Wilson Center Experts
Martha Merritt
Research Grant
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
; Lithuania
Affiliation:
Associate Dean of the College, University of Chicago
Wilson Center Project(s):
Imagining the Baltic States: Ethnicity and Apocalypse in Russian Foreign Policy
Project Summary
Russias three tiny Baltic neighbors have come to be perceived in Russia as markers for western imperialism and an assault on Slavic identity; links the often apocalyptic rhetoric emanating from Russia about the Baltic states with a profound and historically-rooted fear of vulnerability