“…Morgenthau, concerned with the impact rather than the origins of concepts, stated that identity found its expression in a national '''culture pattern'' Á that certain qualities of intellect and character occur more frequently and are more highly valued in one nation than in another' (Morgenthau, 1968, p. 122). Scholars since have not disputed this definition, although most have found reason to expand it by including the importance of a shared past to explaining national political differences (Jarausch, 1997;Cruz, 2000). Yet, at bottom lies an understanding of national identity as creating what Max Weber (as cited in Morgenthau, 1968, p. 8) called 'images of the world', which 'have very often served as switches determining the tracks on which the dynamism of interests keep moving'.…”