EU and Russia competing projects in the neighbourhood: an ontological security approach

Freire, Maria Raquel

doi:10.1590/0034-7329202000113

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“…The shift from Ukrainian friendly relations with Russia to a state of war since 2014 shows the reconfiguration of the identity narrative from "brotherhood" to "the other as enemy," is illustrative, implying Ukraine's adaptation of its system of meaning socially and politically. Political resistance to Russia came to reinforce Ukraine's national narrative as independent and distinct from that of Russia (Freire, 2020).…”

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Digital literacy and technopolitics, core enablers in a disintermediated digital political communication age

Pérez-Escoda

Freire

2023

EPI

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The growing interconnection of technology and politics and the enactment of particular political goals (technopolitics) has been closely articulated with emotions and the building of foreign policy narratives. In the current context of change in the communication paradigm, global and disintermediated, bringing together in the same digital space distinct actors, and having wide diffusion and reach, the challenges to international politics are diverse. Digital and media literacy are, in this regard, key to address the implications of these changes, avoiding the spreading of disinformation, fake news and distorted practices that might have profound effects at societal and political level. In this context, this paper aims at providing a basis for understanding the emerging and increasingly clear connection between political communication, polarization, disinformation, and emotions in social networks and digital literacy as a central factor explaining misuse or alleviating deficiencies, on the one hand, and how this context is affecting the reconfiguration of international relations and politics, on the other hand. The case of the war in Ukraine is illustrative of these trends and dynamics.

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Digital literacy and technopolitics, core enablers in a disintermediated digital political communication age

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Freire

2023

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“…This deterioration in relations has included the EU, especially since the "perfect storm" identified by Hiski Haukkala (2016), as highlighted at the beginning of this article. We may follow Freire (2020) in seeing the evolution of both the EU´s and Russia´s mutual relations, both before and since the geopolitical clash in Ukraine, as an increasing divergence of their ontological securities.…”

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Russia after the Euromaidan Foreign Policy Limitations amid Clashing Geostrategies of Territorial Expansion and Eurasian Integration

Pardo Sauvegeot

2023

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Tras el Euromaidán, Rusia respondió con una intervención militar en territorio ucraniano. Esta revisión del status dio un giro más brutal en febrero de 2022. Las razones del revisionismo de Rusia encajan en el debate sobre el creciente distanciamiento entre la Federación Rusa y Occidente, junto con una renovación de la caracterización clásica de Rusia como un Estado “imperialista” empeñado en restaurar el poder de la ex Unión Soviética centrado en Moscú. Aunque la caracterización amplia de Rusia como “imperialista” capta hábilmente su brutal negación de la soberanía de Ucrania, todavía combina diferentes vectores geográficos y períodos históricos. Este artículo contribuye a los debates en curso empleando los conceptos de “perspectivas geoestratégicas” de William Walters (es decir, marcha, frontera colonial y limes) y los modelos geopolíticos westfalianos e imperiales de Christopher S. Browning y Pertti Joenniemi. Este marco resume, por un lado, la compleja compatibilidad de los procesos de revisionismo territorial y, por el otro, la integración regional de la ex Unión Soviética centrada en Rusia. En última instancia, el objetivo es analizar la política fronteriza de Rusia posterior al Euromaidán, abordando tanto la revisión de las fronteras de Ucrania como la integración regional a través de la Unión Económica Euroasiática durante el statu quo que duró hasta 2022. El panorama resultante muestra que el modelo geopolítico westfaliano de la Federación Rusa de expansión del limes contradice el modelo geopolítico imperial basado en la creación de fronteras coloniales. El refuerzo incremental del modelo westfaliano desde febrero de 2022 plantea la interesante pregunta de cómo afectará esto a la geopolítica imperial con respecto a otros países de la ex Unión Soviética.

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“…In fact, in this case, it is not that a given ontological insecurity justifies uncompromising behaviour; uncompromising behaviour serves to essentialize a certain definition of the vision of oneself. Such a temptation is visible in many political justifications of foreign policies, as analyzed, for instance, in research on foreign policy discourses in CEE, and in particular in Russia (see, for instance, Akchurina and Della Sala, 2018;Freire, 2020;Hansen, 2016;Kazharski, 2019;Narozhna, 2022).…”

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“Vision of Itself” in Foreign Policy Analysis: From the Role of Ideas to Identity and Recognition

Guzzini

2022

Teoria Polityki

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For Henry Kissinger, a stable international order is not only based on a balance of power, but also on a balance of identities, of “visions of itself ”. How do our observational theories of international relations come to understand this practical maxim? This article shows that rationalist theories, methodological underpinnings fall short of satisfactorily addressing the issue, while constructivism’s and post-structuralism’s social ontology and relational understanding of identity provide a better starting point. And yet, when we return from the level of explanatory theory back to foreign policy practice, constructivist theorizing, precisely for its focus on identity, risks of being abused for the purpose of nationalist apologies of the very kind that makes a balance of identities impossible.

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EU and Russia competing projects in the neighbourhood: an ontological security approach

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Cited by 7 publications

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Digital literacy and technopolitics, core enablers in a disintermediated digital political communication age

Digital literacy and technopolitics, core enablers in a disintermediated digital political communication age

Russia after the Euromaidan Foreign Policy Limitations amid Clashing Geostrategies of Territorial Expansion and Eurasian Integration

“Vision of Itself” in Foreign Policy Analysis: From the Role of Ideas to Identity and Recognition

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