A European Geopolitical Subject in the Making? EU, Russia and the Kaliningrad Question
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7784957 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pami Aalto (0000-0003-1559-8175, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 142-174 |
| Publication date | 2002-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/714000977 |
| OpenAlex | W2009171447 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
This article engages the recent studies that have treated the European Union (EU) in geopolitical terms, as an empire engaged with enlargement. The article introduces the meta-concept of geopolitical subjectivity. This meta-concept enables us to situate such imperial interpretations of the EU into a theoretically informed, comparative setting. The meta-concept is defined as goal-oriented ordering of territories and political spaces, extending from one's own sphere of sovereign rule to broader regional contexts. It is used to study the EU-Russian interaction in creating order to the Kaliningrad region that is set to become a Russian enclave/exclave within the enlarged EU. The article concludes by arguing that in this case, the EU's geopolitical subjectivity is constituted more strongly by Russia's recognition of this status than by the EU's own identity and interest projects
Aesthetics · Economics · Empire · Epistemology · European union · Geopolitics · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resizing · Sociology · Sovereignty · Subjectivity · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · European Politics and Security · European Union Policy and Governance · Law
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German Pasts in a Russian City — Kaliningrad between 1946 and 2006
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Postmodern Geopolitics? The European Union Eyes Russia
The Foreign Within’
The European Union’s polar ambitions
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On the interface
On the economic security of Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave
EU-Russia political and security cooperation
Russian and Western scholarly perspectives on EU–Russia relations in Justice and Home Affairs
Étude des frontières approches post-modernes
Assessing Kaliningrad's Geostrategic Role
Kaliningrad as an isolated zone
The Russian Cyber‐Bride as Geopolitical Fantasy
Ubiquitous identities and elusive subjects
The geopolitics of European (dis)union
Geopolitical rebordering? External boundary formation in the European Union
Border Studies
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Kaliningrad
Theoretical Limology
The European Union’s ‘geopolitical subjectivity’ in the Arctic in question
| Citations per year | 1.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |