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Estonia: Religious Association Restrictions of Same-Sex Couple Religious Rights
(Krakow: NOMOS, 2017)EU law on same-sex unions (SSU) expects Member States to legally recognize the family life of same-sex couples in the form of marriage, partnership, or cohabitation. The normative expectation, which in about 2010 became a ... -
Between Trump's America and Putin's Russia: Nordic-Baltic Security Relations amid Transatlantic Drift
(Royal Irish Academy, 2017)With the ‘return of geopolitics’ in Europe signalled in earnest by Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, this article examines the implications of DonaldTrump’s unpredictable US security policy for regional security ... -
Biopower and Geopolitics as Russia's neighbourhood strategies: reconnecting people or reaggregating lands?
(Routledge, 2017)In this article, we address geopolitics and biopower as two different yet mutually correlative discursive strategies of sovereign power in Russia. We challenge the dominant realist approaches to Russia’s neighborhood policy ... -
The Harmonization of Laws on Same-Sex Unions in Post-Communist Post-Accession Countries
(2017)EU law on same-sex unions (SSU) expects Member States to legally recognize the family life of same-sex couples in the form of marriage, partnership, or cohabitation. The normative expectation, which in about 2010 became a ... -
Redefining Europe: Russia and the 2015 Refugee Crisis
(Geopolitics, 2017)This article uses approaches embedded in practical and popular geopolitics for analysing how Russia capitalizes on the refugee crisis to redefine Europe. Two of Russia’s European policies are at the centre of this analysis: ... -
Introduction: Secession and Recognition in the Twenty-first Century
(Springer International Publishing, 2017)Questions of identity, secession, and (international) recognition are inherently interconnected. -
From Sochi - 2014 to FIFA - 2018: a Fading Sovereignty?
(2017)In this article, we uncover the dynamics and the evolution of Russian discourses of sovereignty before and after the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games using some elements of Foucauldian methodology and constructivist reading of ... -
A Russian Challenge to Multipolarity? The Prospects for Political Cooperation between Russia and Latin America
(Routledge, Copyright © 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2017)This article focuses on the attitudes in Latin American countries toward Russia’s newly assertive foreign policies since the annexation of Crimea. Without trying to analyze the Ukrainian events as such, this article describes ... -
Russians, Refugees and Europeans: What shapes the discourse of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia?
(University of Latvia Press, 2017)The Conservative Peoples’ Party of Estonia (EKRE) presents a unique case in the study of far-right parties for two reasons. First, the ‘others’ to which they juxtapose Estonians are the Russian-speaking minority, who are ... -
Lotman's Cultural Semiotics and the Political
(London, New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017)The authors analyse Lotman's semiotics in a series of temporal contexts, starting with the rigidity of Soviet-era ideologies, through to the post-Soviet de-politicization that - paradoxically enough - ended with the ... -
Vocabularies of International relations after the Crisis in Ukraine
(London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2017)The edited volume discusses the applicability of an ample variety of academic conceptualizations – from rationalist to reflectivist, and from quantitative to qualitative - to teh pos-2014 international relations. The authors ... -
Economic aspects of migration and the refugee crisis in Europe: challenges and opportunities in a dramatic scenario
(2017)The world is currently facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. The growing number of people displaced by civil conflict or natural disasters has increased dramatically in the recent years and ... -
The biopolitical turn in post-ideological times: a trajectory of Russian transformation
(Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2017)The authors study the applicability of the concept of biopolitics to contemporary Russian society and the ruling regime. The article singles our several domains of biopower that play major roles in defining the nature of ... -
Organic Tradition or Imperial Glory? Contradictions and Continuity of Russian Identity Politics
(2017)Russian identity politics and, more broadly, the country’s development in modern times has been conditioned by two constitutive splits: between the imperial elites and the peasant masses, on the one hand, and between Russia ... -
Russian Society and the Conflict in Ukraine: Masses, Elites and National Identity
(Bristol: E-International Relations, 2017)This chapter looks at how Russian society reacted to the conflict in and with Ukraine. The main object of interest is popular views of the conflict and its context, and in particular the way these views are conditioned ... -
Russia’s role in regional cooperation and the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR)
(2017)This article examines EU–Russian relations in the Baltic Sea region (BSR) utilizing the concepts of counter-hegemonic socialization and soft power. The implications of the Ukrainian crisis for regional cooperation in the ... -
Normative Power: Some Theory Aspects and Contemporary Practice of Russia and the EU
(2017)Цель статьи – разграничить понятия нормативная сила (НС) и мягкая сила (МС) и через данную призму показать развитие отношений России и Европейского союза. В теоретической части, отталкиваясь от конструктивистского подхода, ... -
Empowerment of Domestic Stakeholders: From Outcome-oriented to Processoriented Europeanization in the ENP Countries
(Routledge, London, New York, 2017, 2017)This chapter examines the strategies of the European Union (EU) that aim at promoting institutional reforms in neighbouring countries such as Ukraine. It particularly addresses the question why does rule convergence vary ... -
Biopolitics and national identities: between liberalism and totalization
(Routledge, 2017)This is an introductory article to the special cluster on the biopolitical reading of nation-building in post-Soviet countries. The authors explain the advatnages of using the biopolitical approach to countries with hybrid ... -
Has economic voting changed? A comparative analysis of Italy and other Southern European countries
(2017)The financial and debt crisis caused severe economic and political instability in Italy. Economic hardship led to an array of unpopular policy measures, giving rise to public dissatisfaction and civil unrest. These dramatic ...
