Latvia’s eastern region: international tensions and political system loyalty

Geoffrey Pridham

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2018, vol. 49, issue 1, 3-20

Abstract: Latgale’s frontier region status makes it vulnerable in a time of growing international tension, all the more because of its strong Russian minority and persistent socio-economic problems causing disaffection. A two-directional analysis of linkage interactions – inner-directed and outer-directed – highlights both external threats and also regional conditions that act as a check on ‘hybrid warfare’ activity, such as centripetal center–periphery relations, stabilizing factors in society and a new policy response by Riga to Latgale’s developmental needs. Latgale is therefore no ‘Crimea’ as it shows a basic loyalty to the Latvian state, very little support for separatism while of course Latvia benefits from NATO membership.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2017.1413408

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