Papers by Christopher Browning
Lietuvos metinė strateginė apžvalga, 2005
European Security, 2018
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Cooperation and Conflict, 2007
This article introduces the idea of brands to debates about Nordic models and identity. Understan... more This article introduces the idea of brands to debates about Nordic models and identity. Understanding brands to be more strategic and stable than identities, the article shows how a Nordic brand was marketed during the Cold War, but has since been challenged and undermined by a number of pressures. Central to the Nordic brand have been ideas of Nordic ‘exceptionalism’—of the Nordics as being different from or better than the norm—and of the Nordic experience, norms and values as a model to be copied by others. In the post-Cold War period, key aspects of the Nordic brand have been challenged. On the one hand, elements of the Nordic elite appear to have forsaken the brand. On the other, broader recognition of a distinct Nordic brand is being undermined with the melding of Nordic with European practices and processes. The article concludes by asking whether the decline of the Nordic brand matters and further explores the link between Nordicity as a brand and as an identity.
Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 2019
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Global Society, 2020
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Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review
With the dual enlargement of NATO and the EU to the Baltic States in 2004 the post-Cold War trans... more With the dual enlargement of NATO and the EU to the Baltic States in 2004 the post-Cold War transition process in the Baltic Sea Region has begun to draw to a close. The article argues that this is posing questions for, and is likely to change, the character of cooperation within the region. During the 1990s it is argued regional cooperation was driven primarily by motivations of idealism and security, with one of the central elements of regional cooperation being its conceptualisation as a project of identity and subjectivity creation. With the transition process completed the key motivations behind this political project are becoming less important, with the result being that this idealistic element to regional cooperation is being replaced by more pragmatic, functionalist and self-interested aspects. However, whilst internally idealism, solidarity and internationalism are on the wane, it is argued these elements have not disappeared altogether but are increasingly becoming an accepted part of the international profile and identity of the region.
The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy, Dec 6, 2017
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In 2010, the 'Brand Africa' initiative was launched with the mission to transform perceptions of ... more In 2010, the 'Brand Africa' initiative was launched with the mission to transform perceptions of Africa from a continent of calamities into one of promising economic prospects and entrepreneurial populations. This transformation, 'Brand Africa' claims, is one where Africans take their representation from the hands of foreigners and make, through a new image, their own (hi)story. In this respect Brand Africa can be interpreted as a form of subaltern geopolitics seeking to subvert dominant geopolitical knowledge and to fight established structures of domination. However, the article argues its subversive elements are limited, especially when compared to the historical discourses of decolonial pan-Africanism upon which it draws for legitimacy. Indeed, while appropriating this legacy Brand Africa offers up a very different geopolitical vision of possible/desirable African futures. It is argued that this may be accounted for by understanding the extent to which the Brand Africa initiative appears embedded within a South African national context and its own geopolitical ambitions evident within its own nation-branding project. What this highlights in turn is that the emancipatory potential and assumed synergies between national and supranational branding central to the Brand Africa initiative are not as unproblematic or uncontested as claimed.
Political Geography
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British Politics
hosted a lively conference on research 'impact', a key component of the Research Excellence Frame... more hosted a lively conference on research 'impact', a key component of the Research Excellence Framework (REF)-the periodic peer review in UK Higher Education to evaluate the quality of academic work, in turn determining how nearly £2 billion of annual research funding is allocated among competing institutions. In contrast to many other conferences and workshops about impact, a feature of REF that has generated much fevered commentary across the university sector about the public value of academic research, our event was tightly focused on impact as it relates to the discipline of Politics and International Studies. Featuring presentations from a range of academic and non-academic constituencies-including journalists, government officials, and representatives from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), 1 the creator and (at the time of writing) controller of the REF-conversation was particularly timely, owing to the publication, a few months earlier, of the eagerly awaited Stern Review on the future of university research assessment. This special issue contains selected papers from the conference, with the goal of shedding light on how the discipline as a whole, but also its varied composite parts, is responding to the impact agenda in the lead up to REF2021, now looming close on the horizon.
Geopolitics
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Political Psychology
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... S. Browning and Pertti Joenniemi, "The Identity of Kaliningrad: Russian European or a Th... more ... S. Browning and Pertti Joenniemi, "The Identity of Kaliningrad: Russian European or a Third Space?" Paper presented at the ASN Special Convention ... (3.) For such "neomedieval" descriptions of the EU, see James A. Caporaso, "The European Union and Forms of State ...
The Boundaries of EU Enlargement, 2008
The Geopolitics of Europe's Identity, 2008
His research interests are in critical approaches to security and the role of margins in internat... more His research interests are in critical approaches to security and the role of margins in international relations. His recent publications include Con
Probl Post Communism, 2008
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