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The external constitution of European identity: Russia and Turkey as Europe-makers

dc.contributor.coauthorMorozov, Viatcheslav
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of International Relations
dc.contributor.kuauthorRumelili, Bahar
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Administrative Sciences and Economics
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T23:53:26Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThe view of identities as always situated in a relationship with the Other underlies contemporary constructivist social theory. Taking a step further, and combining constructivist approaches to identity with insights from post-colonial studies, this article argues that the Other, far from being a mere presence, often plays an active role in identity politics. By tracing the historically varying ways in which Turkey and Russia have engaged in European identity construction, it demonstrates that this is an interactive process of negotiation between the European Self and its external Others in which agency of the Other is revealed. In particular, Russia and Turkey exercise agency by challenging, each in its own manner, the EU's power to define the normative meaning of Europe. While Turkey has contributed to a decentring of European identity by challenging the self-perception of Europe as a multicultural space, Russia's uncompromising stance tends to consolidate the EU-centred image of Europe as a political community based on liberal democratic values.
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dc.description.issue1
dc.description.openaccessNO
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.volume47
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0010836711433124
dc.identifier.eissn1460-3691
dc.identifier.issn0010-8367
dc.identifier.quartileQ2
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dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0010836711433124
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/15023
dc.identifier.wos301287100002
dc.keywordsAgency
dc.keywordsIdentity
dc.keywordsOthering
dc.keywordsPost-colonialism
dc.keywordsRussia
dc.keywordsTurkey
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage
dc.relation.ispartofCooperation and Conflict
dc.subjectInternational relations
dc.subjectPolitical science
dc.titleThe external constitution of European identity: Russia and Turkey as Europe-makers
dc.typeJournal Article
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