Open AccessSecuritizing Russia: Discursive Practices of the Baltic States
Author(s) -
Øyvind Jæger
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
peace and conflict studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 1082-7307
DOI - 10.46743/1082-7307/2000.1009
Subject(s) - contest , sovereignty , political science , baltic sea , identity (music) , political economy , politics , security studies , economy , sociology , gender studies , law , aesthetics , economics , philosophy , oceanography , geology
The author argues that the security situation of the Baltic countries cannot be separated from the way the Balts themselves speak of security. This is a discourse of danger producing insecurity in pursuit of security. Moreover, this article is a study of identity by demonstrating how Baltic security issues are constituted by discourses of danger revolving around Russian Otherness and European Sameness. In conclusion, the following aspects are addressed: the prospects for the coming together of East and West in the Baltic Sea Region – and NATO’s role in this process – and whether this process will come to ease with a parallel between sovereignty and regionality as organising principles for political space, or whether the one will succumb to the other in the course of a prolonged contest.