Republic of Estonia Materials on International Law 2009
Journal: Baltic Yearbook of International Law Online
Year: 2010

A CURIOUS EXCEPTIONALISMPerhaps no country more than Russia occupies the role of 'the Other' in Western-oriented governance.No other world political actor is so comprehensively identified with a set of negative connotations, from Stalin's Gulag to security state totalitarianism.Moreover, these images seem all the more real in today's political milieu: Russia's stance against the LGBT community, its imprisonment of Pussy Riot, its recent incursion into Crimea and Ukraine, and 1 2 3 the mysterious