1st Edition
European Identities and Foreign Policy Discourses on Russia From the Ukraine to the Syrian Crisis
By Marco Siddi
Copyright 2020
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the relationship between national identity construction and current foreign policy discourses on Russia in selected European Union member states in 2014–2018.
It shows that divergent national discourses on Russia derive from the different ways in which the country was constructed in national identity. The book develops an interpretive theoretical framework and argues that... Read more
1. Identity, Memory and the Russian Other
2. Identity and Foreign Policy: A discourse-historical approach
3. The Historic Construction of German, Polish and Finnish Identities and their Russian Other
4. Confronting the Russian Other – The Ukraine crisis
5. The EU’s Discursive Strife on Nord Stream 2
6. The Russian Other in the Syrian Crisis and MENA Geopolitics
Conclusion: (Dis)United We Stand? National discourses and the Russian Other, 2014-2018
Biography
Marco Siddi is Senior Research Fellow in the European Union Programme at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), Finland.
