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The Baltic States Are Also Worried About Russia

  • May 19, 2022
  • Ralph Clem and Erik Herron
(Washington Post/Monkey Cage) A new survey shows what citizens think about NATO — and what they would do if attacked. Leaders in Finland and Sweden pushed ahead this week with plans to join the…
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Bringing about Democracy without Increasing Corruption: Lessons from Post-Soviet States

  • January 18, 2022
  • Kelly McMann
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Democratic transitions initially tend to bring about higher levels of political corruption. This is well documented globally, and most post-Soviet states are no exception. Increased political…
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Changing Perceptions of State Capacity Delivery in Estonia, Georgia, and Ukraine During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • December 17, 2021
  • Ralph Clem and Erik Herron
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) How have citizens’ attitudes about the state and its capacity to deliver public goods changed during an especially fraught period caused by the COVID-19 pandemic? This…
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Precarious Sovereignty in a Post-liberal Europe: The COVID-19 Emergency in Estonia and Finland

  • October 23, 2020
  • Andrey Makarychev
(Chinese Political Science Review) Abstract: The paper addresses a puzzle resulting from the current global state of alert: the coronavirus pandemic brought us back to the world of the allegedly sovereign…
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The Role of Digital Power in Estonia and Taiwan in Combating COVID-19

  • August 18, 2020
  • Elizabeth Wishnick
(Weatherhead East Asian Institute) Taiwan and Estonia are known as digital democracies. As both face threats from neighbors, their degree of digitization typically has been seen as a vulnerability. The…
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The Baltic States and Energy Security: How Else Can the EU Foster Their Energy Resilience in the Face of Russian Pressure?

  • July 24, 2020
  • Gianmarco Riva
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In recent times, Baltic State policies toward Russia have displayed a relatively unified front. This became abundantly clear in the aftermath of major events such as…
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Governing the Pandemic in Finland and Estonia

  • July 23, 2020
  • Andrey Makarychev
(PONARS Eurasia Commentary) In this article, we analyze the management and political implications of COVID-19 in two small countries located at the EU’s north-eastern border: Finland and Estonia. Culturally, ethnically, and linguistically, they share a…
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Estonia’s Russophones Tumble Between Two Populisms

  • October 8, 2019
  • Andrey Makarychev
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Current political developments in Estonia are primarily shaped by the highly controversial and divisive effects of its March 2019 parliamentary election. For the first time, the right-wing…
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Europe’s frontline of information wars: Russophone communities in Estonia and Germany

  • July 29, 2019
  • Alexandra Yatsyk
(National Identities) (Co-authored with Andrey Makarychev) Abstract: This article approaches Russophone groups in Estonia and Germany as discursive subjects and producers of their own narratives and storylines that are either technically…
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Estonia and Portugal in Europe: escaping peripherality, capitalizing on marginality

  • July 29, 2019
  • Andrey Makarychev
(Journal of Contemporary European Studies) (Co-authored with Sandra Fernandes) Abstract: Estonia and Portugal are small states located at opposite geographical fringes of the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization…
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