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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816275803321

Titolo

Ideology and national identity in post-communist foreign policies / / editor, Rick Fawn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or., : Frank Cass Publishers, 2004

ISBN

0-203-48754-0

1-280-07823-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FawnRick

Disciplina

327/.09171/7

Soggetti

Nationalism

Post-communism

Europe, Eastern Foreign relations 1989-

Former Soviet republics Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This group of studies first appeared in a specia issue of The Journal of communist studies and transition politics 19/3 (September 2003)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ideology and National Identity in Post-Communist Foreign Policies; Copyright; Contents; Ideology and National Identity in Post-Communist Foreign Policies; In Search of an Identity: Russian Foreign Policy and the End of Ideology; Marking Time in the Middle Ground: Contested Identities and Moldovan Foreign Policy; The Role of Cultural Paradigms in Georgian Foreign Policy; National Identity from Scratch: Defining Kyrgyzstan's Role in World Affairs; Eurasian Bridge or Murky Waters between East and West? Ideas, Identity and Output in Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy

'The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea': European Integration, National Identity and Foreign Policy in Post-Communist EstoniaOvercoming the Burden of History in Polish Foreign Policy; Reconstituting a National Identity: Ideologies in Czech Foreign Policy after the Split; Abstracts; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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has been replaced by nationalism and establishes how these states express their national identities through foreign policy.