nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230711-231150-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230711s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230711-231150-0 doi eng 342 23 Sagatienė, Dovilė Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-9842-667X Challenging the ‘Post-Soviet’ Label and Colonial Mindsets - NATO Summit in Vilnius Sagatienė, Dovilė Verfassungsblog 2023-07-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The international discourse long depended on the term ‘post-Soviet’ to refer to the 15 sovereign states that emerged and re-emerged from the Soviet Union following its dissolution in 1991. The list includes European and Asian countries with contrasting backgrounds. Rooted in the context of the Cold War, the term fails to capture the crucial ongoing metamorphosis and challenges of these states for the past thirty years. For Lithuania and the Baltic region at least, the NATO Summit in Vilnius in July 2023 is a chance to emphasize the strong European identity and to challenge the deep colonial mindsets, which overlooks Eastern European perspectives in favor of those built in Moscow since the beginning of the 20th century. CC BY-SA 4.0 Baltic States National Identity Post-Communism Soviet colonialism Soviet Union Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/challenging-the-post-soviet-label-and-colonial-mindsets/ raw object