Personal Identity, National Identity and International RelationsPersonal 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. |
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Contents
The problem stated and a review of politically applied psychological theory | 1 |
Identification theory its structure dynamics and application | 25 |
Nationbuilding | 54 |
The national identity dynamic and foreign policy | 76 |
Identification and international relations theory | 105 |
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Personal Identity, National Identity, and International Relations William Bloom No preview available - 1990 |
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| Title | Personal Identity, National Identity and International Relations Issue 9 of Cambridge Studies in International Relations |
| Author | William Bloom |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0521447844, 9780521447843 |
| Length | 194 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / International Relations / General Social Science / Sociology / General |
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