Historicity of European Union foreign policy: historical and cultural conditions over national subjectivity

Abstract

Importance. Unlike national subjectivity, European foreign policy is quite historical, that is, it is not mythologized and has a chronologically distinct beginning. How then is the continuity inherent in subjectivity achieved if supranational foreign policy can be represented as a series of discrete solutions? Based on the fact that any foreign policy is a locus of cultural relations, the historical and cultural conditions of European subjectivity were examined on the example of European cinema. Materials and methods. A cultural method of historical research was formulated; materials were selected that seamlessly relate to the European tradition of cinema. Results and Discussion. Some conditions of supranational subjectivity were highlighted – first of all, it is a transformative experience associated with war. Conclusion. Cinema shows what European foreign policy is made of in addition to discrete solutions – ideas and traditions cannot show this, whereas modern cultural forms allow it to reveal the location of supranational subjectivity in the historical and cultural dynamics of the 20th century.