Latvia-Russia-X
Author : Žaneta Ozoliņa
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Latvia
ISBN :
Author : Žaneta Ozoliņa
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Latvia
ISBN :
Author : Andis Kudors
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1003802346
This book explores Russia’s relations with Latvia, arguing that Latvia, with a higher proportion of Russian speakers than other Baltic states, is especially vulnerable to Russia’s “sharp power”. The book highlights how authoritarian and totalitarian regimes are unable to exercise soft power based on the attractiveness of the country's culture and values, which would help them gain the favour of the audience of the target countries, but instead, as in the case of Russia, use public diplomacy, compatriot policy, media policy, propaganda, and disinformation to produce a destructive effect, distorting the democracies of target countries and increasing national security risks. The book provides in-depth detail on how Russia is making use of this “sharp power” in Latvia, examines the consequences and assesses the dangers for the future.
Author : Arved Berg
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Latvia
ISBN :
Author : Kevin M. F. Platt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501773712
Border Conditions combines history and memory studies with literary and cultural studies to examine lives at the limits of contemporary Europe: Russian speakers living in Latvia. Since the fall of the USSR in 1991, Latvia's Russian speakers have balanced between Russia and Europe as well as a socialist past, a capitalist and liberal present, and an illiberal regime rising in the Russian Federation. Kevin M. F. Platt describes how members of this population have defined themselves through art, literature, cultural institutions, film, and music—and how others have sought to define them. At the end of the Cold War, many anticipated that societies globally could agree on the meaning of past history and a just politics in the present. The view from the borders of Europe demonstrates the contradictions pertaining to terms like empire, state socialism, liberalism, and nation that have made it impossible to achieve a consensus. In refocusing the examination of state socialism's aftermath around questions of empire and postcolonialism, Border Conditions helps us understand the distinctions between Russian and Western worldviews driving military confrontation to this day.
Author : Jennie L. Schulze
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0822983095
Joseph Rothschild Book Prize Honorable Mention Strategic Frames analyzes minority policies in Estonia and Latvia following their independence from the Soviet Union. It weighs the powerful influence of both Europe and Russia on their policy choices, and how this intersected with the costs and benefits of policy changes for the politicians in each state. Prior to EU accession, policymakers were slow to adopt minority-friendly policies for ethnic Russians despite mandates from the European Union. These initiatives faced majority opposition, and politicians sought to maintain the status quo and their positions. As Jennie L. Schulze reveals, despite the credit given to the democratizing influence of European institutions, they have rarely produced significant policy changes alone, and then only when domestic constraints were low. Whenever domestic opposition was high, Russian frames were crucial for the passage of reforms. In these cases, Russia’s activism on behalf of Russian speakers reinforced European frames, providing powerful justifications for reform. Schulze’s attention to both the strategic framing and counter framing of external actors explains the controversies, delays, and suboptimal outcomes surrounding the passage of “conditional” amendments in both cases, as well as the local political climate postaccession. Strategic Frames offers a significant reference on recent developments in two former Soviet states and the rapidly evolving spheres of political influence in the postindependence era that will serve students, scholars, and policymakers alike.
Author : Ammon Cheskin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1474409997
The political shocks of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis have been felt in many former Soviet countries, not least Latvia, where over 35 per cent of the population are native Russian speakers. At a time when analysts and commentators are unsure about Russia's future plans to intervene on behalf of their 'compatriots', this study provides a detailed political and cultural analysis of Russian-speaking identity in Latvia. By using Russian-speakers in Latvia as a specific case study, this volume also offers a fresh methodological approach to the study of discourses and discursive strategies. It outlines a coherent methodology to study the evolution of discourses over time, rather than a single de-contextualised and static time period. Drawing on media analysis, elite interviews, focus groups and survey data, this volume situates the identity strategies of Russian speakers within the transformations of the post-Soviet era. By assessing political, cultural and economic links with their home state (Latvia) and their potential kin-state (Russia), it offers important insights into the complex identity positions of Latvia's Russian speakers, and how these positions have evolved in Latvia since the late Soviet period. At a historical moment when many will question the loyalty of Russian speakers to their various 'host states', this book provides a timely, scholarly account of ethnic politics in Latvia. It also offers a methodological framework that allows for the mapping of trends in discursive strategies, exploring how they evolve through time.
Author : Nils Muižnieks
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Latvia
ISBN :
Author : Ammon Cheskin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748697446
Introduction -- Discourse, memory, and identity -- Latvian state and nation-building -- Russian-language media and identity formation -- Examining Russian-speaking identity from below -- The "democratisation of history" and generational change -- The primacy of politics? Political discourse and identity formation -- The Russian Federation and Russian-speaking identity in Latvia -- A bright future?
Author : Ksenia Maksimovtsova
Publisher : Ibidem Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783838212821
How are language policy and usage politicized in contemporary Estonia, Latvia, and Ukraine? This study presents a cross-cultural qualitative and quantitative analysis of publications in leading Russian-language blogs and news websites of these three post-Soviet states during the period of 2004-2017.
Author : Nils Muižnieks
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign relations
ISBN : 9789984453262