| ID | 180350 |
| Title Proper | Militant memocracy in International Relations |
| Other Title Information | Mnemonical status anxiety and memory laws in Eastern Europe |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Mälksoo, Maria |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article theorises the nexus between mnemonical status anxiety and militant memory laws. Extending the understanding of status-seeking in international relations to the realm of historical memory, I argue that the quest for mnemonical recognition is a status struggle in an international social hierarchy of remembering constitutive events of the past. A typology of mnemopolitical status-seeking is presented on the example of Russia (mnemonical positionalism), Poland (mnemonical revisionism), and Ukraine (mnemonical self-emancipation). Memory laws provide a common instance of securing and/or improving a state's mnemonical standing in the relevant memory order. Drawing on the conceptual analogy of militant democracy, the article develops the notion militant memocracy, or the governance of historical memory through a dense network of prescribing and proscribing memory laws and policies. Similar to its militant democracy counterpart, militant memocracy is in danger of self-inflicted harm to the object of defence in the very effort to defend it: its precautionary and punitive measures resound rather than fix the state's mnemonical anxiety problem. |
| `In' analytical Note | Review of International Studies Vol. 47, No.4; Oct 2021: p.489 - 507 |
| Journal Source | Review of International Studies Vol: 47 No 4 |
| Key Words | Poland ; Russia ; Ukraine ; Mnemonical Status Anxiety ; Memory Laws ; Militant Memocracy |