National Identity and Foreign Policy

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National Identity and Foreign Policy is written by Ilya Prizel and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521576970 (ISBN 10) and 9780521576970 (ISBN 13).

This book is based on the premise that the foreign policy of any country is heavily 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. 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. Ilya Prizel's study will be of interest to students of nationalism, as well as of foreign policy and politics in East-Central Europe.