Revisiting State Personhood and World Politics

ISBN-13: 9781032105949 / Miękka / 2023 / 188 str.

South Africa) Naude Bianca (University of the Free State

Opis

Breathing fresh air into debates surrounding foreign policy and interstate relations, Bianca Naude presents a holistic theory of states as collectives of people that cannot be reduced to their individual constituents.

Recenzje

'For those who think that state personhood is not only useful but also a real social feature of global politics, Naude’s book is an achievement on a number of fronts.  It is a splendid blend of careful analysis combined with creativity and innovation, and thus worthy of scholarly attention now and in the years to come.’

Brent Steele, Perspectives on Politics

"This is a well-written and accessible book that makes a strong case for complicating our understanding of the link between identity and state behaviour.　 … [The] book will be valuable for scholars interested in foreign policy, as well as in states’ emotions and states’ psychological functioning more generally."

Nina C. Krickel-Choi, International Affairs

Spis treści

1. Revisiting state personhood and world politics  2. The ontological status of the state  3. Personality, identity and the IR subject  4. The story of a state person  5. Social expectations and personal limitations  6. State narcissism and the constraints of reality

O autorze

Bianca Naude is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing on her training in anthropology, sociology, political science and theory of literature. She has contributed scholarly articles and book chapters on ontological security theory as a novel approach to terrorism studies, foreign policy and regionalization as tools of resistance against Western hegemony, South Africa’s search for ontological security in its foreign relations, and the role of emotions in South African foreign policy.