Personal identity, national identity, and international relations
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Personal identity, national identity, and international relations
（Cambridge studies in international relations, 9）
Cambridge University Press, 1990
Available at 42 libraries
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Bibliography: p. 164-187
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Personal Identity, National Identity and International Relations is the first psychological study of nation-building, nationalism, mass mobilisation and foreign policy processes. In a bold exposition of identification theory, William Bloom relates mass psychological processes to international relations. He draws on Freud, Mead, Erikson, Parsons and Habermas to provide a rigorously argued answer to the longstanding theoretical problem of how to aggregate from individual attitudes to mass behaviour. With a detailed analysis of the nation-building experience of preindustrial France and England, William Bloom applies the theory to international relations.
Table of Contents
- 1. The problem stated and a review of politically applied psychological theory
- 2. Identification theory - its structure, dynamics and application
- 3. Nation-building
- 4. The national identity dynamic and foreign policy
- 5. Identification and international relations theory
- 6. Conclusion - appraisal, prescriptions, paradoxes.
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