This article unpacks the ways Eastern Europe (broadly conceived) has featured as a space, trope, and scholarly origin in major International Security Studies (ISS) and International Relations (IR) journals over the past three decades. A framing and authorship analysis in 18 disciplinary journals between 1991 and 2019 demonstrates how the region has been instrumental for the ISS subfield as an exemplary student of the Western theory and practice of IR. Eastern Europe has served as a symbolic space for exercising the civilising mission of the West and testing the related theories (security community building, democratisation, modernisation, Europeanisation, norm diffusion) in practice. The relative dearth of East European voices in ISS and leading IR theory journals speaks volumes about the politics of knowledge production and the analytical economy of the field. The positionality of East European ‘captive minds’ complicates ‘worlding’ IR from the region. The East European subalterns are largely enfolded in the definitive discourses of the field, and their power through disciplinary journals remains marginal.

本文揭示了东欧（广义上的）在过去三十年中在主要国际安全研究 (ISS) 和国际关系 (IR) 期刊中作为空间、比喻和学术起源的方式。1991 年至 2019 年间 18 种学科期刊的框架和作者身份分析表明，该地区如何作为西方 IR 理论和实践的模范学生对 ISS 子领域发挥了重要作用。东欧作为西方文明使命的象征空间，在实践中检验了相关理论（安全共同体建设、民主化、现代化、欧洲化、规范扩散）。国际空间站和领先的 IR 理论期刊中东欧声音的相对缺乏充分说明了知识生产的政治和该领域的分析经济。东欧“俘虏思想”的位置使该地区的“世界化”IR复杂化。东欧下层在很大程度上被卷入了该领域的权威话语中，他们通过学科期刊的影响力仍然微不足道。