This book aims to inscribe the prominent Soviet semiologist Yurii Lotman into the analysis of political forms and components of power as seen from the context of various Russian-European encounters.

This volume emphasizes the movements of ideas in both directions--from Europe to the Caucasus and from the Caucasus to Europe. This illuminates a variety of issues, including rivalries between different systems, interaction between the South Caucasus and the European Union, and different ways of using European experiences for domestic reform.

This study provides a critical examination of biopolitics and the process of the subjectification of Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Estonia. The authors analyze multiple overlapping regimes of belonging, performativity, and debordering.