
National Collective Identity
Social Constructs and International Systems
Rodney Bruce Hall(Author)
Columbia University Press
Published on 10. February 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-0-231-11151-5 (ISBN)
Description
With the dissolution of Cold War tensions, as new states take shape around the world and as nationalist and ethnic conflicts come to characterize the international order, questions of national identity have become pivotal for peacekeepers, policymakers, and scholars. In National Collective Identity, Rodney Hall illustrates how centuries-old dynastic traditions have been replaced in the modern era by nationalist and ethnic identity movements.This book delineates three epochal changes in the international system: from the medieval, feudal-theocratic order to the dynastic-sovereign system in the sixteenth century, the territorial sovereign system in the seventeenth century, and finally, after the American and French Revolutions, the national sovereign system. In rich historical detail, this book reexamines a broad spectrum of international conflicts--including the Seven Years War, the Napoleonic wars, the Franco-Prussian War, the First World War, and the Cold War and its aftermath--in terms of the shifting sands of state identities through time.Arguing for the need to make a clear distinction between nation and state--one that has largely been overlooked in recent international relations studies on nationalism--Hall shows how an understanding of this dichotomy can help forecast the development of new states over time.
National Collective Identity ascribes transformative power to social actors rather than viewing them as merely conditioned by the self-perpetuating logic of the state. In so doing, Hall presents a new theoretical model that accounts for human agency as an integral component of national systems.
National Collective Identity ascribes transformative power to social actors rather than viewing them as merely conditioned by the self-perpetuating logic of the state. In so doing, Hall presents a new theoretical model that accounts for human agency as an integral component of national systems.
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Hall's work provides an important link between international-relations theory and nationalism scholarship. Nationalism and Ethnic PoliticsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-11151-5 (9780231111515)
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Person
Rodney Bruce Hall is a postdoctoral research fellow in international relations theory at the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies and visiting assistant professor of international relations at Brown University.
Content
Preface and Acknowledgments Part I. Collective Identity and International Relations Theory 1. International Relations Without Nations? 2. Social Identities and Social System 3. Identities and Social Orders: International Systems in Modern History Part II. Territorial-Sovereign Identity 4. Raison d'Etat and Territorial Sovereignty: Mercantilist Absolutism and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism 5. Territorial-Sovereign Identity and the Seven Years' War Part III. National-Sovereign Identity 6. The Emergence of National-Sovereign Identity: Revolutionary Nationalism and Reaction 7. Use and Misuse of the Principle of Nationality: The Demise of the Second Empire and the Birth of the Second Reich 8. National Sovereignty and the New Imperialism: The Global Transmission of Bourgeois-National Identity and Culture 9. "Over-the-Top" and "Over There": Status Contests Among National-Sovereigns Part IV. Conclusions and Implications 10. The Helpless Colossus: The Politics of Identity and Hopeful Nondeterminism