This is the second of two CEELBAS-funded workshops on the theme of international elites and identity formation in the post-Soviet space. It follows on from the successful workshop held at Cambridge University on 27th November 2009 addressing the ways in which internationalization of economics and politics interact with domestic interests to shape national identity (further details here).

Papers at the second workshop will address the ways in which domestic and international or exogenous elites influence the formation of identity (national, international, regional, religious, class and individual) in the countries of post-Soviet space, and will consider both internal and external influences on personal and state (as well as regional) identity.

Participation from scholars working in this area is invited. No charge is made, but space is limited and participants must register. We have no funds to support travel or other expenses. Please confirm your participation by email to Irina Ginns -

Email: slavon@hermes.cam.ac.uk

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DETAILS OF THE WORKSHOP:

Please click on the links for papers and abstracts.

Friday 11 June

10.30 Coffee and registration

10.45. Introduction: David Lane

PART I: Elites and Identity

11.00 – 1.00

Andrew Cook (Lancaster), Corporate Elites and the Construction of Neo-Liberalism in Eastern Central Europe 1989-2009

Rick Fawn (St Andrews), Common Leadership Identities and Divergent Interests in Regional Cooperation in the Former Soviet Union

Ovsey Shkaratan (Moscow), The Russian ‘Pseudo-Elite’ and its Identity in World and National Contexts

1.00 – 1.45 Lunch break.

PART II: Economic Elites and their Impact

1.45 – 3.30 Chairman: Stephen White (Glasgow)

Gyorgy Lengyel, (Budapest), Supranational Attachment of Elites and Masses. A Comparative Analysis of Six Post-Socialist Countries

Katharina Bluhm, Bernd Martens and Vera Trappmann, (Jena), Economic Elites and the role of companies: Poland, Hungary and Germany

PART III: States and Identities

3.30 – 5.30 Chairman: John Barber (Cambridge)

Inna Melnykovska & Rainer Schweickert & Tetiana Kostiuchenko (Bremen), EU Neighbourhood Europeanization and European Identities of Elites in Ukraine

John Russell (Bradford), Chechen Elites: Control, Cooption or Substitution?

Timor Sharan (Exeter), The Dynamics of Elite Formation and Identity Politics in Post-Taliban Afghanistan

5.30 – 6.30 Reception

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Workshop supported by Cambridge University and The Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS), BASEES and EACES