UID:
almahu_9949880638202882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 169 pages)
ISBN:
9781317205470
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1317205472
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9781315616612
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1315616610
Series Statement:
New international relations
Content:
What is the role of memories for the expansion of international society? By drawing on the English School approach to International Relations this edited volume argues that the memories of empire and suzerainty are key to understanding sociological aspects of the expansion of anarchical society. The expert contributors adopt a socio-historic conceptualization of entry into international society, aiming to move beyond the legalist analysis, and also explore the impact of identity-constructions and collective memories on the expansion of international society. Empirically, the volume investigates the entry into international society of Belarus, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia and Romania and studies memories that they activated along the way. While these memoires of bygone polities were used by state builders to make sense of international society and legitimise claims of the new entrants, they inadvertently also generated tensions and anxieties, which in many ways persist until this day. Both the theoretical angle and the empirical material presented in this volume are novel additions to the growing body of knowledge in historical International Relations. Exploring how memories and experiences of the past still complicate the entrants' positions in international society and to what degree ensuing tensions remain today, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of European International Relations, particularly those with a focus on Eastern Europe. --
Note:
Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Series editor foreword; List of contributors; 1. Introduction; From expansion to enlargement; Memory, the chronological aspect of identity; The rest of the book; Notes; References; 2. Belarus' entry into international society: Between a small nation-state and big narratives; Introduction; Historical timeline; National revival in the late imperial period: the birth of a narrative; Two attempts at entry: Belarusian People's Republic and the Republic of Belarus; Belarus between the outer and inner tier?
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ConclusionsNotes; References; 3. Bulgaria's (re)entry into international society; Introduction; Building the nation and the state; Myths of nationhood and international society; Back to the future after 1989; The question of the Other(s); Conclusion; Notes; References; 4. Greece's entry into international society; Introduction; Historical memories and the Greek identity: an overview; Great powers and the management of the post-Vienna European order; The logic of culture; Framing the Greek War of Independence; Establishing communication channels with Europe; Adopting European practices
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Greece's entry into international societyConclusion; Notes; References; 5. Through the East to the West: Poland's (re)entry into international society and the sway of memories of the Polish; Introduction; The Polish Golden Age and the construction of the usable past; Polish foreign policy after 1918: history misused; Polish return to Europe after 1989 -- the memories forgotten; Conclusions; Notes; References; 6. From Dacia to modern Europe: Imagined temporal bridges and the politics of identity construction; Introduction; The politics of remembering the Roman past
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The Ottoman "other"and the French connection in Romanian self-definitionBack to Europe after the collapse of communism; Notes; References; 7. Memories of Empire and Serbia's entry into international society; Introduction; Collective memories and entry into international society; Medieval Serbia and the Byzantine system of states; Medieval memories and the resurrection of Empire; Medieval memories and Yugoslavia; Conclusion; Notes; References; 8. Slovakia's layered entry into international society and the possibilities of its exit; Introduction
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Entry into international society as a layered processGreat Moravia and Byzantine state-building efforts in Central Europe; Lost in translatio imperii: orientation towards Russia as the constitutive error of Slovak nation- and state-building; The life of a constitutive error: Slovakia "between East and West"; Conclusion: exit is just as important as entry; Notes; References; 9. Conclusion; References; Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Memories of empire and entry into international society. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business, 2017 ISBN 9781138672000
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315616612
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