Brent J Steele

Ontological Security in International Relations

Self-Identity and the IR State

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume demonstrates that ontological security is a major motivating rationale for state action and inaction, challenging and complementing realist, liberal and constructivist accounts to international politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780415772761
• ISBN-10: 0415772761
• Artikelnr.: 45332736

Autorenporträt

Brent J. Steele is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Identity, Morality, and Social Action 3. The
Possibilities of a Self 4. The Power of Self-Identity: British Neutrality
and the American Civil War 5. 'Death Before Dishonor': Belgian
Self-Identity, Honor, and World War I 6. Haunted by the Past: Shame and
NATO's Kosovo Operation 7. The Future of Ontological Security in
International Relations