European Identities and Foreign Policy Discourses on Russia

This book examines the relationship between national identity construction and current foreign policy discourses on Russia in selected European Union member states in 2014-2018.

Autorentext

Marco Siddi is Senior Research Fellow in the European Union Programme at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), Finland.

Inhalt

1. Identity, Memory and the Russian Other 2. Identity and Foreign Policy: A discourse-historical approach 3. The Historic Construction of German, Polish and Finnish Identities and their Russian Other 4. Confronting the Russian Other The Ukraine Crisis 5. The EU's Discursive Strife on Nord Stream 2 6. The Russian Other in the Syrian Crisis and MENA Geopolitics Conclusion: (Dis)United We Stand? National discourses and the Russian Other, 20142018