Reinventing 'new' Europe: Baltic perspectives on transatlantic security reconfigurations
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Reinventing 'new' Europe : Baltic perspectives on transatlantic security reconfigurations. / Mälksoo, M.; Šešelgytć, M.
I: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Bind 46, Nr. 3, 2013, s. 397-406.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Reinventing 'new' Europe
T2 - Baltic perspectives on transatlantic security reconfigurations
AU - Mälksoo, M.
AU - Šešelgytć, M.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This article examines the self-positioning of the three Baltic states in international politics in relation to the major structural pressures challenging the status quo of the transatlantic security configuration. The constitutive role of the Russia-Georgia war of 2008, the global economic recession, the debt crisis in the eurozone, and the shifting policy preferences and force projection of the United States towards Asia are explored as the key sources of the emerging Baltic security predicament. The empirical conclusions of the poststructuralist discourse analysis conducted for this study demonstrate how the Baltic states, in particular Estonia, have recently come to redefine the contents of ‘new’ Europe, thereby shifting the extant fault lines within the European Union.
AB - This article examines the self-positioning of the three Baltic states in international politics in relation to the major structural pressures challenging the status quo of the transatlantic security configuration. The constitutive role of the Russia-Georgia war of 2008, the global economic recession, the debt crisis in the eurozone, and the shifting policy preferences and force projection of the United States towards Asia are explored as the key sources of the emerging Baltic security predicament. The empirical conclusions of the poststructuralist discourse analysis conducted for this study demonstrate how the Baltic states, in particular Estonia, have recently come to redefine the contents of ‘new’ Europe, thereby shifting the extant fault lines within the European Union.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Baltic States
KW - transatlantic security relations
KW - New Europe
KW - discourse analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84882852402&partnerID=MN8TOARS
U2 - 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2013.06.006
DO - 10.1016/j.postcomstud.2013.06.006
M3 - Journal article
VL - 46
SP - 397
EP - 406
JO - Communist and Post-Communist Studies
JF - Communist and Post-Communist Studies
SN - 0967-067X
IS - 3
ER -
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