Renegotiating Estonia’s marginality in the imagined geography of Europe: Kaja Kallas’ Tweets about Russia’s war in Ukraine

Abstract

ABSTRACT Central and Eastern Europe leadership responses to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 have not only contributed to power shifts within European politics, but also to attempts to discursively reinterpret the region’s imagined geography. Based on a content analysis of over 500 Tweets related by Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas in the first year of the war, we examine how Kallas has endeavoured to reconfigure Estonia’s marginality through advocating to expand Europe’s moral geography to include Ukraine, representing Estonia as a voice of expertise on Russia from Europe’s edge, and depicting Estonia as the eastern flank of the Western world.