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Russian Speakers in Estonia: Legal, (Bio)Political and Security Insights
(Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan., 2016)The key question this chapter tackles is how two governments, the Russian and the Estonian, tackle a whole range of issues pertaining to the Russian-speaking community of Estonia. The authors single out the legal, political ... -
The Europeanization of foreign policy in the face of the Russian disinformation war
(Kaitseväe Ühendatud Õppeasutused, 2016)Since 2014 a key development emerging from the crisis in Ukraine has been the extensive use of various disinformation and propaganda techniques used by Russia against not only Ukraine, but also against the European Union ... -
Stabilizing Dispersed Identities, or Why Politics Defines EU-Russia Disconnections?
(London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2016)This chapter looks at the crisis in EU–Russia relations, with the conflict over Ukraine at its zenith, from the viewpoint of the twin concepts of boundaries and borders deployed at the intersection of competing research ... -
Claiming the diaspora: Russia's compatriot policy and its reception by Estonian-Russian population
(2016)Nearly a decade ago Russia took a turn from declarative compatriot protection discourse to a more programmatic approach consolidating large Russophone1 populations abroad and connecting them more with ... -
Nation Building, Political Boundaries and Cultural Authenticity: Post-Soviet Borderlands in Transformation
(Cambridge Scholars Publshing, 2016)Based on a comparative analysis of the cases of Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia, the article argues that cultural semantics of the performative events are constitutive for borderland identities-in-the-making. -
The Russian Federation and European Union against Corruption: A Slight Misunderstanding?
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2016)It was hoped that the Partnership for Modernisation would improve the troubled relationship between the Russian Federation and the European Union (EU), but it has fallen far short of expectations. Moreover, the disagreement ... -
Charting informal engagement between de facto states: a quantitative analysis
(2016)Although being considered illegal entities and largely ignored, de facto states have received some extent of acceptance such as foreign representations short of embassies located in their capitals. This paper examines the ... -
How do you tailor diplomatic training? Sizing up peer institutions and their training practices for the Diplomatic School of Armenia
(2016)The Diplomatic School of Armenia (est. in 2009) explored how its peer institutions were organized, how they tailored their training programmes and how any existing structures and practices could be suited for Armenia. This ... -
The Limits to Russian Soft Power in Georgia
(2016)This paper looks at conditions that stipulated the emergence of soft power as a peculiar type of discourse and policy practice in Russia, with a particular focus on Russian-Georgian relations -
Historia de los Estados bálticos
(Barcelona : Bellaterra, 2016)Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been the battleground for neighbouring powers and the site of intense rivalry, but also interaction, between East and West. A History of the Baltic States masterfully traces the development ... -
Глас народа: украинский конфликт глазами латиноамериканцев
(2016)Анализируя средства массовой информации Латинской Америки и результаты опросов, проведенных в Боливии в декабре 2014 г., автор пытается выявить ключевые моменты дискуссии о событиях в Украине и определить, насколько Россия ... -
Restraining Rivalries? US Alliance Policy and the Challenges of Regional Security in the Middle East and East Asia
(Royal Irish Academy, 2016)Barack Obama’s US presidency clearly signalled that America aims to re-order its foreign policy preferences to emphasise Asia. This article examines the challenges for US alliance management in the Middle East and East ... -
The Baltic Sea Region: practising security at the overlap of the European and the post-Soviet society of states
(2016)The chapter ‘The Baltic Sea Region: Practicing Security at the Overlap of the European and the Post-Soviet Society of States’ puts forward an interpretative framework for understanding the political dynamics currently on ... -
Russia’s neighbourhood policy: Conflictual contexts and factors of change
(Helsinki: Finnish Institute of International Affairs., 2016)The chapter analyses factors shaping Russia's relations with post-Soviet neighbours in the context of global politics -
The War in Chechnya in Russian Cinematographic Representations: Biopolitical Patriotism in 'Unsovereign' Times
(2016)This paper addresses the intricacies of patriotism during the two wars in Chechnya (1994-1996 and 1999-2000) as represented in Russian cinematographic narratives -
Ice Hockey World Championship in Belarus: Political Context
(2016)The chapter claims that promotion of mass and elite sport has a special place in Lukashenka’s domestic policies, which made the 2014 Ice Hockey World Championship in Minsk a politically important event for the regime. The ... -
Both in-between and out: national sovereignty and cross-border governmentality in the Euro 2012 in Lviv
(London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (New Georgaphies of Europe)., 2016)The chapter focuses on the case of Lviv as a host city of UEFA Cup in 2012, and approaches this case study from the perspective of governmentality -
Russia “Understanders” in Europe: Discourses, Communication, Consequences / Россия и ее «понимающие» союзники: Дискурсы, коммуникация, последствия
(2016)The article discusses how and to what extent non-mainstream political parties in EU member states can be sensitive and responsive to the Kremlin-imposed political agenda -
Why Narva is not next
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Borders in the Baltic Sea Region: Suturing the Ruptures
(London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)Based on different case studies, the chapters collected in this volume contribute to the conceptualization of the BSR as a particular borderland case, for example, a complex regional formation located at the intersection ...
