INTERNATIONAL ELITES AND THE FORMATION OF POLITICAL IDENTITY IN POST SOVIET SPACE

Under the auspices of the Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (Ceelbas) a workshop will be organised at Cambridge University on 11 June 2010.

Papers are solicited on the topic of Elites and the Formation of Identities in Post Soviet Space:  Global and Domestic Influences. Papers should 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.

The papers should address the ways in which internationalization of economics and politics interact with domestic interests to shape national and other forms of identity. Paper-givers are encouraged to consider both theoretical approaches and empirical data and to address the tension between domestic and exogenous influences on shaping state and other forms of identity.

The workshop will be held in Cambridge and will include papers on both internal and external influences on personal and state (as well as regional) identity. Here we take into account the role of global/international elites (articulating the interests of global and regional companies and political institutions, diasporas, and civil society associations (e.g. Churches)) in the formation of various types of national and cross-national identities.

Please send proposals as soon as possible and before 1 March 2010.

Proposals should include: a one page abstract, your present position (post-graduate, academic staff, research staff, etc), your mail address and email address to

David Lane DSL10@cam.ac.uk.