title: Baltic States’ EU membership: discursive search for (and failure to obtain) farewell from Russia
abstract: The article assesses the EU membership of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with a special focus on their attempts, already as EU members to change their relations with Russia, which remains their 'significant Other'. We employ the discourse-historical analysis and focus on the evolution of the Baltic strategic discourse towards three themes, particularly contested by Russia, including the domestic interethnic issues, politics of memory and the elements of the constitutional identities of three Balt
journal: Journal of Contemporary European Studies