1st Edition
The Politics of Becoming European A study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War security imaginaries
1. The Politics of Becoming European 2. Dialogical Understanding of Collective Identity Formation 3. Liminality in the Politics of Becoming 4. ‘Becoming European’ as Identity Politics: Europe and Old and New 5. The Memory Politics of Becoming European: The East European Subalterns and the Collective Memory of Europe 6. The ‘Carnival’ of Iraq as the Meeting Point for Identity, Memory and Security Politics of Becoming European 7. Conclusion: How We Become What We Are
Biography
Maria Mälksoo is a Researcher at the International Centre for Defence Studies, Tallinn, Estonia and a Lecturer at the Institute of Government and Politics, University of Tartu, Estonia. Her main research interests include critical security studies, political anthropology and European memory politics.
'This is a remarkable and even daring book. In 154 pages Maria Ma¨lksoo, a researcher at the International Centre for Defense Studies in Tallinn, Estonia, fastidiously sets out to understand the post-Cold War politics of becoming European.' - Meike Wulf - (University of Maastricht) Journal of Baltic Studies.
