International relations and identity : a dialogical approach / Xavier Guillaume.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guillaume, Xavier.

Series:

New international relations.

The new international relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Japan.

Ethnicity.

Group identity--Political aspects--Case studies.

Group identity.

Group identity--Political aspects.

International relations.

Multiculturalism--Japan.

Multiculturalism.

Political culture--Japan.

Political culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

International Relations and Identity examines the issue of collective political identity formation and expands the concept of the international beyond the notion of states. Providing 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

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on transliteration and translation; Introduction; 1 Toward processual identity: Identity/alterity and IR theory; 2 A dialogical approach to the international; 3 From orthodoxy to normalcy: Narrative matrices in modern Japan; 4 Between homogeneity and heterogeneity: The question of multiculturalism in modern Japan; 5 Conclusion: Unveiling the international; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-168) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-92596-1

1-282-91297-6

9786612912979

0-203-84526-9

9780203845264

OCLC:

689996502