The Politics of Becoming European av Maria Malksoo

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<P>This book weaves together perspectives drawn from critical international relations, anthropology and social theory in order to understand the Polish and Baltic post-Cold War politics of becoming European.</P><P></P><P>Approaching the study of Europe¿s eastern enlargement through a post-colonial critique, author Maria M¿soo makes a convincing case for a rethinking of European identity. Drawing on the theorist Edward Said, she contends that studies of the European Union are marked by a prevailing Orientalism, rarely asking who has traditionally been able to define European identity, and whether this identity should be presented as an historical process rather than a static category. The central argument of this book is that the historical experience of being framed as simultaneously in Europe - and yet not quite in Europe ¿ informs the current self-understandings and security imaginaries of Poland and the Baltic States. Exploring this existential condition of ¿liminal Europeaness¿ amo