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From Existential Politics Towards Normal Politics? The Baltic States in the Enlarged Europe

Malksoo, Maria (2005) From Existential Politics Towards Normal Politics? The Baltic States in the Enlarged Europe. Security Dialogue, 37 (3). pp. 275-297. ISSN 0967-0106. (doi:10.1177/0967010606069180) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:57075)

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Abstract

This article presents a critical discourse analysis of the Baltic states’

self-positioning within European foreign policy. It argues that, despite

certain relief in their immediate security concerns after the dual

enlargement of the EU and NATO, the shift from existential politics to

normal politics by the Baltic states is far from being accomplished. The

way in which the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have

responded to the construction of their identity as ‘Europe but not

Europe’ throughout the enlargement processes of the EU and NATO

has been largely neglected in empirical studies on their post-Cold War

self-conceptualizations in the European arena. Yet, the experience of

being framed as simultaneously in Europe and not quite European

has left a constitutive imprint on the current security imaginary of the

Baltic states. William Connolly’s concept of the politics of becoming is

thus applied to analyse the Baltic version of becoming a subject in the

field of common European foreign policy.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1177/0967010606069180
Uncontrolled keywords: Baltic states; existential politics; European foreign policy; politics of becoming; discourse analysis
Subjects: J Political Science
J Political Science > JZ International relations
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations
Depositing User: Maria Malksoo
Date Deposited: 02 Sep 2016 12:08 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:23 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/57075 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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