Making identity count : building a national identity database / edited by Theodore Hopf and Bentley Allan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hopf, Ted, 1959- editor.

Allan, Bentley, 1983- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics--Political aspects.

National characteristics.

National interest.

International relations--Philosophy.

International relations.

Constructivism (Philosophy).

World politics--21st century.

World politics.

Physical Description:

vii, 256 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Making Identity Count presents a new method for the recovery of national identity, applies the method in nine country cases, and draws conclusions from the empirical evidence for hegemonic transitions and a variety of quantitative theories of identity. Ted Hopf and Bentley B. Allan make the constructivist variable of national identity a valid measure that can be used by large-n international relations scholars in a variety of ways. They lay out what is wrong with how identity has been conceptualized, operationalized, and measured in quantitative IR and specify a methodological approach that allows scholars to recover the predominant national identities of states in a more valid and systematic fashion. The book includes "national identity reports" on China, the US, the UK, Germany France, Brazil, Japan, and India to both test the authors 'method and demonstrate the promise of the approach. Contributors use these data to test a constructivist hypothesis about the future of Western neoliberal democratic hegemony. Finally, the book concludes with an assessment of the method, including areas of possible improvement, as well as a description of what an inter subjective national identity data base of great powers from 1810-2010 could mean for IR scholarship. Book jacket.

Contents:

Making It Count : Constructivism, Identity, and IR Theory / Ted Hopf

Recovering Discourses of National Identity / Bentley Allan

'The Rascal's Paradise" : Brazilian National Identity in 2010 / Marina Duque

'Development' as a means to an unknown end : Chinese National Identity in 2010 / Liang Ce and Rachel Zeng Rui

Whither La France? : French National Identity in 2010 / Benjamin Chan Jian Ming and Rebecca Oh

The Politics of Responsibility : Germany National Identity in 2010 / Kai Lim Heng

Talented Democrats in a Modern State : Indian Identity 2010 (English) / Jarrod Hayes

India's Choice : Western or Asian Global Liberal Hegemony? : Indian Identity 2010 (Hindi) / Shivaji Kumar

Conflicted Identities : Japanese National Identity 2010 / Nanaho Hanada

'The Only Friend the US Has in the Western World' : UK National Identity in 2010 / Srdjan Vucetic

The Country upon a Hill? : American Identity in 2010 / Ki Hoon, Michael Hor

"Making Identity Count" : Looking Beyond IR / Srdjan Vucetic

What Have We Learned / Ted Hopf and Bentley Allan

Appendix: National Identity Report Code Book.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190255480

019025548X

9780190255473

0190255471

OCLC:

929862849