Reinventing 'new' Europe: Baltic perspectives on transatlantic security reconfigurations
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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.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Communist and Post-Communist Studies |
Volume | 46 |
Issue number | 3 |
Pages (from-to) | 397-406 |
Number of pages | 9 |
ISSN | 0967-067X |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
- Faculty of Social Sciences - Baltic States, transatlantic security relations, New Europe, discourse analysis
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