Instrumentalizing the Past: The Impact of History on Contemporary International Conflicts

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Instrumentalizing the Past

The Impact of History on Contemporary International Conflicts

Edited by: Jan Rydel and Stefan Troebst

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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In today's world, we can point to many international disputes and interstate conflicts fueled by past events. Historical resentments or memories of past suffering or fame are often used to justify political, economic and even territorial demands. Inter-state disputes and historical conflicts should be understood as evidence of political and social tensions related to active, serious differences in the assessment of the common past.

The book explains the role of such conflicts in international relations and suggests ways of classifying them. It presents examples of the internationally relevant instrumentalisation of history from different regions of the world and outlines ways of overcoming them.

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Jan Rydel, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland; Stefan Troebst, Universität Leipzig, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Jan Rydel and Stefan Troebst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
International Conflicts Employing History as Its Instrument: What they are and how to Measure them?
Historical Memory as a Variable: Two Analytic Frameworks Zheng Wang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
How (and why) to Measure Conflicts of Memory? Łukasz Kamiński Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
History as an Instrument of Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Between Orwell and Fukuyama. Poland and its Neighbours: Disputes over History Jan Rydel and Przemysław Łukasik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
Overcoming Conflicting Memories: History in the Polish-German Relations after 1989 Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
Heritage Burnt, Heritage Born – Paradox of “Space of Memory” in Conflicts: Ukraine’s Experience Reconsidered Olga Dudar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
The Accession Policy and Identity Conflict Olga Dianova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	79
Narrating Conflicts in Post-Truth Era: Facing Revisionist Russia. Ukraine and Georgia in a Comparative Perspective Malkhaz Toria and Mykola Balaban Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	91
The Dynamic Character of the Conflictual Historical Narrative (on the Example of the Georgian-Turkish Relations) Khatuna Chapichadze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
The Politics of Graves – Negotiations, Practice and Reactions about Fallen German Soldiers of World War Two and Their Resting Places in Russia Nina Janz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	133
Peaceful Foreign Policy and Remembrance of War Effort. The Conceptualisation of Willingness to Defend in Finland and Its Connections to Previous Armed Conflict, 1960s–1989 Teemu Häkkinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	147
History and Politics beyond Europe
Shadows of the Past. Japanese Imperial Policy and Its Influence on Contemporary Domestic and Foreign Policy of Japan Łukasz Stach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
Disputes over Public Memory of U.S. Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Case of Smithsonian’s Enola Gay Exhibitions (1994–2003) Grzegorz Nycz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
Japan’s Power in East Sumatra and South Sumatra Budi Agustono and Farida R. Wargadalem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
From Allies to Enemies; Putting the Israeli- Iranian Conflict in Historical Context Maya Hadar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
History and its Impact on Contemporary International Relations: The Case of Rwanda Joanna Bar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	231
Successes and Failures: Methods of Getting Out of Historical Conflicts
The Resurfacing of the “Titanic” in the Balkan Bermuda Triangle: Political Conflicts over History between Sofia, Skopje and Athens before and after 1989 Stefan Troebst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
Israeli-Polish Political Dispute over the Amendment of the Act of the Institute of National Remembrance Przemysław Furgacz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
Historical Commissions: A Mean to Overcome Traumatic Historical Experiences? Emmanuelle Hébert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
Possibilities of Building a Memory Dialogue between Russia and Poland Concerning Soviet Repression Maria Kostromitskaya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301

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eBook published on:

September 20, 2022

eBook ISBN:

9783110769791

Hardcover published on:

September 20, 2022

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110769784

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Front matter:

7

Main content:

306

Coloured Illustrations:

6

Tables:

4

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110769791

eBook ISBN: 9783110769791

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110769784

Keywords for this book

politics of memory; instrumentalisation of history; memory wars; inter-state disputes and conflicts over history

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political scientists and historians, scholars in the field of the politics of history and the politics of remembrance

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