Contested Identities of Ukraine and Belarus
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Since 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine and Belarus have devised and carried out a series of policies intended to build national identity for a new era. Ukraine and Belarus have shown clear differences in the way they strived to achieve such goal. There is a stark contrast between the two states in who are playing a leading role in reshaping national identity, what they demand, how the government is dealing with the issue and how the people are responding to it. This paper intends to find out the characteristics of national identity that is taking shape in Ukraine and Belarus and to identify challenges facing them. Belarus and Ukraine have not yet fully established their national identity and there is no complete consensus on the concept or sense of national identity that the majority of their people can share. In this modern society where postmodernism is widely accepted and diverse cultural interactions occur due to globalization, neither of the two countries is effectively coping with plurality as far as identity concerned. In this light, heteronationalism, that seeks to integrate ethno-national identity politics within a euronationalist understanding of political community, is probably the best viable option for these two states to deal with challenges of national identity.
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Since 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine and Belarus have devised and carried out a series of policies intended to build national identity for a new era. Ukraine and Belarus have shown clear differences in the way they strived to achieve such goal. There is a stark contrast between the two states in who are playing a leading role in reshaping national identity, what they demand, how the government is dealing with the issue and how the people are responding to it. This paper intends to find out the characteristics of national identity that is taking shape in Ukraine and Belarus and to identify challenges facing them. Belarus and Ukraine have not yet fully established their national identity and there is no complete consensus on the concept or sense of national identity that the majority of their people can share. In this modern society where postmodernism is widely accepted and diverse cultural interactions occur due to globalization, neither of the two countries is effectively coping with plurality as far as identity concerned. In this light, heteronationalism, that seeks to integrate ethno-national identity politics within a euronationalist understanding of political community, is probably the best viable option for these two states to deal with challenges of national identity.
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