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.
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