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Postmodern Geopolitics? The European Union Eyes Russia

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The discourse on EU–Russia relations amongst practitioners, think-tank experts, journalists and academics has congealed around a postmodern–modern binary. It is frequently argued that whereas Russia is caught up in a ‘modern’ framework of fixed territory, national identity and traditional geopolitics, the European Union is driven by a ‘postmodern’ spatial mindset that transcends these ‘backward’ values. This article argues that the EU's supposed postmodern geopolitics remains enmeshed in a very modern temporality—a consciousness of time that valorises the present over the past. It also detects a problematic disillusion with the postmodern and questions its implicit normativity.

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  • Ian Klinke, 2012. "Postmodern Geopolitics? The European Union Eyes Russia," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 64(5), pages 929-947.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:64:y:2012:i:5:p:929-947
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2012.676237
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    1. Ueli Staeger, 2016. "Africa–EU Relations and Normative Power Europe: A Decolonial Pan‐African Critique," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 54(4), pages 981-998, July.

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