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Dealing with the Past: Transitional Justice and De-communization
(Routledge, 2017)This chapter reviews the literature around the study of post-communist transitional justice. It begins by comparing how different scholars have conceptualized transitional justice, particularly the range of empirical ... -
Balancing between consolidation and cartel. The effects of party law in Estonia.
(Routledge, 2017)Over the last decade the institutionalist study of political parties has taken a new turn. The turn has been toward the in-depth study of party law and party regulation. Such institutions ostensibly operate as uniform ... -
Illiberal geographies: popular geopolitics and Russian biopolitical regionalism
(Routledge, 2018)In this article, we focus on how a variety of illiberal discourses construct a scene for new geopolitical and geocultural imageries of the post-Soviet space, Europe, and Eurasia. Academically, ... -
Baltic Perspectives on the Ukraine Crisis: Europeanization in the Shadow of Insecurity
(Foundation for Good Politics, 2018)This article reviews the policy positions of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania with respect to the Ukraine crisis – the biggest foreign policy challenge for the Baltic states since they regained independence. Ukraine dominated ... -
Introduction
(2018)This collection of articles is a result of an international networked project that during three years supported professional mobility and connectivity between the University of Tartu and its partners in the South Caucasus ... -
Why the International Community Should Be More Accommodating to De Facto States
(PONARS Eurasia, 2018)De facto states are notorious for their pariah status, constant security deficit, and embryonic institutions, producing the perception that they are states-in-the-making perpetually striving for sheer survival. Their ... -
Unpacking the Post-Soviet: Political Legacy of the Tartu Semiotic School
(All Azimuth, 2018)This article sketches out general approach to using cultural semiotics as a cognitive tool for analyzing international relations in general and in post-Soviet area in particular. The authors discuss how the homegrown school ... -
Sovereignty and Russian national identity-making: The biopolitical dimension
(Edinburgh University Press, 2018)The chapter discuss issues of Russian sovereignty and identity from a biopolitical perspective -
In Between War and Peace: The Conceptualisation of Russian Strategic Deterrence
(Tartu : Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2018)The Russian Federation has expanded its foreign policy instruments in recent years to include a broader range of tools, both military and non-military for times of peace and war. The implications of this pivot in Russian ... -
Bordering and Identity-Making in Europe After the 2015 Refugee Crisis
(Routledge, 2018)Introduction to the spacial issue that presents and analyzes the state of debate on EU's immigration policies from a geopolitical perspective -
The Do-or-Die Dilemma Facing Post-Soviet De Facto States
(PONARS Eurasia, 2018)This memo discusses the “do or die” dilemma of post-Soviet de facto states. Our examination looks in to patron-client relations that are highly unequal and asymmetric in terms of resources and capabilities: Russia vis-à-vis ... -
Beyond Geopolitics: Russian Soft Power, Conservatism, and Biopolitics
(Brill’s publications, 2018)This article offers a new approach to Russian foreign policy under Putin’s presidency as shifting from its ‘soft power’ model to what might be characterized through the prism of biopower. The author discusses the various ... -
Conceptual Framework for Engagement with de facto States
(London, New York: Routledge, 2018)Secessionist de facto states, by their very nature, sit outside of the international system. Having unilaterally declared independence from their parent state, they are invariably prevented from joining the United Nations, ... -
Biopolitics and Russian Studies: An Introduction
(Brill’s publications, 2018)This introductory article explains how the concept of biopolitics can be used as an analytical tool in the sphere of Russian studies. The author elucidates different approaches to the idea of biopolitics in contemporary ... -
Introduction. Identity Clashes: Russian and Ukrainian Debates on Culture, History, and Politics, Special Issue of Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, 4:1.
(Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2018)An introduction to the special issue on Rusian and Ukrainian clashes over political and cultural matters -
Introduction: A Conceptual Framework for Engagement with de facto States
(Routledge, 2018)Secessionist de facto states, by their very nature, sit outside of the international system. Having unilaterally declared independence from their parent state, they are invariably prevented from joining the United Nations, ... -
Boris Nemtsov and Russian Politics: Power and Resistance
(Stuttgart: ibidem Verlag, 2018)An edited volume in commemoration of Boris Nemtsov's contribution to Russian politics -
A Tale of Two Orthodoxies: Europe in Religious Discourses of Russia and Georgia
(Routledge, 2018)The article seeks to analyze discourses of two Orthodox Churches—Georgian (GOC) and Russian (ROC)—from the vantage point of their various interconnections with Europe and the ensuing representations of Europe framed in ... -
Russia and the EU Spaces of Interaction
(Routledge, 2018)The annexation of Crimea in 2014 and Russia’s support for military insurgency in eastern Ukraine undermined two decades of cooperation between Russia and the EU leaving both sides in a situation of reciprocal economic ... -
Identity and Hegemony in EU-Russia relations: Making Sense of the Asymmetrical Entanglement
(London, New York: Routledge, 2018)The study of EU–Russia relations has been a fruitful testing ground for constructivist research. This chapter attempts to take stock of the existing constructivist work on EU–Russia relations and to suggest some avenues ...
