Table of Contents:
  • 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.