Marco Siddi
Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs focusing on EU-Russia relations. Ph.D. in Politics at the universities of Edinburgh and Cologne (2014), M.A. with Honours in International Studies at Vienna University/Vienna School of International Studies (2010), B.A. in Modern History and German at Oxford University (2008, First Class). International Baccalaureate at the United World College of the Adriatic (2004, 45/45).
Research stays at the Institut für Europäische Politik (Berlin), the Institute of World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Science (Budapest) and the Trans European Policy Studies Association (Brussels).
Guest student at the Diplomatic Academy of Moscow, the universities of Trier and Bremen.
Intern at the Action against Terrorism Unit of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (2010) and at the Vienna-based public affairs consultancy Human Dynamics (2010).
Research stays at the Institut für Europäische Politik (Berlin), the Institute of World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Science (Budapest) and the Trans European Policy Studies Association (Brussels).
Guest student at the Diplomatic Academy of Moscow, the universities of Trier and Bremen.
Intern at the Action against Terrorism Unit of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (2010) and at the Vienna-based public affairs consultancy Human Dynamics (2010).
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The chapters explore a variety of theoretical concepts that shed light on how memory and foreign policy are linked in a complex and reciprocal way. The following mechanisms are discussed: the application of historical analogies; the construction of historical narratives; the creation of memory sites; the marginalisation and forgetting of the past; and the securitisation of historical memory. Through the use of a number of methodological approaches (such as discourse analysis, narrative analysis and content analysis of securitising moves) and a broad range of qualitative and quantitative data (newspaper articles, policy documents, commemorative speeches, interviews with policymakers and the observation of memory sites), the contributions highlight the interdependence of the international, national, regional and local dimensions of memory practices and history writing. Although they mostly focus on national case studies of foreign policy-making, they also reveal how representations of historical events evolve through interaction between political actors at the international level of analysis.
most urgent security challenge for the EU and its member states.
Between 2015 and 2017, however, the international scenario became even more complex, with significant repercussions for Europe-Russia relations. The refugee crisis, escalating civil wars in Syria and Libya, terrorist attacks, Brexit and the weakening of the transatlantic alliance following Donald Trump’s election posed new formidable challenges
for the EU. Russia sought a role in many of these crises, for instance by proposing an anti-terrorism coalition with the West in the Middle East or by reportedly intervening in some Western election campaigns.
This report zooms in on the debates on Russia in several EU member states that play a key role in the Union’s relations with Moscow. It reveals how national perspectives evolved and sometimes diverged due to different assessments of the crises and of Russia’s role in them.