International Relations and Identity - 9781138811744

Name: International Relations and Identity - 9781138811744
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

International Relations and IdentityA Dialogical Approach\nAuthor(s): Xavier Guillaume\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138811744, 978-1138811744\nSynopsis\nInternational Relations and Identity examines the issue of collective political identity formation and expands the concept of the international beyond the notion of states. \n\nProviding a dialogical approach to questions of identity and alterity in International Relations, the author considers how identity is formed, maintained and transformed in continuous processes with alterity. This innovative book seeks to broaden understanding of identity and difference by developing a process-based perspective. It shifts the attention from a dichotomising view of the international to the multiple ways by which identity and difference are related. It challenges traditional conceptions of the international and argues that it is constituted by the processes in which sta.