Overview
- Provides Polish foreign policy analysis from an expert in the area
- Rich in fascinating empirical material
- Speaks to critical theory, using the concepts of strategic culture and ontological security
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations (PSIR)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Politics of Stigmatization
- the international system
- Foreign policy
- belonging in International Relations
- Central and Eastern European countries
- CEECs
- Poland
- international relations theory
- former Soviet-bloc
- Western institutions
- Iraq War
- the Ukraine crisis
- the Russo-Georgian War
- foreign policy behavior
About this book
This book studies how the pursuit of becoming an established ‘insider’ in an international community shapes a state’s foreign policy. It looks at Poland’s response to three international crises that called for joint action of the EU and its members: the Iraq war of 2003, the Russo-Georgian war of 2008, and the Ukraine crisis beginning in 2013. The book develops the concept of strategic culture as a collection of historically informed narratives that guide a state’s pursuit of ontological security, a basic sense of certainty about the state’s role and place in the international environment. Building on this concept the author argues that Poland’s behavior reflects the awareness of its stigma as a ‘late arrival’ in the EU, and more generally in the‘West’ as an identity community. The study thus provides insight into how stigmatization and struggle for recognition shape international dynamics.
Reviews
---Maria Mälksoo, author of The Politics of Becoming European: A Study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War Security Imaginaries
Krasnodębska’s book offers a fresh critical perspective on the dominant approaches in IR literature on countries of Central and Eastern European. Using the case of Poland the book problematizes the usually taken-for-granted assumptions regarding the hierarchies of power and knowledge in the EU. To achieve her aim Krasnodębska develops an ambitious theoretical frame which she uses to challenge the socialization paradigm in the constructivist IR literature relying on the notions of stigmatization and ontological security.
---Tomasz Zarycki, Professor and Director of the Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies at the University of Warsaw
Molly Krasnodebska’s book offers fresh insights into the mechanisms underlying post-communist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe, challenging the established “imitative” paradigm that for years has been the norm in political science when describing Poland’s systemic transition from communism to democracy. In this important work Krasnodebska offers a new way to interpret Polish foreign and security policy choices in light of the country’s strategic culture and its quest for security, while addressing the broader historical context that has shaped the region. This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand post-communist transformation in the former Eastern Bloc.
---Professor Andrew A. Michta
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Maria “Molly” Krasnodębska is a Polish diplomat in Reykjavik, Iceland, and she holds a PhD from the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politics of Stigmatization
Book Subtitle: Poland as a ‘Latecomer’ in the European Union
Authors: Molly Krasnodębska
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51521-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51520-1Published: 28 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51523-2Published: 28 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51521-8Published: 27 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-2673
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 248
Topics: European Politics, European Union Politics, Foreign Policy, International Relations Theory