Table 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.

Promotional Information

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

Reviews

'The work by Ilya Prizel is a theoretically sophisticated analysis of ... how different strands of nationalism evolve in dialectic interaction with the outside world.' NOD and Conversion ' ... Prizel's study bristles with thought-provoking insights ...' Political Studies