Memories of empire and entry into international society :
[Book]
views from the European periphery /
edited by Filip Ejdus.
New York, NY :
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business,
2017.
1 online resource (xii, 169 pages)
New international relations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
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
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
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
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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Memories of empire and entry into international society.
9781138672000
Collective memory-- Europe.
Group identity-- Europe.
International relations-- Philosophy.
Collective memory.
Diplomatic relations.
Group identity.
International relations-- Philosophy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- International Relations-- General.