National Identities and Foreign Policy in the European Union

Marco Siddi is Senior Research Fellow at the European Union Research Programme of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.

Contents
List of Abbreviations ix
List of Tables xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Chapter One – Introduction: Identity, Memory and Russia as Europe’s Other 1
Chapter Two – Theorising National Identity and Foreign Policy 15
Chapter Three – National Identities in Historical Perspective 41
Chapter Four – The Nord Stream Pipeline and European Energy Security 67
Chapter Five – The August 2008 Russian–Georgian War 91
Chapter Six – Post-electoral Protests in Russia, 2011–12 117
Chapter Seven – Russia in the Ukraine Crisis: Again a Threatening Other? 137
Chapter Eight – Conclusion: Towards a Shared Discourse on Russia? 157
References 169
Index 201