This text is based on the premise that the foreign policy of any country is 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, he maintains, going on to emphasize that 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.
- | Author: Ilya Prizel
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 13, 1998
- | Number of Pages: 460 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521576970
- | ISBN-13: 9780521576970
