Challenging the ‘Post-Soviet’ Label and Colonial Mindsets - NATO Summit in Vilnius
Sagatienė, Dovilė
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2023
Verfassungsblog
2023-07-11
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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.
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Sagatienė, Dovilė
Baltic States
National Identity
Post-Communism
Soviet colonialism
Soviet Union
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https://verfassungsblog.de/challenging-the-post-soviet-label-and-colonial-mindsets/
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