Collective Memory in International Relations

176 Pages·2021·2.394 MB·English

by  Kathrin Bachleitner

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Collective Memory in International Relations
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Collective Memory in
International Relations
KATHRIN BACHLEITNER
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Acknowledgements
This book has benefitted from the intellectual guidance of my teachers and
mentors at the University of Oxford and beyond: Alexander Betts, Derek
Penslar,PaulBetts,ToddH.Hall,andFrancisFukuyama.
I am indebted to Brent Steele for his insights, conceptual inspiration, and
truly generous review of the chapters. I equally want to thank those who
criticallyreadpartsorthewholeofthisbook:DavidBatho,forhisphilosophical
advice;CharlesLauderJr,forhisdevelopmentediting;andlastbutnotleast,my
mother,GudrunHeld,forreading(andreallydoing)everythingforme.
A big thank you also to my editor at OUP, Dominic Byatt, and the senior
assistant commissioning editor Olivia Wells for having supported me
throughout and for having made the text come together nicely into the final
form of a book. I would like to acknowledge the IKEA Foundation for their
generousfinancialsupportofmyresearchactivities;andmyfather,Reinhard
Bachleitner,forofferingoneofhispaintingsasthisbook’scover.
The end result of any monograph is different from what one sets out to
achieve.Thefinalversionnecessarilyreflectsameresnapshotofamuchlarger
universe of ideas that came to life during the long process of thinking and
writing. Equally, out of a multitude of historical documents collected, and
sourcesinvestigated,onlyatiny proportionmadeitintoprint. Still,Iremain
indebted to the Austrian State Archives and the Bruno Kreisky Archive in
Vienna for giving me access to their collections. Special thanks also to
Chancellor Franz Vranitzky for allowing me, in an interview, to look back at
his historical decision to admit co-responsibility on Austria’s part for the
tragediesoftheHolocaust.
Remembering—inthisbook—isviewedasapublicact,asapoliticalstrategy
that begins to form a country’s collective identity, state behaviour, and
national values. For me personally, remembering means a private space of
recall and reliving the happy times Ispent with my twinsister Juliauntil she
wastragicallykilledtenyearsago.Thisbookisdedicatedtohermemory.
Oxford,July2020
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Table of Contents
ListofTablesandFigures x
ListofAbbreviations xi
Introduction: Collective Memory in International Relations 1
1. Temporal Security in IR: Combining Ontological Security
with Collective Memory 12
2. Memory as Political Strategy 37
3. Memory as Public Identity 65
4. Memory as State Behaviour 87
5. Memory as National Values 120
Bibliography 149
Index 159