Uses Of The Other: ''The East'' in European Identity Formation (Borderlines series)

The field of international relations has recently witnessed a tremendous growth of interest in the theme of identity and its formation, construction, and deconstruction. In Uses of the Other , Iver B. Neumann demonstrates how thinking about identity in terms of the self and other may prove highly useful in the study of world politics. Neumann begins by tracing the four different paths along which this thinking has developed during this century -- ethnographic, psychological, Continental philosophical, and "Eastern excursion" -- and he shows how these blended at the margins of the discipline of international relations at the end of the 1980s. There follow several incisive readings of European identity formations on the all-European, regional, and national levels. The theme that draws these readings together is how "the East" is used as a sign of otherness at all three levels. Whereas previous studies framed this process as part of colonial and postcolonial developments, this book suggests that "Easternness" is also present as a marker in contemporary discourses about Russia, Turkey, Central Europe, and Bashkortostan, among others. Contents......Page 10 Preface......Page 12 1. Uses of the Other in World Politics......Page 18 2. Making Europe: The Turkish Other......Page 56 3. Making Europe: The Russian Other......Page 82 4. Making Regions: Northern Europe......Page 130 5. Making Regions: Central Europe......Page 160 6. Making Nations: Russia......Page 178 7. Making Nations: Bashkortostan......Page 200 8. Conclusion: Self and Other after the Death of the Sovereign Subject......Page 224 Notes......Page 246 References......Page 260 A......Page 284 B......Page 285 C......Page 286 E......Page 287 F......Page 288 H......Page 289 K......Page 290 M......Page 291 N......Page 292 P......Page 293 R......Page 294 S......Page 295 T......Page 296 W......Page 297 Z......Page 298