Russian war, Estonian exceptions: Sovereignty, governmentality, biopolitics

IF 1 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Andrey Makarychev
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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.
俄罗斯的战争,爱沙尼亚的例外:主权、政府性、生物政治学
作者将爱沙尼亚作为一个案例进行分析,以探讨两个相互关联的研究问题--例外是如何通过投射到地缘和生物政治领域的主权和政府性机制产生和逆转的,以及例外化和去例外化的新做法如何促进欧洲东部边缘新空间秩序的出现?本文指出了爱沙尼亚为应对俄罗斯对乌克兰的战争而采取的三类政策。首先,爱沙尼亚政府基于国家利益的逻辑推出了非常措施,这为界定风险、威胁和危险的自由裁量权留下了很大的空间。其次,为了更好地融入爱沙尼亚的规范空间,并作为对战争影响的反应,一些政策领域被有意去例外化。第三,在某些情况下,例外中存在例外,这意味着先前采取的例外措施向正常化的某些后退。文章的理论框架由两个节点概念组成--主权和政府性,这两个概念将被投射到地缘政治和生物政治中,被视为主权和政府权力运作并暴露其政治特质的领域。
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New Perspectives POLITICAL SCIENCE-
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期刊介绍: New Perspectives is an academic journal that seeks to provide interdisciplinary insight into the politics and international relations of Central and Eastern Europe. New Perspectives is published by the Institute of International Relations Prague.
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