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By Patricia Goff, Kevin C. Dunn

ISBN-10: 1403963797

ISBN-13: 9781403963796

ISBN-10: 1403980497

ISBN-13: 9781403980496

This amassed quantity attracts jointly essays written via IR students from numerous local, methodological, and theoretical views to confront the demanding situations of identity-centered research. specifically, the participants search to explain the overall which means and methodological implications of the widely said, but principally unexamined, statement that identities are relational, fluid, developed, and multiple.

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I now turn to the proposed second layer of discourse, consisting of variously proposed structural relations between the basic constellations of the first layer and the collective’s conceptualizations of Europe. Historically, there have evolved two such possible relations from basic constellations one: Russian leadership (2–1) and Russia versus Europe (2–2). There is a very good reason why the ways in which the structure of Russo-European relations emerge in the second layer of Russian European discourse, with one exception, involve the two entities Russia and Europe, and not the whole gamut of Great Powers.

3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1 The layers of Russian (R) discourse on Europe (E). Layer 1, basic concepts; layer 2, general policy; layer 3, historical examples Politics, then, was not conceptualized as mediation between groups, but as a struggle by a monolithic human collective—the Soviet Union—for objective emancipation. Contradictions in politics were relegated to the outside—to relations between the Soviet Union and other collectives, to relations between the international proletariat led by the Soviet Union and other collectives, to contradictions between collectives other than the Soviet Union.

On the other hand, he refers to amongst others the West European countries as “more developed” and insists that Russia travel along the same “path” as they do. Both moves serve to forge a compromise between the two main political camps in the Russia of the 1990s. This is indeed the explicit aim: in order to avoid chaos, this split has to be overcome. The word used for split—raskol—refers to the deep religious split between old believers and Petrine doctrine of the late seventeenth century, yet another traumatic experience in Russian history.

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