How do relations store histories

Understanding that our modern world is the product of historical processes that continue to this day ensures that not only do students gain a better comprehension of how the past has led to the present, but also provides them with the opportunity to consider the possible futures that they are moving towards based on the present.

It is impossible to fully comprehend how states interact with each other today without understanding the histories that have led these particular nation-states to the present. Even the most seemingly fundamental characteristics of states today, their political boundaries, are the products of historical developments that can reach back decades, centuries, or even longer.

What today we most often encounter as static and fixed lines on a map are actually only the current state of dynamic historical processes that have included war, peace, negotiation, colonialism, and exchange—all interactions that continue to this day.

Furthermore, these seemingly simple lines that mark the frontiers of nation-states today also offer information related to much more complex ideas such as national identity, about who in the past was deemed worthy of inclusion and those who were believed to only warrant exclusion. The confines of nation-states that we see on maps as definitive are actually dynamic and evolving historical entities which, in various moments in the past, were far from foregone conclusions.

Maps of political boundaries are often taken for granted as facts when, in reality, they are artifacts that are the result of historical processes. Article Google Scholar. International reconciliation on the Internet? Ontological security, attribution and the construction of war memory narratives in Wikipedia. International Relations. Halbwachs, M. On collective memory. Chicago: Chicago University Press. He, Y. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum website.

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