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Identity Politics and International Security of the Post-Soviet European States
- Authors: Fadeeva L.A.1, Plotnikov D.S.1
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Affiliations:
- Perm State University
- Issue: Vol 23, No 4 (2021): Identity in the Political Constructions of Modernity
- Pages: 614-629
- Section: IDENTITY IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/29535
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-1438-2021-23-4-614-629
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In the article, identity politics is understood as an intentional policy towards forcing and maintaining a macro-political identity. The authors also refer to the traditional understanding of identity politics as a political course focused on protecting the rights of oppressed (deprived) minorities. The object of the research is the European countries of the post-Soviet space. The authors emphasize the dominance of the international (European) vector of political identity, based on the position declared in official speeches and confirmed in the media and history textbooks. The authors identify several stages that determine the algorithm of identity politics in the Baltic countries, the Ukraine and Belarus. They give examples of how in modern conditions the reference to value orientations actualizes the classical understanding of identity politics, at the same time exacerbating the confrontation between the countries that have chosen the European vector and those who hesitate or do not have such a chance.
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Lyubov A. Fadeeva
Perm State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: polsci@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3389-750X
Doctor of Historical Science, Professor of the Political Science Department
Perm, Russian FederationDmitrij S. Plotnikov
Perm State University
Email: plotnikov.perm@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6846-044X
PhD of Political Science of the Political Science Department
Perm, Russian FederationReferences
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