National Identity and Foreign Policy - Nationalism and Leadership in Poland, Russia and Ukraine

List of contents

Introduction: a statement of the arguments; 1. National identity and foreign policy: a dialectical relationship; 2. Polish identity 1795-1944: from romanticism to positivism to ethno-nationalism; 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. Post-World War II Ukraine: birth pangs of a modern identity; 10. Foreign policy as a means of nation building.

Summary

Examining the recent history of Poland, Russia and Ukraine, this book examines how national identity affects foreign policy decisions.

Product details

• Authors: Prizel Ilya, Ilya Prizel, Ilya (The Johns Hopkins University) Prizel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.08.1998
• EAN: 9780521571579
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57157-9
• No. of pages: 460
• Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet & Po
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education