Spatial Practices and Time in Estonia: From Post-Soviet Geopolitics to European Governance

The article examines spatial practices and time in post-Soviet Estonia as a particularly illuminating example of the issues involved in post-Soviet geopolitics and the geopolitics of European governance. The article makes use of recent critical geopolitics literature. It enquires into Estonia's...

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Published in:Space & polity 2002-12, Vol.6 (3), p.253-270
Main Authors: Aalto, Pami, Berg, Eiki
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Estonia
Foreign relations
Geopolitics
Governance
International Conflict
International relations
Political geography
Post-communist societies
Postcommunist Societies
Russia
Space and Time
Spatial analysis
Territoriality
Time
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Summary:The article examines spatial practices and time in post-Soviet Estonia as a particularly illuminating example of the issues involved in post-Soviet geopolitics and the geopolitics of European governance. The article makes use of recent critical geopolitics literature. It enquires into Estonia's early-mid 1990s post-Soviet geopolitics that led to the emergence of the Estonian- Russian land border dispute, the Estonian-Latvian maritime border dispute and a conflict with Russia. These disputes faded away towards the late 1990s as Estonia's essentially modern post-Soviet geopolitics became increasingly suppressed by the geopolitics of the expansion of the area of European governance, connoting both modern and post-modern spatial practices. In the more conceptual sense, the case-study analysis also highlights the pivotal role of identity politics and the politics of time and memory in post-Soviet geopolitics and geopolitics in general.
ISSN:1356-2576
1470-1235
DOI:10.1080/1356257022000031968