Georgian-Russian Relations: the Role of Discourses and Narratives

(Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung) In this collection of three articles, Otar Kobakhidze first analyzes the narratives about Russia during the United National Movement (2003-2012) and Georgian Dream (since 2012) governments. Both parties label…

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Alexandra Yatsyk and Andrey Makarychev on illiberal biopolitics

(illiberalism.org) You have both been working for several years on the concept of biopolitics as applied to Central and Eastern Europe, including Russia. Can we talk about the rise of an…

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The Minsk–Khabarovsk nexus: Ethical, performative, corporeal

(Sage) This essay attempts to juxtapose mass-scale protest movements that almost simultaneously erupted in summer 2020 in Belarus and Russia’s Far East. In spite of dissimilar root causes of both events,…

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EaP Bulletin No. 13: Devastating acceleration of COVID-19 across the whole of Europe

(3DCFTAs) The global pandemic charges on. In the two and a half months, from the end of September to mid-December, the world total number of infections more than doubled to…

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Culture as an Instrument

(NJCP) Introduction: What is an instrument? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, it can be understood, for instance, as “a means or implement by which something is achieved, performed, or furthered”…

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The Coronavirus and the Future of Liberalism

(Mezinárodní vztahy) Abstract: The outbreak of COVID-19 has significantly reshaped debates on the global order, democratic politics and the liberal mode of governing societies. Some have compared the virus to the “ultimate…

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Precarious Sovereignty in a Post-liberal Europe: The COVID-19 Emergency in Estonia and Finland

(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 Hot August in Belarus: Post-Election Dynamics and Policy Options

(3dcftas.eu) This policy paper addresses the most acute political issues that now follow the August 9, 2020 presidential election in Belarus, a member of EU’s Eastern Partnership and one of Russia’s…

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The Role of Digital Power in Estonia and Taiwan in Combating COVID-19

(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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Russian “cognitive propaganda”: the case of Impressum Club in Tallinn

(Post-Soviet Affairs) Abstract: The object of my analysis is the Tallinn-based discussion club Impressum, known as a platform for spreading pro-Kremlin interpretations of political matters. These public speeches give a broad…

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