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- Title
Russian war, Estonian exceptions: Sovereignty, governmentality, biopolitics.
- Authors
Makarychev, Andrey
- Abstract
The author analyzes Estonia as a case study to explore two interrelated research questions – how exceptions are produced and reversed through the mechanisms of sovereignty and governmentality projected onto geo- and biopolitical domains, and how the new practices of exceptionalization and de-exceptionalization contribute to the emergence of a new spatial order at Europe's eastern margins? Three types of policies unfolded in Estonia as reactions to the Russian war against Ukraine are identified. First, the Estonian government introduced extraordinary measures based on the logic of national interests, which left much space for discretionary power to define risks, threats, and dangers. Secondly, some policy domains were intentionally de-exceptionalized for the sake of their better integration into Estonian normative space and as a reaction to the effects of the war. Third, in some cases there were exceptions from exceptions, which meant certain steps back toward normalization of the previously taken exceptional measures. The theoretical frame of the article consists of two nodal concepts – sovereignty and governmentality to be projected onto geo- and biopolitics treated as spheres in which sovereign and governmental powers operate and expose their political qualities.
- Subjects
RUSSIA; ESTONIA; WAR; EXCEPTIONS (Law); SOVEREIGNTY; GOVERNMENTALITY; BIOPOLITICS (Sociobiology); POWER (Social sciences)
- Publication
New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central & East European Politics & International Relations, 2024, Vol 32, Issue 3, p290
- ISSN
2336-825X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/2336825X241240929