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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822176403321

Autore

Guillaume Xavier

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-92596-1

1-282-91297-6

9786612912979

0-203-84526-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

The new international relations

Disciplina

306.2

Soggetti

Ethnicity - Japan

Group identity - Political aspects

International relations

Multiculturalism - Japan

Political culture - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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