The politics of becoming European

• Series Editor Preface
• p. ix

• Preface
• p. xi

• Acknowledgements
• p. xiv

• 1
• The politics of becoming European
• p. 1

• 2
• Dialogical understanding of collective identity formation
• p. 8

• Self and other in constructivist International Relations theory
• p. 9

• Bakhtin's dialogism and its value for International Relations
• p. 20

• Towards the relational study of international relations
• p. 26

• 3
• Liminality in the politics of becoming
• p. 29

• The security imaginary
• p. 30

• The alteration of the security imaginary
• p. 34

• Foucaultian discourse analysis
• p. 49

• 4
• 'Becoming European' as identity politics: Europe old and new
• p. 55

• Europe, 'Europe', and 'Europe but not Europe'
• p. 57

• 'Old' and 'new' Europe
• p. 64

• 'Modern' and 'postmodern' Europe
• p. 67

• Polish and Baltic responses to 'liminal Europeanness'
• p. 73

• Conclusion
• p. 80

• 5
• The memory politics of becoming European: the East European subalterns and the collective memory of Europe
• p. 83

• Reclaiming the 'right to memory'
• p. 86

• 'Our history is your history too': hegemonic and counter- hegemonic European narratives of the Second World War
• p. 89

• 'East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet'?
• p. 120

• 6
• The 'carnival' of Iraq as the meeting point for identity, memory and security politics of becoming European
• p. 123

• Mobilizing the 'new European' security imaginary: the discursive carnival of Iraq
• p. 128

• Interacting imaginaries: the contents of 'the European' in the debates over Iraq
• p. 141

• Conclusions from the 'carnival' of Iraq
• p. 145

• 7
• Conclusion: how we become what we are
• p. 149

• Notes
• p. 155

• Bibliography
• p. 165

• Index
• p. 200