DSpace Community:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/51042026-04-15T05:39:14Z2026-04-15T05:39:14ZNATO and its partnerships in the Asia-Pacific vs. China’s “marching West”: a new international system in the making?Vernygora, Vladhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/59712022-09-16T06:31:16Z2017-09-17T00:00:00ZTitle: NATO and its partnerships in the Asia-Pacific vs. China’s “marching West”: a new international system in the making?
Authors: Vernygora, Vlad2017-09-17T00:00:00ZA Modern Empire and Its Public Diplomacy: On Russia’s Communication With EstoniaVernygora, VladBelonosova, Elizavetahttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/59702022-09-16T06:23:34Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: A Modern Empire and Its Public Diplomacy: On Russia’s Communication With Estonia
Authors: Vernygora, Vlad; Belonosova, Elizaveta
Abstract: Defining the Russian Federation as one of the four contemporary empires (Zielonka
2012), this article links the imperial paradigm (Parker 2010; Zielonka 2012, 2013, 2015;
Colomer 2017), social constructs building (Wendt 1992), strategic narrative theory
(Miskimmon et al. 2013), and soft power-associated public diplomacy instrumentarium
(Melissen 2005; Nye 2008; Cull 2008, 2009; Cowan and Arsenault 2008) into a single
conceptual framework to examine public diplomacy by the Russian Federation towards
the Republic of Estonia. This analysis assumes that Russia understands Estonia as its own
periphery in imperial terms. However, since Estonia already is an integral part of yet
another modern empire (the European Union), our article notifies that Russia is left with
a limited range of effective mechanisms of strategic communication with its Baltic
neighbours, and Estonia in particular. Respectively, we test the following claim: in order
to effectively project its strategic identity, system and policy narratives to Estonia, Russia
prefers using a range of public diplomacy mechanisms rather than other types of
communicational strategies. Empirically, we engage with eight annual reviews of the
Estonian Internal Security Service (2012-2019/20).2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThe unbearable lightness of permanent integration: why does the EU need to answer its Ukrainian question?Vernygora, Vladhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/59692022-09-16T06:14:43Z2013-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: The unbearable lightness of permanent integration: why does the EU need to answer its Ukrainian question?
Authors: Vernygora, Vlad
Abstract: The process of European integration has long ceased to be a ‘know-how’ of political science.
Nowadays, it is the discipline’s daily routine, the prose of life and the sublimation of Milan
Kundera’s “unbearable lightness of being.” There is a cost to bear, of course, but it is worth it.
For example, the Estonian understanding of integration is that the country is never again to
be in another version of the Soviet Union; the small Baltic/Nordic country is now heading to
its centennial in 2018 being called Eesti Vabariik or, if translated literally from Estonian into
English, the ‘Estonian Free State.’ Spain is integrating to keep Catalonia and the Basque
Country – after all, both Futbol Club Barcelona and Bilboko Athletic Kluba are still playing in
the Spanish La Liga, aren’t they? Apart from the rather beneficial financial side of integration
for the EU’s strongest economy, Germany is very much favouring the idea to ensure that it is
not to forget how and why the process commenced. There is also a very original ‘Greek way’ of
integration, but let’s be quiet about it for now.2013-01-01T00:00:00ZUkraine-New Zealand Relations: Promise of a Date?Chaban, NataliaVernygora, Vladhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/59632022-09-15T08:39:14Z2006-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Ukraine-New Zealand Relations: Promise of a Date?
Authors: Chaban, Natalia; Vernygora, Vlad
Abstract: Newly independent Ukraine has a growing international presence and an
increasing ambition to be a member of affluent international associations and
alliances. Since regaining its sovereignty in 1991, Ukraine has been outspoken
in its desire to eventually join the European Union (EU). This aspiration is
more meaningful with the country’s current active involvement in the Council
of Europe (CE).1
Ukraine’s image as an international actor is also shaped by its
much debated intention of entering NATO, as well as its participation in the
International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism
(‘Nuclear Terrorism Convention’).2
Above all, Ukraine’s firm will to become a
member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) engages the country with a
system of economic, political, and legal co-ordinates understood and followed
around the world2006-01-01T00:00:00Z