Crisis and Change in Post-Cold War Global Politics

Offers an original contribution to re-thinking the study of crises in International Relations
Combines theoretical investigations with original research based on fieldwork in the region
Takes a comparative perspective through a broad array of researchers based in various countries, including Brazil and Turkey, and develop an international perspective on the crisis in Ukraine

Autorentext
Erica Resende is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Superior War College, Brazil, and Affiliate Lecturer at the University of Oklahoma, USA.
**Dovil Budryt is Professor of Political Science at Georgia Gwinnett College, USA.
**Didem Buhari-Gulmez is Associate Professor in International Relations at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.

Inhalt
1: Introduction.- 2: Crisis and Change in Global Politics: A Dialogue with Deleuze and Badiou's Event to Understand the Crisis in Ukraine.- 3: The Rationality and Emotion of Russian Historical Memory: The Case of Crimea.- 4: Collective Trauma, Memories and Victimization Narratives in Modern Strategies of Ethnic Consolidation: The Crimean Tatar Case.- 5: Corruption, Crisis, and Change: Use and Misuse of an Empty Signifier.- 6: Gender-role Scenarios of Women's Participation in Euromaidan Protests in Ukraine.- 7: Memory, War and Mnemonical In/Security: A Comparison of Lithuania and Ukraine.- 8: Framing of Crimean Annexation and Eastern Ukraine Conflict in Newspapers of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 2014.- 9: Crisis and Crimean Tatars: Discourses of Self-Determination in Flux.- 10: The Self/Other Space and Spinning the Net of Ontological Insecurities in Ukraine and beyond: (Discursive) Reconstructions of Boundaries in the EU Eastern Partnership Countries vis-à-vis the EU and Russia.