

PANEL CE1
Minorities and Security in the Baltic States
CHAIR
Angela Kachuyevski
(Arcadia U, US)
PAPERS
Jennie Schulze
(Duquesne U, US)
Juris Pupcenoks
(Marist College, US)
Defense of the State: The Securitization of Russian-Speakers
in the Baltic States in the Context of the War in Ukraine
Anne Jürgens
(Heidelberg U, Germany)
anne.juergens@zuv.uni-heidelberg.de
The Russian-Speaking Population in Ukraine and the Baltics
as an Element of Analysis with Regard to the War in Ukraine and Baltics Politics
Olga Talal
(Queen’s U, Canada)
Securitization of Transborder Minorities in Ethnic States:
A Comparison of Lithuania and the Kyrgyz Republic
Konstantinas Andrijauskas
(Vilnius U, Lithuania)
konstantinas.andrijauskas@tspmi.vu.lt
“Surrounded” by Dictatorships: Lithuania’s Securitization of
and Political Performance on Its International Borders
Nikita Lumijoe
(Old Dominion U, US)
Attitudes of Ethnic Minorities towards National Defense
and Security in Triadic Nexus: The Case of Estonia
DISCUSSANT
Eleanor Knott
(LSE, UK)