Misremembrance of Things Past: Cooperation between Russia and the US Despite Conflicting Narratives

Conflict between states or actors belonging to different identity groups is often accompanied by sharply divergent historical narratives about responsibility for past wrongs. In this paper, we present a model for how cooperation can occur, even when states disagree about the past. We consider this model of cooperation with a case study of the current context of U.S.-Russian relations since the Crimea crisis.

Yoshiko M. Herrera is Professor of Political Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work focuses on politics in Russia; social identities and norms; nationalism, xenophobia, and ethnic politics; and constructivist political economy.

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