DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2
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Editorial Foreword
Silviu Miloiu
Elena Dragomir
Director of the Department for Studies in Foreign Languages of Valahia University
Director of the Center for Baltic and Nordic Studies of The Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies
Volume 6, issue no. 2 (2014) of Revista Română de Studii Baltice și Nordice / The Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies is dedicated to the publication of selected papers of Fifth annual international conference on Baltic and Nordic Studies in Romania: A piece of culture, a culture of peace, re-imaging European communities in the North Sea, Baltic Sea and Black Sea regions, which was held in Târgoviște, Romania, between 17-19 August 2014, as part of the project “A piece of culture, a culture of peace” (CoolPeace) and a follow-up to the summer school of Nordic and Baltic Studies. Financed under the measure “inter-institutional cooperation projects” of the EEA grants, the project was designed to strengthen the institutional cooperation at the level of higher education sector between all the partners involved: Valahia University of Târgoviște as the Project Promoter, the University of Agder, the University of Oslo, the Embassy of Lithuania in Romania, Peace Action Training and Research Institute of Romania and the Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies. The Programme Operator of the EEA Scholarship Programme in Romania is ANPCDEFP (the National Agency for Community Programmes in the Field of Education and Vocational Training). The embassies of Finland and Norway in Romania were cultural partners in this endeavour.
The aim of the conference was to investigate various types of potential conventional and non-conventional threats in Europe which could emerge from poverty, exclusion, competition for resources, weak institutions, ideological views, perceptions of the other or lack of knowledge about the other. Our continent also seems under constant (perceived) threats related to terrorism, energy, Russia’s relations with Europe or weapons of mass destructions. Despite many difficulties and constraints, there is justified hope to move from a culture of (perceived) threat to a culture of peace. While politicians stress that one should be prepared to respond to threats and security challenges, and that society should not make the fatal mistake of minimizing the many (potential) dangers that Europe faces today, scientists, artists, historians, linguists etc. argue that peace can and should be preserved through collaboration with the other, through promoting knowledge about the other, through the study of past experiences, through promoting pieces of the other’s culture.
This conference focused on intercultural dialogue and forms of cooperation between state and non-state entities, between intra-cultural entities, between different communities. The conference approached the cultural relations from two perspectives:
- as an integral part of bilateral and multilateral foreign policy, focusing on intercultural relations, policies, past experiences;
- as an integral part of bilateral and multilateral foreign policy focusing on intra-cultural relations.
The assumption was that cultural relations manifest in interstate relations, in inter-regional relations, in relations between states and non-state entities, in multicultural states. Cultural relations have effect on policies, political thought, communications, choices of states, ethnic groups, religious groups etc.
The conference brought together scientists, young and consecrated scholars, non-governmental and governmental actors in the areas of cultural relations and peace building, ambassadors, educators. The conference addressed themes such as: language and culture; a diplomacy of peace; World War II – the greatest challenge to peace; intercultural relations; the aesthetics of peace through literature; re-imagining power, gender and contemporary globalization; European networks of peace: modelling the whole.
These themes are well encompassed in this journal, which opens with a theoretical approach to war and peace in Eastern Europe as seen from the perspective of Ukrainian evolutions and approaches topics related to the contribution of music, literature, translations, diplomacy, energy policy, minorities and majority – minority relations to bridging the gaps in Europe. It also discusses the potential area of conflicts which emerge from the past and particularly the interpretation of the past in politics, history and culture.
Table of contents
Silviu Miloiu and Elena Dragomir
Editorial Foreword 5
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_1
Leonidas Donskis
War and Peace in Eastern Europe: The Ukrainian Lessons 7
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_2
Meri Elisabet Herrala
Post-War Friendship Between Neighbors: An outline of Soviet-Finnish Music Exchanges from 1944 towards the collapse of the Soviet Union 27
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_3
Crina Leon
Knut Hamsun between cultural Germany and political Germany 53
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_4
Roxana-Ema Dreve
Sunne – Göran Tunström‘s land of peace and beauty 63
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_5
Adél Furu
Peace through cultural interaction: the ethnic relations in Finland and Turkey 69
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_6
Kathleen Easlick
Literary and cultural exchange: translation trends in the Nordic and Baltic countries 77
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_7
Alexandra Airinei
Pre-Christian Scandinavian royalty. From the legendary kings
to the 11th century kingship 95
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_8
Mihaela Mehedinţi-Beiean
Peace or conflict? Past cultural relations between the Nordic countries, Russia and the Romanian area (17th – 19th Centuries) 105
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_9
Mircea-Cristian Ghenghea
About Pan-Scandinavianism. Reference points in the 19th century (1815-1864) 127
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_10
Adrian Vițalaru
Romanian diplomats in the Scandinavian countries (1916-1947) 147
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_11
Kari Alenius
Finnish efforts to promote cultural relations with Romania
during the Second World War 169
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_12
Silviu Miloiu
When the West is far away: Romanian attempts to withdraw from World War II (1943-1944), Finnish views 183
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_13
Nicoleta Carmen Olteanu
How did 22/7 shape the political rhetoric on immigration and integration in Norway? 207
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_14
Mehmet Efe Biresselioglu, Muhittin Hakan Demir, Sinem Dönmez
Danish Straits versus Turkish Straits: The Potential Impact of Prospective Russian Oil Exports 223
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_15
Gheorghe Bârlea
Leonidas Donskis – an encyclopedic Renaissance-like figure 241
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_16
Artur Lakatos
Pål Thonstad Sandvik, Multinationals, Subsidiaries and National Business Systems: the Nickel Industry and Falconbridge Nikkelverk 255
DOI number: 10.53604/rjbns.v16i2_17
Call for Papers 258