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The aim of this dissertation is to reveal the relationship between the collective identity of Lithuanian foreign policy decision-makers, the concept of Lithuanian identity and national interests as articulated by these persons and particular foreign policy choices. Based on the constructivism theory of international relations, the paper formulates theoretical assumptions to research processes involved in foreign policy decision making and state identity formation. Aspects of the constructivism theory in international relations are examined and key ideas are highlighted and used in the analysis. The study distinguishes and addresses two main elements – the state identity and foreign policy decisions – by showing how the interaction of these elements enables to reveal the relationship between identity factors and foreign policy decision emergence and making. The formulated analysis principles allow to disclose how and what intersubjective values (identity perceptions) affect foreign policy decisions in practice. For this purpose, three Lithuanian foreign policy decisions are analyzed: 1) Lithuanian membership in NATO, 2) support for the US in the Iraq war, 3) formulation and realisation of the New Lithuanian Foreign Policy Concept (leadership in the region). Based on the results of empirical research, circumstances of Lithuanian foreign policy decision emergence and making are explained.

The aim of this dissertation is to reveal the relationship between the collective identity of Lithuanian foreign policy decision-makers, the concept of Lithuanian identity and national interests as articulated by these persons and particular foreign policy choices. Based on the constructivism theory of international relations, the paper formulates theoretical assumptions to research processes involved in foreign policy decision making and state identity formation. Aspects of the constructivism theory in international relations are examined and key ideas are highlighted and used in the analysis. The study distinguishes and addresses two main elements – the state identity and foreign policy decisions – by showing how the interaction of these elements enables to reveal the relationship between identity factors and foreign policy decision emergence and making. The formulated analysis principles allow to disclose how and what intersubjective values (identity perceptions) affect foreign policy decisions in practice. For this purpose, three Lithuanian foreign policy decisions are analyzed: 1) Lithuanian membership in NATO, 2) support for the US in the Iraq war, 3) formulation and realisation of the New Lithuanian Foreign Policy Concept (leadership in the region). Based on the results of empirical research, circumstances of Lithuanian foreign policy decision emergence and making are explained.

The aim of this dissertation is to reveal the relationship between the collective identity of Lithuanian foreign policy decision-makers, the concept of Lithuanian identity and national interests as articulated by these persons and particular foreign policy choices. Based on the constructivism theory of international relations, the paper formulates theoretical assumptions to research processes involved in foreign policy decision making and state identity formation. Aspects of the constructivism theory in international relations are examined and key ideas are highlighted and used in the analysis. The study distinguishes and addresses two main elements – the state identity and foreign policy decisions – by showing how the interaction of these elements enables to reveal the relationship between identity factors and foreign policy decision emergence and making. The formulated analysis principles allow to disclose how and what intersubjective values (identity perceptions) affect foreign policy decisions in practice. For this purpose, three Lithuanian foreign policy decisions are analyzed: 1) Lithuanian membership in NATO, 2) support for the US in the Iraq war, 3) formulation and realisation of the New Lithuanian Foreign Policy Concept (leadership in the region). Based on the results of empirical research, circumstances of Lithuanian foreign policy decision emergence and making are explained.

The aim of this dissertation is to reveal the relationship between the collective identity of Lithuanian foreign policy decision-makers, the concept of Lithuanian identity and national interests as articulated by these persons and particular foreign policy choices. Based on the constructivism theory of international relations, the paper formulates theoretical assumptions to research processes involved in foreign policy decision making and state identity formation. Aspects of the constructivism theory in international relations are examined and key ideas are highlighted and used in the analysis. The study distinguishes and addresses two main elements – the state identity and foreign policy decisions – by showing how the interaction of these elements enables to reveal the relationship between identity factors and foreign policy decision emergence and making. The formulated analysis principles allow to disclose how and what intersubjective values (identity perceptions) affect foreign policy decisions in practice. For this purpose, three Lithuanian foreign policy decisions are analyzed: 1) Lithuanian membership in NATO, 2) support for the US in the Iraq war, 3) formulation and realisation of the New Lithuanian Foreign Policy Concept (leadership in the region). Based on the results of empirical research, circumstances of Lithuanian foreign policy decision emergence and making are explained.

The aim of this dissertation is to reveal the relationship between the collective identity of Lithuanian foreign policy decision-makers, the concept of Lithuanian identity and national interests as articulated by these persons and particular foreign policy choices. Based on the constructivism theory of international relations, the paper formulates theoretical assumptions to research processes involved in foreign policy decision making and state identity formation. Aspects of the constructivism theory in international relations are examined and key ideas are highlighted and used in the analysis. The study distinguishes and addresses two main elements – the state identity and foreign policy decisions – by showing how the interaction of these elements enables to reveal the relationship between identity factors and foreign policy decision emergence and making. The formulated analysis principles allow to disclose how and what intersubjective values (identity perceptions) affect foreign policy decisions in practice. For this purpose, three Lithuanian foreign policy decisions are analyzed: 1) Lithuanian membership in NATO, 2) support for the US in the Iraq war, 3) formulation and realisation of the New Lithuanian Foreign Policy Concept (leadership in the region). Based on the results of empirical research, circumstances of Lithuanian foreign policy decision emergence and making are explained.

The aim of this dissertation is to reveal the relationship between the collective identity of Lithuanian foreign policy decision-makers, the concept of Lithuanian identity and national interests as articulated by these persons and particular foreign policy choices. Based on the constructivism theory of international relations, the paper formulates theoretical assumptions to research processes involved in foreign policy decision making and state identity formation. Aspects of the constructivism theory in international relations are examined and key ideas are highlighted and used in the analysis. The study distinguishes and addresses two main elements – the state identity and foreign policy decisions – by showing how the interaction of these elements enables to reveal the relationship between identity factors and foreign policy decision emergence and making. The formulated analysis principles allow to disclose how and what intersubjective values (identity perceptions) affect foreign policy decisions in practice. For this purpose, three Lithuanian foreign policy decisions are analyzed: 1) Lithuanian membership in NATO, 2) support for the US in the Iraq war, 3) formulation and realisation of the New Lithuanian Foreign Policy Concept (leadership in the region). Based on the results of empirical research, circumstances of Lithuanian foreign policy decision emergence and making are explained.

The aim of this dissertation is to reveal the relationship between the collective identity of Lithuanian foreign policy decision-makers, the concept of Lithuanian identity and national interests as articulated by these persons and particular foreign policy choices. Based on the constructivism theory of international relations, the paper formulates theoretical assumptions to research processes involved in foreign policy decision making and state identity formation. Aspects of the constructivism theory in international relations are examined and key ideas are highlighted and used in the analysis. The study distinguishes and addresses two main elements – the state identity and foreign policy decisions – by showing how the interaction of these elements enables to reveal the relationship between identity factors and foreign policy decision emergence and making. The formulated analysis principles allow to disclose how and what intersubjective values (identity perceptions) affect foreign policy decisions in practice. For this purpose, three Lithuanian foreign policy decisions are analyzed: 1) Lithuanian membership in NATO, 2) support for the US in the Iraq war, 3) formulation and realisation of the New Lithuanian Foreign Policy Concept (leadership in the region). Based on the results of empirical research, circumstances of Lithuanian foreign policy decision emergence and making are explained.

The aim of this dissertation is to reveal the relationship between the collective identity of Lithuanian foreign policy decision-makers, the concept of Lithuanian identity and national interests as articulated by these persons and particular foreign policy choices. Based on the constructivism theory of international relations, the paper formulates theoretical assumptions to research processes involved in foreign policy decision making and state identity formation. Aspects of the constructivism theory in international relations are examined and key ideas are highlighted and used in the analysis. The study distinguishes and addresses two main elements – the state identity and foreign policy decisions – by showing how the interaction of these elements enables to reveal the relationship between identity factors and foreign policy decision emergence and making. The formulated analysis principles allow to disclose how and what intersubjective values (identity perceptions) affect foreign policy decisions in practice. For this purpose, three Lithuanian foreign policy decisions are analyzed: 1) Lithuanian membership in NATO, 2) support for the US in the Iraq war, 3) formulation and realisation of the New Lithuanian Foreign Policy Concept (leadership in the region). Based on the results of empirical research, circumstances of Lithuanian foreign policy decision emergence and making are explained.

Discussions about monuments usually revolve not around the visual and aesthetic expression of monuments. Looking at the ongoing debate, one can assume that it is about how we understand what Lithuania is and what Lithuania is not – what we need to remember and what we need to forget in the narrative of Lithuania represented through monuments. In other words, they are related to certain collective images of Lithuania and the world around it. Although this assumption is made in the public debate, it is not verified at academic level. The objective of the research is to analyze what kind of identity of the Lithuanian state is created and represented through the monuments that stand in the public spaces of Lithuania. The author seeks to reveal the theoretical possibilities of the participation of monuments in the formation and representation of state identity and to show the role of monuments as identity construction practices in Lithuania. An analysis of monumental practices reveals that the debate about monuments is primarily shaped by political factors.

One of the biggest critiques for the constructivism in international relations discipline is the accusations of abstractiveness and having little substantive to say when talking about world politics. The article asserts that constructivism is not the typical theory of international relations or foreign policy analysis. Constructivism in the discipline is what every constructivist researcher makes of it, using a few fundamental statements about the analysis of social reality. In order to show how the constructivist international relations researchers apply the fundamental principles of the constructivist analysis of social reality to form their models of analysis, firstly, the article explains the metatheoretical assumptions of constructivism and the main problems that emerge trying to apply them in empirical research. Secondly, analysing three fundamental statements of metatheoretical constructivism (on intersubjective construction of meanings, relationship of ideas and materiality, and mutual constitutive relation of structure and agency) it is demonstrated how they are transformed and applied in more particular theoretical and empirical works of international politics. In the end several recommendation are provided on the main principles of constructivist research in international relations. Adapted from the source document.

The question raised in this dissertation is: how is foreign policy explained by analyzing the use of historical analogies by decision-makers in their public statements? The purpose of this study is to develop an analytical framework that will help one to analyze the role of historical analogies in foreign policy. This dissertation challenges conventional approaches to historical analogies. It claims that conventional approaches unduly restrict the role that historical analogies play in foreign policy because of the way they perceive variety of practices in which historical analogies are used, as well as their premises about history and language analysis. This dissertation argues against the arguments of conventional instrumental, cognitive and integrated approaches and claims that the scope of constitutive approach needs to be extended. An alternative conceptualization of historical analogies is built on premises of rule-oriented constructivism, speech act theory and dialogical analysis method. In order to demonstrate the significance of the alternative approach to historical analogies the model is applied to an illustrative analysis of the Cold War historical analogy used by the U.S. and Russia's officials in 2007–2008. The question whether a chance of a (new) Cold War between the U.S. and Russia was possible at that time is answered by showing what kind of rules policy-makers had constituted by using the Cold War historical analogy.

The question raised in this dissertation is: how is foreign policy explained by analyzing the use of historical analogies by decision-makers in their public statements? The purpose of this study is to develop an analytical framework that will help one to analyze the role of historical analogies in foreign policy. This dissertation challenges conventional approaches to historical analogies. It claims that conventional approaches unduly restrict the role that historical analogies play in foreign policy because of the way they perceive variety of practices in which historical analogies are used, as well as their premises about history and language analysis. This dissertation argues against the arguments of conventional instrumental, cognitive and integrated approaches and claims that the scope of constitutive approach needs to be extended. An alternative conceptualization of historical analogies is built on premises of rule-oriented constructivism, speech act theory and dialogical analysis method. In order to demonstrate the significance of the alternative approach to historical analogies the model is applied to an illustrative analysis of the Cold War historical analogy used by the U.S. and Russia's officials in 2007–2008. The question whether a chance of a (new) Cold War between the U.S. and Russia was possible at that time is answered by showing what kind of rules policy-makers had constituted by using the Cold War historical analogy.

The question raised in this dissertation is: how is foreign policy explained by analyzing the use of historical analogies by decision-makers in their public statements? The purpose of this study is to develop an analytical framework that will help one to analyze the role of historical analogies in foreign policy. This dissertation challenges conventional approaches to historical analogies. It claims that conventional approaches unduly restrict the role that historical analogies play in foreign policy because of the way they perceive variety of practices in which historical analogies are used, as well as their premises about history and language analysis. This dissertation argues against the arguments of conventional instrumental, cognitive and integrated approaches and claims that the scope of constitutive approach needs to be extended. An alternative conceptualization of historical analogies is built on premises of rule-oriented constructivism, speech act theory and dialogical analysis method. In order to demonstrate the significance of the alternative approach to historical analogies the model is applied to an illustrative analysis of the Cold War historical analogy used by the U.S. and Russia's officials in 2007–2008. The question whether a chance of a (new) Cold War between the U.S. and Russia was possible at that time is answered by showing what kind of rules policy-makers had constituted by using the Cold War historical analogy.

The question raised in this dissertation is: how is foreign policy explained by analyzing the use of historical analogies by decision-makers in their public statements? The purpose of this study is to develop an analytical framework that will help one to analyze the role of historical analogies in foreign policy. This dissertation challenges conventional approaches to historical analogies. It claims that conventional approaches unduly restrict the role that historical analogies play in foreign policy because of the way they perceive variety of practices in which historical analogies are used, as well as their premises about history and language analysis. This dissertation argues against the arguments of conventional instrumental, cognitive and integrated approaches and claims that the scope of constitutive approach needs to be extended. An alternative conceptualization of historical analogies is built on premises of rule-oriented constructivism, speech act theory and dialogical analysis method. In order to demonstrate the significance of the alternative approach to historical analogies the model is applied to an illustrative analysis of the Cold War historical analogy used by the U.S. and Russia's officials in 2007–2008. The question whether a chance of a (new) Cold War between the U.S. and Russia was possible at that time is answered by showing what kind of rules policy-makers had constituted by using the Cold War historical analogy.

Constructivism is one of the best developed and one of the most popular theoretical approaches in Foreign Policy analysis. The analytical tools of constructivism with its normative elements as values, norms, national identity are of fundamental importance for the deep and thorough foreign policy analysis. Constructivism helps to merge national and international analysis levels; it provides possibility to analyze and value foreign policy dynamics and to indicate the interdependence among foreign policy and national identity. While applying social constructivism, this article looks into the change of Lithuanian foreign policy and its ties with national identity, through the development and institutionalization of certain values and norms, as well as their inclusion into/and exclusion from foreign policy agenda. Evolution of Lithuanian foreign policy is seen through the lens of four periods: sovereignty period (1990-1994), period of integration into Euro-atlantic institutions (1994-2004), period of euphoria, when crucial foreign policy goals are reached and country starts to position itself in Euro-atlantic institutions (2004-2010), and the period of pragmatism and specialization (since 2010), when mainstreams, interests and goals within regional organizations are defined, and country can bring more attention to the process of specialized interest setting (energy security, nuclear safety and security, cybersecurity, ect.) within EU and NATO, including by closer cooperation with sub-regional countries Nordic, Baltic, as well as keeping in foreign policy agenda the promotion of Eastern European integration into EU and NATO. In the context of foreign policy dynamics, the perception of "we" and "the other" is one of the most interesting for constructivist scholars. The article identifies the dynamics of "we" category and basic trend in defining "the other" in Lithuanian foreign policy.[.]