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Book SynopsisFar-right movements, parties, and governments are changing the language and logic of international order. Zero-sum geopolitics - from Donald Trump to Brexit - and the rhetoric of putting the national interest first are back, and along with them come a deep fascination with the values of patriarchy, masculinity, and strength. Putting these dramatic shifts in contemporary American and European foreign policy into wider historical and intellectual context, Geopolitical Amnesia explores the liberal crisis beneath the resurgence of far-right ideas. Drawing on memory studies, it addresses the ways in which the new geopolitics intersects and interplays with an exhausted and amnesiatic liberalism. Scholars with expertise on national and regional ideological traditions look at contemporary memory wars - competing revisionist histories - from Washington to Warsaw, and from the Anglosphere to Southern, Western, and Eastern Europe. They address the changing conditions of memory and nostalgia and d
Trade Review"Geopolitical Amnesia is an engaging and original volume. The authors develops a novel theoretical framework and apply it to a range of cases in an illuminating manner. It is a notable contribution to scholarship." Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge
"This is a brilliant collection. It is clear that Vibeke Schou Tjalve has worked very effectively, outlining the intellectual challenge and then following through to ensure coherence between the contributions. Geopolitical Amnesia is deeply rooted in current realities, and all the chapters are written in an accessible style. It was a pleasure to read." Richard Sakwa, University of Kent
