Belarus, Russia, and the escape from geopolitics
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F21%3A10426175" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/21:10426175 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=kmT-H5RfCh" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=kmT-H5RfCh</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102377" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102377</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Belarus, Russia, and the escape from geopolitics
Original language description
Recent years have seen the return of geopolitics in Europe, and a constant interplay between geopolitical imaginaries and shifting nationalist politics. This is particularly the case on the European Union's eastern margins. The re-signification of Eastern Europe as Central Europe, Estonia's rebranding as a Nordic, rather than Baltic, nation, and Georgia's self-identification as a Black Sea country, rather than a Caucasian one, are examples of the continuous reimagining of geographical location, national identity, and interstate relationships. Geopolitical liminality seems to be a dominant theme among the Baltic and Central European states, which historically have been squeezed politically and militarily between (Western) Europe and Russia. This sense of liminality is embedded in revitalized regionalized imaginaries like the Intermarium project, which advocates for defensive integration of states between the Baltic and the Black Sea. Promoted by Poland since the early 20th century as a counterbalance to Russian (as well as German) power, and reminiscent of the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Intermarium is today supported by many nativist, populist forces in the region. Geopolitical imaginaries have also been central to debates on the frontlines of post-Soviet transformation, including Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and even Armenia, where the 'Russia versus Europe' dilemma has been a constitutive driver for political change.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Political Geography
ISSN
0962-6298
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
89
Issue of the periodical within the volume
August
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
3
Pages from-to
1-3
UT code for WoS article
000678533700009
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85103307441