National identity and foreign policy : nationalism and leadership in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine /

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 extern...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Prizel, Ilya (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Series:Cambridge Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet studies ; 103.
Subjects:
Nationalism > Europe, Eastern > History.
Nationalisme > Europe de l'Est > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
Diplomatic relations.
Nationalism.
Politics and government
Europe, Eastern > Politics and government.
Europe, Eastern > Foreign relations.
Europe de l'Est > Politique et gouvernement.
Europe de l'Est > Relations extérieures.
Eastern Europe.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: statement of arguments
  • 1. National identity and foreign policy: a dialectical relationship
  • 2. Polish identity 1795-1944: from romanticism to positivism to ethnonationalism
  • 3. Poland after World War II: native conservatism and the return to Central Europe
  • 4. Polish foreign policy in perspective: a new encounter with positivism
  • 5. Russia's national identity and the accursed question: a strong state and a weak society
  • 6. Russian identity and the Soviet period
  • 7. Russia's foreign policy reconsidered
  • 8. Ukraine: the ambivalent identity of a submerged nation, 1654-1945
  • 9. Ukraine after World War II: birth pangs of a modern identity
  • 10. Foreign policy as a means of nation building.

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