Militant memocracy in International Relations: Mnemonical status anxiety and memory laws in Eastern Europe
Journal: Review of International Studies
Year: 2021

Abstract 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 re