Beiträge zur Kiel Week Conference 1996 zum Thema "Local Authorities as Transnational Actors and their Significance for Peace, Environment and Development". Inhalt: I. Actors in Low Politics with an Impact on High Politics?: Johan Galtung: Local Authorities as Peace Factors, Actors, and Workers (15-27); Pertti Joenniemi: Cities as International Actors. The Nexus between Networking and Security (29-36); Beate Wagner: Twinnings - A Transnational Contribution to More International Security? (37-44); Detlef Weigel: Transnational Co-operation between Towns and Regions. A Foreign Policy Perspective (45-49); Unto Vesa: What is Old, What is New in the Transnational Contacts of Local Authorities? Some Notes on Recent Developments in the Baltic Sea Region (51-59); György Szèll: Development and Co-operation in Global Twinning. Nineteen Theses on the Perspectives on Twinning for the Next 30 Years (61-66). II. Opting for Beyond the Parochial Boundaries: The Internationalization of Local (Economic) Policies: Sari Söderlund: Developing Networks in the Baltic Sea Economic Region: The Role of Cities in the Economic Development of the Baltic Sea Region (69-82); Magnus Jerneck: Malmö - the Centre of an Europeanized Region Southern Sweden? (83-98); Jyrki Käkönen / Susanna Perko: Regionalization in Europe and the Internationalization of Finnish Regions. From Europe to the Tampere Region and back to the World (99-119); Norris C. Clement: Cities - Regions in the New Economy: A North American Perspective (121-138). III. Bilateral and Multilateral Town-to-Town Co-operation: Empirical Evidence from the Baltic Sea Region: Torbjörn Johansson / Carl-Einar Stålvant: Twin City-Relationships. A Code for Neighborhood Co-operation in the Baltic Sea Area? (141-169); Anders Engström: How the Union of the Baltic Cities Contributes to the Development of the Baltic Sea Region (171-182); Ina Jonaitiene / Ricardas Zulcas: The Foreign Relations of Klaipeda Municipality (183-191); Bartlomiej Sochanski: Municipal International Co-operation. A Polish Perspective Based on Experiences of the City of Szczecin (193-201); Martin Åberg: History, Nationalism, and the Symbolic Capital of Cities. Implications for Cross-border Co-operation in the Baltic Sea Area (203-216). IV. Strengthening Peace, Democracy, and Reconciliation: Erika Schumacher: Common Cause Switzerland. Promotion of Peace, Local Democracy, and Human Rights through Partnerships between Local Authorities (219-226); Reiner Steinweg: Linz - A City in the Neighborhood of War. Projects and Experiences (227-251); Helmut Albers: Brief Report on the Co-operation between the Twin Towns Strzelce Opolskie (Poland) and Soest (Germany) (253-255); Peter Althini / Per Gudmund Lindencrona: The Democracy Project Sweden - Lithuania 1993-1995 (257-263).