Securitization of Memory in the Pandemic Period: The Case of Russia and Latvia

Securitization of Memory in the Pandemic Period: The Case of Russia and Latvia

Securitization

memory

Russia

Latvia

Covid-19 pandemic

The article examines the processes of memory securitization in the RussianFederation and Latvia during the coronavirus crisis. The key factor thatallowed the authors to make such a statement about the problem was thetemporary coincidence of the pandemic with the 75th anniversary of thefinal defeat of Nazi Germany and the so-called Victory Day. As a theoreticalbasis for the study, we use the constructivist understanding of security inorder to study, with specific examples, how the threat in the form of apandemic became a frame for securitization of memory. The authorsidentify the peculiarities of the articulating of security problems by politicalelites in two states with different memory regimes framed by the pandemicas an external factor.

Pakhomenko, Sergii

Gridina, Iryna

Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 55 No. 4 (2020); 94-116

2788-2993

2788-2985

10.32422/mv.55.4

Institute of International Relations Prague

2020-12-01

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0

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eng

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