| Title |
Sienos ir erdvės: konceptualizacijų paieškos XXI amžiaus teritoriniams konfliktams Rytų Europoje analizuoti / |
| Translation of Title |
Is populism a threat for the existence of representative democracy or its corrective mechanism? |
| Authors |
Jakniūnaitė, Dovilė |
| DOI |
10.15388/Polit.2016.3.10238 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Politologija.. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 2016, Nr. 3, p. 66-92.. ISSN 1392-1681. eISSN 2424-6034 |
| Keywords [eng] |
populism ; democracy ; “frozen” conflicts |
| Abstract [eng] |
The “frozen” territorial conflicts in Eastern Europe, which exist in the territorially divided world of sovereign states, provide the empirical context for this article in order to develop theoretical arguments. The main problem raised is the (im)possibility of the existence of the unrecognised territorial entities. The article questions how the concepts of space, territory and borders and the relationship between the territoriality and statehood in the current international relations practice and theory allow for understanding the situation in these entities. Thus, the goal is to evaluate the theoretical discussions on territoriality and borders regarding their applicability for the analysis of the “frozen” conflicts. Namely, to understand the subjectivity conditions of these entities and to comprehend how such analysis provides any new problematisations of the situation, how it gives framework to explain their strategies, behavior and the tendencies of normalisation. Three concepts (space, territory, and borders) are analysed in the article by raising three questions: a) how each of the concepts define (and constrain) the social reality and international politics; b) how such concepts are problematised; c) how such concepts help and can be used to understand the situation and possibilities of the marginal subject, which tries to overcome its own marginality, in contemporary international relations.... |
| Published |
Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2016 |
