Personal Identity, National Identity and International Relations (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)

By William Bloom

Book Overview

Personal 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521447844
• ISBN13: 9780521447843
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"