International Politics of Recognition

by Thomas Lindemann and Erik Ringmar

The origins of international conflict are often explained by security dilemmas, power-rivalries or profits for political or economic elites. Common to these approaches is the idea that human behaviour is mostly governed by material interests which principally involve the quest for power or wealth. The authors question this truncated image of human rationality. Borrowing the concept of recognition from models developed in philosophy and sociology,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594518092
• ISBN13: 9781594518096
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"