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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2009
Print publication year:
1998
Online ISBN:
9780511582929
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582929
Subjects:
Area Studies, Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
Series:
Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (103)
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Book description

This book is based on the premise that the foreign policy of any country is heavily influenced by a society's evolving notions of itself. Applying his analysis to Russia, Poland, and Ukraine, the author argues that national identity is an ever-changing concept, influenced by internal and external events, and by the manipulation of a polity's collective memory. The interaction of the narrative of a society and its foreign policy is therefore paramount. This is especially the case in East-Central Europe, where political institutions are weak, and social coherence remains subject to the vagaries of the concept of nationhood. Ilya Prizel's study will be of interest to students of nationalism, as well as of foreign policy and politics in East-Central Europe.

Awards

Winner of the 1999 Marshall Shulman Book Prize

Reviews

‘The work by Ilya Prizel is a theoretically sophisticated analysis of … how different strands of nationalism evolve in dialectic interaction with the outside world.’

Source: NOD and Conversion

‘ … Prizel’s study bristles with thought-provoking insights …’

Source: Political Studies

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