In international politics size and location matter above all else. On both counts Estonia, a northern European country on the Baltic Sea, suffers from severe disadvantages. It is tiny, with a population of just over 1.3 million; and it has a giant neighbor that is ill-disposed to it: Russia. Peoples such as the Estonians seldom manage to achieve, let alone maintain, sovereign independence. Their more powerful neighbors usually gobble them up. What explains the Estonian exception to this rule?In his play A Streetcar Named Desire, the playwright Tennessee Williams has the character Blanche DuBois say that she has “always depended …read more
Source: The American Interest
