Instruments of State Identity Policy in the Contemporary World

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The article is devoted to studying the development and specifics of using instruments of state identity policy in modern conditions of geopolitical challenges. The study contributes to clarifying scientific knowledge about the means by which state authorities strive to achieve their goals in identity construction. The differentiation of approaches among particular states in the conditions of modern geopolitical confrontation has been established. The study is based on the application of a comprehensive approach to determining the content of state identity policy. The empirical source of the study is the results of an expert survey of leading domestic researchers in the field of identity politics conducted in the fall of 2023 with the participation of the authors. Discourse analysis was used as a method for processing primary data. The main trends in the development of instruments of state identity policy in the conditions of the 2020s have been identified. The study allows for the clarification of knowledge about the limitations and limits of the effectiveness of the state in the field of identity construction.

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Olga V. Popova

Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Saint Petersburg University

Author for correspondence.
Email: pov_64@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0701-7767

Dr. Sci. (Pol. Sci.), Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, the Head of the Department of Political Institutes and Applied Political Studies, St. Petersburg State University

Moscow, Russian Federation; Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Nikolay V. Grishin

Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Saint Petersburg University

Email: nvgrishin@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0850-7581

Dr. Sci. (Pol. Sci.), Leading Research Fellow, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor of the Department of Political Institutions and Applied Political Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

Moscow, Russian Federation; Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

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