Historicity of European Union foreign policy: historical and cultural conditions over national subjectivity
https://doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2023-28-4-1010-1023
Abstract
Importance. Unlike national subjectivity, European foreign policy is quite historical, that is, it is not mythologized and has a chronologically distinct beginning. How then is the continuity inherent in subjectivity achieved if supranational foreign policy can be represented as a series of discrete solutions? Based on the fact that any foreign policy is a locus of cultural relations, the historical and cultural conditions of European subjectivity were examined on the example of European cinema.
Materials and methods. A cultural method of historical research was formulated; materials were selected that seamlessly relate to the European tradition of cinema.
Results and Discussion. Some conditions of supranational subjectivity were highlighted – first of all, it is a transformative experience associated with war.
Conclusion. Cinema shows what European foreign policy is made of in addition to discrete solutions – ideas and traditions cannot show this, whereas modern cultural forms allow it to reveal the location of supranational subjectivity in the historical and cultural dynamics of the 20th century.
About the Author
D. A. Kuznetsov-Brusnikin
Saint-Petersburg State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Daniil A. Kuznetsov-Brusnikin, Research Scholar of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
29 Universitetskaya Emb., St. Petersburg, 199034
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Kuznetsov-Brusnikin D.A. Historicity of European Union foreign policy: historical and cultural conditions over national subjectivity. Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities. 2023;28(4):1010-1023. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2023-28-4-1010-1023
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