| Description |
1 online resource (x, 190 pages) : maps |
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[Cass studies in geopolitics, 1466-7940] |
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Cass studies in geopolitics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Map; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; 1. The Space of Post-Soviet Geopolitics in Estonia; From Pre-Soviet to Post-Soviet Geopolitics; A New 'Critical Geopolitics' Approach; Puzzles in Post-Soviet Geopolitics; Estonia's Early 1990s Restorationist Geopolitics; Restoration and Resistance; Notes; 2. 'High' and 'Low' Geopolitics; The Social Construction of Discourses; Security is about Securitisation; Identities Mediate Discourses and Subjectivities |
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Subjectivities are Situated in IntersubjectivityThe Construction of Geopolitical Discourses in the Post-Soviet Space; Notes; 3. In Search of Discourses; Discourse Analysis as a Viewpoint on Post-Soviet Geopolitics; Q-Methodological Discourse Analysis; Listening to Subjective Voices; The Q-Sorting Experiments; The Post-Sorting Interviews; Complementary Material; Analysing Subjective Voices; Methodological Note; Notes; 4. Restorationist Geopolitics and Beyond; Seeing the Politics in Discourses; Competing Discourses in Post-Soviet Estonia; Discourse I: Echoes Of Restorationist Geopolitics |
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Discourse II: Desecuritising Interethnic IssuesDiscourse III: Estonia First!; Discourse IV: Defending Russophone Identity; Lines of Division; Grounds for Co-Operation; Hidden Securities?; Notes; 5. Identities and Subjectivities Matter; Identity Politics and Subjectivity in the Construction of Discourses; Conflictual Everyday Life Gives Rise to Restoration; Return to Ambivalent Everyday Life Erodes Restoration; Russophone Identity Politics; Revisiting the Security-Identity Puzzle; Notes; 6. Discourse, Power and New Boundaries; Discourse and Power; Power, Empowerment and the Powerless |
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Power: The Persistence of Restorationist GeopoliticsEmpowerment: Challenging Restorationism in Interethnic Policies; The Powerless: Silenced in Foreign Policy; Identity Politics Vs. Realpolitik; National, Regional and European Geopolitics; Revisiting the Internal-External Puzzle; Notes; Concluding Remarks: Critical Geopolitics and Peaceful Development; Note; Appendices; Appendix I: Transliteration Of The Cyrillic Alphabet; Appendix II: Map of Estonia (1991-Present); References; Index |
| Summary |
This work examines the construction of post-Soviet political space, geopolitical discourses and boundaries in Estonia. Making use of innovative methodological solutions such as Q-methodology, its analysis includes in-depth interviews that elucidate a variety of issues through human experience and subjective perception, such as Estonian-Russian border disputes of the 1990s, inter-ethnic issues and national integration and security. As Estonia is one of the frontline EU accession countries and is queuing for membership of NATO, the book raises broad questions of post-Soviet geopolitics in the Bal |
| Notes |
Series statement on jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Geopolitics -- Estonia
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Geopolitics Politics and Government. -- Estonia.
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Geopolitics
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Diplomatic relations
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Politics and government
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Regions & Countries - Europe.
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History & Archaeology.
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Russia & Former Soviet Republics.
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| SUBJECT |
Estonia -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92005522
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Estonia -- Foreign relations -- 1991-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98005491
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| Subject |
Estonia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003043406 |
| ISBN |
9781135294427 |
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1135294429 |
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1299872255 |
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9781299872257 |
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0714654256 |
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9780714654256 |
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0714683493 |
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9780714683492 |
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9781315039381 |
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1315039389 |
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9781135294564 |
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1135294569 |
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9781135294496 |
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1135294496 |
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