TY - BOOK AU - Taras,Ray TI - Russia's identity in international relations: images, perceptions, misperceptions T2 - BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies SN - 9780415520584 (hardback) AV - DK510.764 .R883 2012 U1 - 327.47 23 KW - Identity politics KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Russians KW - Ethnic identity KW - Foreign relations KW - Foreign public opinion KW - Western countries N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The power of images and the images of power: past and present identity in Russia's international relations / Ray Taras -- Mirror, mirror...: myth-making, self-images and views of the US "Other" in contemporary Russia / Bo Petersson -- Russia in international society over the longue durée: lessons from early Rus' and early post-Soviet state formation / Iver B. Neumann -- The "Varangian problem": science in the grip of ideology and politics / Elena Melnikova -- Russian and European mutual perceptions: foreign policy stereotypes in historical perspective / Aleksander V. Golubev -- Russia and the West in the 2000s: redefining Russian identity in official political discourse / Olga Malinova -- Constructing Russophobia / Valentina Feklyunina -- Images, metaphors, and power: reinventing the grammar of Russian trans-border regionalism / Andrey S. Makarychev -- The embarrassing Russian connection: selective memory of the Russian heritage in contemporary Poland / Tomasz Zaryck ER -