1st Edition

Ideology and National Identity in Post-communist Foreign Policy

Edited By Rick Fawn Copyright 2004
    160 Pages
    by Routledge

    160 Pages
    by Routledge

    A comparative analysis of the foreign policies of eight post-communist states which considers the extent to which official communist ideology has been replaced by nationalism and establishes how these states express their national identities through foreign policy.

    Chapter 1 Ideology and National Identity in Post-Communist Foreign Policies, Rick Fawn; Chapter 2 In Search of an Identity: Russian Foreign Policy and the End of Ideology, Margot Light; Chapter 3 Marking Time in the Middle Ground: Contested Identities and Moldovan Foreign Policy, Charles King; Chapter 4 The Role of Cultural Paradigms in Georgian Foreign Policy, Stephen Jones; Chapter 5 National Identity from Scratch: Defining Kyrgyzstan's Role in World Affairs, Eugene Huskey; Chapter 6 Eurasian Bridge or Murky Waters between East and West? Ideas, Identity and Output in Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy, Sally N. Cummings; Chapter 7 ‘The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea’: European Integration, National Identity and Foreign Policy in Post-Communist Estonia, David J. Smith; Chapter 8 Overcoming the Burden of History in Polish Foreign Policy, George Sanford; Chapter 9 Reconstituting a National Identity: Ideologies in Czech Foreign Policy after the Split, Rick Fawn;

    Biography

    Rick Fawn