Geopolitics of ‘the Lands in Between:’ alliance politics, energy security and historical memory in the Baltic states, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine - Dr Donatas Kupciunas
Russian invasion of Ukraine put a spotlight on the curious region, stretching from the Baltic to the Black sea, which had been, in different periods, thought of as Europe’s periphery, buffer, barrier or cordon sanitaire. From the fourteenth century onwards, the region had shared deeply interconnected history, most of which was about geopolitics. The aim of this course is to help students orient themselves in the geopolitics, both material and ideational, of this increasingly important area.