International Relations and Identity: A Dialogical Approach

ISBN-13: 9780415564069 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 190 str.

Xavier Guillaume

Opis

This highly innovative book examines the issue of collective political identity formation and expands the concept of international relations beyond the notion of states.

Generating a more sociological vision of identity by analysing how identity is formed, performed and transformed, the author seeks to broaden IR’s understanding of identity and difference by developing a process-based perspective that focuses on actions. It challenges the conception of the international and argues that it is constituted by the processes in which states participate and is more than a spatial dimension constituted by states.

The author develops a dialogical theory of international relations and illustrates this complex theory with a detailed case study of how Japanese political community has formed, performed and transformed through time from the 17^th Century to modernity, in light of the question of multiculturalism.

It will be of interest to students and scholars of international politics, international relations theory and Japanese studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Toward Process IR: Identity/Alterity and IR Theory  3. A Dialogical Approach to the International  4. From Orthodoxy to Normalcy: Narrative Matrices in Modern Japan  5. Between Homogeneity and Heterogeneity: Politics of Alterity in Modern Japan  6. Conclusion: Unveiling the International

O autorze

Xavier Guillaume is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His research interests include the political and social theory of international relations, the question of alterity and identity, critical security studies and citizenship.