“Eastern Europe” and War A New Kidnapping?

Introduction: Kidnapping Europe in the Twenty-first Century

Aliaksei Kazharski, Andrey Makarychev.

1. Belarus after 2022: The Logic of War and the Limits of Liminality

Katsiaryna Lozka

2. Continuous Czech Geopolitical Vacillation: A New Perspective

Nik Hynek, Václav Moravec

3. Estonia: Back to Eastern Europe?

Andrey Makarychev

4. Hungary’s Politics of Weakness: The Nuisance Potential and the Limits of a (Geo) Political Countermodel in the EU and NATO in Times of War

Adam Bence Balazs

5. Between European, Northern, Eastern and the Baltic Understanding of the Self: The Case of Latvia

Evija Djatkovica

6. Lithuania’s Turn to Democracy Promotion: Redefining Fundamental Interests in the Face of Authoritarian Onslaught

Žilvinas Švedkauskas

7. Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Macedonian Geopolitical Considerations between Pan-Slavic Euroscepticism and European Integration

Aleksandar Sazdovski

8. EU Security Community in Moldova: The Tug-of-War Between East and West

Dorina Baltag

9. The Jagiellonian Moment and Beyond: Identities and Geopolitics in Poland after 2022

Aliaksei Kazharski

10. Waiting for the Order to Change: How the Russo-Ukrainian War Affected the Mixture of Serbian Geopolitical Traditions

Marko Kovačević and Miloš Vukelić

11. Slovakia’s post-2022 Ontological liminality in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Moving Toward Permanent Liminality?

Danijela Čanji

12. How Slovenians became Zahodnjaki: Slovenia's Changing Notions of Central Europeanness Following Russia's Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine

Alicja Curanović

13. Türkiye and the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War: Civilizational Identity and the “Hero” Character

Lacin Idil Oztig, Asli Ege

14. Away from the East: Ukraine’s Politics of Belonging During the War

Yuliia Kurnyshova

Conclusions. Redefining Imaginaries in the Wake of Russia's War in Ukraine: Shifting Identities and Narratives in Europe

Laure Delcour

Index

Biography

Aliaksei Kazharski received his Ph.D. from Comenius University in Bratislava in 2015. He has worked at Charles University in Prague and has been a guest researcher at the universities of Oslo, Tartu, Vienna, Malmö, and Uppsala, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM), and the Polish Academy of Sciences. He published two monographs: Eurasian Integration and the Russian World. Regionalism as an Identitary Enterprise (CEUPress 2019) and Central Europe Thirty Years after the Fall of Communism. A Return to the Margin? 2022, winner of the International Studies Association, Global International Relations Section 2022-2023 Book Award).

Andrey Makarychev is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies. He is the author ofPopular Biopolitics and Populism at Europe’s Eastern Margins (2022), and co-authored five monographs: Celebrating Borderlands in a Wider Europe: Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia (2016), Lotman's Cultural Semiotics and the Political (2017), Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet: from Populations to Nations (2020), Practical Biopolitics of COVID-19: Comparing Russian and Indonesian Experiences (2023) and Biopower in Putin’s Russia: From Taking Care to Taking Lives (CEU Press, 2024).