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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Understanding a Functioning Democracy -- 1 Historic Discontinuities: Shaping Poland's Political Traditions -- Beginnings: Dynastic Poland -- Democratic Breakthrough: The Republican Commonwealth -- Reform and Breakdown: The Destruction of the Commonwealth -- Resistance: The Struggle for Independence -- Political Traditions: Polonia Reconstituta -- 2 The Communist Era: The System and Its Crises -- The Soviet Model and Its Polish Variant -- The International Environment -- Socialist Socioeconomic Development -- Political Culture -- Political Structures and Ruling Coalitions -- Popular Mobilization Against Communist Rule -- Impasse -- 3 Regime Change and Democratization -- The Players of Transition -- Roundtable Procedures -- Roundtable Bargaining -- The June 1989 Elections -- After the June Elections: The End of the Communist Party? -- Implications of the Polish Transition -- 4 The Political Players: Elites, Parties, and Other Actors in the Third Republic -- Winners and Losers in the New Democratic Games, 1989-2001 -- Political Elites -- Parties and the Party System -- Other Players on the Political Scene -- 5 The Played Upon: Society -- Cleavages -- Electoral Behavior -- Mass Political Attitudes -- Popular Protests -- Economic Interests versus Religion and the Past -- 6 Political and Economic Arenas: The Institutions of the Third Republic -- Political Structures -- Economic Structures -- 7 Policy Challenges Shaping Poland's Future -- European or Polish? The European Union, NATO, and Neighbors -- Addressing Economic Inequalities: Globalization or Paternalism? -- Forging Effective and Transparent Institutions -- A Secular State for a Catholic Nation: Social, Cultural, and Ethnic Policies -- Notes

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1: Rethinking how historically exceptional Russia has been -- Introduction -- Explaining exceptionalism -- Mapping Russia's exceptionalism -- Alexander II: Prototype of an absorbed Tsar -- A nation defined by war? -- Exceptionalist extrapolations -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Beyond the core: Conceptualising Russia's Hybrid Exceptionalism in times of war -- Introduction -- Russia's Hybrid Exceptionalism - conceptualised -- From feigned liberalism to civilisational war -- Towards civilisationism -- The future of Hybrid Exceptionalism -- Conclusion: whither decolonisation? -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Mission narrative in Russian foreign policy: The Comparative Perspective -- The sense of mission in the age of empires: the formative period -- Mission narrative in today's Russian foreign policy: an overview -- Russian sense of mission in comparative perspective -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Squaring the circle: Legitimizing the Putin regime after February 24, 2022 -- Introduction -- Master myth I: The great power myth -- Master myth II: The Time of Troubles and the phoenix -- Master myth III: The bulwark and its champion -- Supplementary myth I: The action man -- Supplementary myth II: The elder statesman and stabilizer -- Supplementary myth III: The benevolent ruler -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Exception and analogical reasoning in Ukrainian and Russian political discourses -- Introduction -- Theorizing exceptions and analogies -- Analogical reasoning and normalization -- Deconstructing Russian exceptionalism -- Ukraine -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Messianic discourses and the ideology of Putinism -- Introduction.

A new introduction to contemporary nationhood that sets it apart from national identity, nationalism and diversityDrawing on extensive research in transnationalism and ethnic conflict around the world, Raymond Taras introduces the concepts of nation and nationalism as they now stand in light of major demographic changes brought about by global migration. The result is a framework for understanding the emergence of postmodern nationhood in the era of globalisation and beyond.Based on rich case studies of immigration worldwide, Taras shows that nationhood occurs when the receiving state negotiates ethnic differences to form a natural bond with immigrants, rather than insisting on blind loyalty to the majority culture. The goal is a broad, value-added society of diverse peoples and successful prevention of criminality, ghettoisation, extremism and even radicalisation through reasonable immigrant integration.Key FeaturesIntroduces the schools, tools and concepts needed to understand nationalismCovers both classic foundational theories and more recent theories of nationalism and national identityIncludes chapter-length case studies of 6 countries: America, Russia, India, Britain, South Africa and PeruEngages both theoretically and empirically with the study of nationalism todayShows the impact of immigration and globalisation on nationalism and national identity

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One. Fear and suspicion in contemporary politics -- Chapter Two. Reconnecting culture with foreign policy -- Chapter three. Reflections on designing research for the study of fear and foreign policy -- Chapter four. French Muslims and France's foreign policy -- Chapter Five. Poland's fixation with Russia: fear or reason? -- Chapter Six. Sweden: the limits of humanitarianism at home and abroad -- Chapter Seven. Summing up -- Select bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One. Studying phobias -- Chapter Two. Norms and models of migrant rights -- Chapter Three. From fears about immigrants to prejudices against Muslims -- Chapter Four. Islamophobia's deep structures and shallow stereotypes -- Chapter Five. France: from assimilation to affirmative action? -- Chapter Six. Germany: from multiculturalism to Realpolitik? -- Chapter Seven. Undoing Islamophobia -- Select bibliography -- Index

Bringing together leading scholars from Russia and outside experts on Russia, this book looks at the difference between the image Russia has of itself and the way it is viewed in the West. It discusses the historical, cultural and political foundations that these images are built upon, and goes on to analyse how contested these images are, and their impact on Russian identity. The book questions whether differing images explain fractiousness in Western-Russian relations in the new century, or whether distinct 'imaginary solitudes' offer a better platform from which to negotiate differences. Pr

In recent years, European political leaders from Angela Merkel to David Cameron have discarded the term multiculturalism and now express scepticism, critique and even hostility towards multicultural ways of organising their societies. Yet they are unprepared to reverse the diversity existing in their states. These contradictory choices have different political consequences in the 11 European countries examined in this book: Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Turkey. The future of European liberalism is being played out as multicultural notions of belonging, inclusion, tolerance and the national home are brought into question.