Abstract
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.
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Identity (music)NationalismNational identityExposition (narrative)Erikson's stages of psychosocial developmentIdentity formationSociologyInternational relationsInternational relations theoryPersonal identityIdentification (biology)EpistemologyGender studiesSocial sciencePolitical sciencePsychoanalysisLawPsychologySelf-conceptAestheticsPhilosophyPoliticsLiterature
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William Bloom
(1990).
Personal Identity, National Identity and International Relations.
Cambridge University Press eBooks
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https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511558955
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