Between Russia and europe

• Autor(a) principal: Simone Almeida Resende, Erica
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Dumard, Graziela
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da Escola de Guerra Naval (Ed. Português. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.portaldeperiodicos.marinha.mil.br/index.php/revistadaegn/article/view/4175
• topic: Baltic States; Russia; Europe; identities; foreign policy

Thirty years after the restauration of their independence,Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are now members of theEuropean Union and demonstrate little affinity withRussia, heir to the USSR. What is the role identity discoursesin their foreign policy choices? We argue that Estonia,Latvia and Lithuania define their national identities – andtherefore the thrust of their foreign policies – accordingto a logic of triangular attraction and repulsion towardsRussia and Europe. Based on the Self/Other dichotomy,this article identifies how meanings associated with Balticnational identities were incorporated into their foreignpolicies after the fall of URSS. More specifically, thearticle examines the discourses of Russification and/orSovietisation and Europeanisation, how these discoursesdiffer from one another, and how the Baltic states respondto those influences in constructing their foreign policies.