Dr. Richard C. M. Mole is Lecturer in the Politics of Central Europe at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK. Prior to taking up this lectureship, he was a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at UCL. He is author of the forthcoming monograph for Routledge CurzonThe Baltic States. From the Soviet Union to the European Union.

His research focuses on the relationship between identity and power, with particular reference to legitimacy, foreign policy and security.He is also interested in discourse, gender and sexuality, social psychology, migration, ethnic conflict and the history and politics of the Baltic States.

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Selected Publications:

Books

• (ed.) Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. 2007.
• 2008. The Baltic States from the Soviet Union to the European Union London: Routledge Curzon (forthcoming)

Papers and presentations

• 2007. ‘The Impact of Political Discourse on Group Beliefs and Outgroup Antipathy among Latvian Youth’, Journal of Baltic Studies, vol. 38, no. 3
• 2007. ‘Spring in Prague, Winter in Tallinn’, afterward to Luik, V. The Beauty of History. Norwich: Norvik Press
• 2007. ‘Discursive Identities/Identity Discourses and Political Power’ in Mole, R.C.M. (ed.) Discursive Construction of Identity in European Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
• 2007. ‘Talking Security? The Discourse of European Identity in the Baltic States’ in Mole, R.C.M. (ed.) Discursive Construction of Identity in European Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
• 2007. (with Ciuta, F.) ‘Conclusion: Revisiting Discourse, Identity and ‘Europe’’, in Mole, R.C.M. (ed.) Discursive Construction of Identity in European Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
• 2007. (with Penrose, J.) ‘Nation-States and National Identity’ in Cox, K. et al (eds) Handbook of Political Geography. London: Sage (forthcoming)
• 'Talking Security? The Discourse of European Identity in the Baltic States', Nation, Identity and Conflict, Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 2004
• 'Sexuality, Ideology and Politics in Russia: Between the National Self and the Western Other', Representations of Gender in a Cross-Cultural Context, SOAS/UCL, February 2004'
• 'Security/Insecurity as Self/Other: the Case of the Baltic States', The Baltic States: New Europe or Old?, University of Glasgow, January 2004
• Language, Identity and Citizenship in Estonia and Latvia', Roundtable on Language and Citizenship, London School of Economics, October 2001
• 'National Identity and Foreign Policy', Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 2000
• 'Perceptions of Self and Other in Lithuanian-Polish Relations, 1991-1994', British International Studies Association Research Group on Identity, University of Oxford, December 1999

Publications and working papers

• 'National States and National Identity' (with J. Penrose) in Cox, K., Low, M. and Robinson, J. (eds), Handbook of Political Geography, Sage, London, (forthcoming 2005)
• 'Latvia's Transition to the EU', in Craveri, P., Morelli U., and Quagliariello, G. (eds), Dizionario dell'Integrazione Europea, Rubettino, Soveria Mannelli, Rome (forthcoming 2005)
• 'National Identity and Foreign Policy in Post-Soviet Lithuania' (in process)
• 'Statehood, Ethnic Relations and Citizenship' (with G. Smith and A. Aasland). in Smith, G. E. (ed.), The Baltic States. National Self-Determination in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Macmillan, London, 1994
• Nationality and Citizenship in the Baltic States (with G. Smith and A. Aasland), Report to the Institute of Peace Studies, Washington D.C., and the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, 1994
• 'Lithuania's Transition to Independence: Ethno-Political Perspectives', Working Paper no. 5, 1993, Institute of Peace Studies, Washington D.C., and the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge (with G. Smith)
• 'The Citizenship Debates in the Baltic States'(with G. Smith), Working Paper no. 6, 1993, Institute of Peace Studies, Washington D.C., and the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
• 'The Russian Minorities in the Baltic States: Results of a Survey of Ethnic Attitudes in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania' (with G. Smith and A. Aasland),Working Paper no. 7, 1993, Institute of Peace Studies, Washington D.C., and the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge