3

Plenary Lecture at the Seminar Kaliningrad Identity – Crucial to Democracy and Development in the Baltic Sea Region Kaliningrad, 12-13 March 2007 The Russian State Immanuel Kant University, Kaliningrad in cooperation with CBEES/Sodertorn University College, Stockholm

Alexey Ignatiev, Petr Shopin

Kaliningrad’s economy has been growing in recent years, but it still has a long way to go to catch up to neighboring Poland and Lithuania in productivity terms. As a Russian exclave inside the European Union, Kaliningrad plays a key role in Russia-EU relations. Much of Kaliningrad’s economy now depends on the Special Economic Zone, whose benefits will be reduced when Russian joins the World Trade Organization. Accordingly, Kaliningrad needs to find a sustainable economic development model because simply maintaining the status quo only allows for moderate improvements.