Abstract:As scholarly interest in the concept of identity continues to grow, social identities are proving to be crucially important for understanding contemporary life. Despite-or perhaps because of-the sprawl of different treatments of identity in the social sciences, the concept has remained too analytically loose to be as useful a tool as the literature's early promise had suggested. We propose to solve this longstanding problem by developing the analytical rigor and methodological imagination that will make identi… Show more
“…26 Thus, identity acts as a kind of mental framework for decision-makers, a filter which makes sense of systemic pressures and how an entity should appropriately respond. 27 Consequently, identity plays a constricting role in foreign policy formation as it narrows the options available to decision-makers.…”
Section: A Neoclassical Realist Framework For Analysing the Eu's Forementioning
This article breaks from the dominant liberal-idealist literature and examines the European Union's (EU) foreign policy decisions from a realist perspective. Through employing a novel, EU-focussed neoclassical realist framework, the EU's offer of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) to Ukraine is argued as being a result of the mediating influence of its normative power role identity, the (mis)perceptions held by its foreign policy decisionmakers and the institutional constraints inherent to its foreign policy decision-making process, which filtered systemic pressures (emanating from the European geopolitical setting) into the final foreign policy decision. Thereafter, this article assesses the EU's responses to the Ukraine crisis, offering policy reflections and recommendations.
“…26 Thus, identity acts as a kind of mental framework for decision-makers, a filter which makes sense of systemic pressures and how an entity should appropriately respond. 27 Consequently, identity plays a constricting role in foreign policy formation as it narrows the options available to decision-makers.…”
Section: A Neoclassical Realist Framework For Analysing the Eu's Forementioning
This article breaks from the dominant liberal-idealist literature and examines the European Union's (EU) foreign policy decisions from a realist perspective. Through employing a novel, EU-focussed neoclassical realist framework, the EU's offer of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) to Ukraine is argued as being a result of the mediating influence of its normative power role identity, the (mis)perceptions held by its foreign policy decisionmakers and the institutional constraints inherent to its foreign policy decision-making process, which filtered systemic pressures (emanating from the European geopolitical setting) into the final foreign policy decision. Thereafter, this article assesses the EU's responses to the Ukraine crisis, offering policy reflections and recommendations.
“…This is complicated by the difficulties associated with understanding and analyzing the macro-micro reality and intersubjectivity of social phenomena such as race or ethnicity (see Gillespie & Cornish, 2010;Jaspal & Cinnirella, 2012;Morçöl, 2012;Sawyer, 2005;Törrönen, 2014). Even newer research techniques, such as agent-based modeling, are insufficient for gaining a complete understanding of complex racial dynamics because of innumerous perceptions and countless interactions among personal characteristics and the environment (Abdelal, Herrera, Johnston, & McDermott, 2006;Bednar & Page, 2007;Harrell, 2000;Smaldino, Pickett, Sherman, & Schank, 2012;Spencer et al, 1997). These difficulties and limitations collectively lend credence to Tyson's (2017) aphorism in the second epigraph.…”
Concepts, theories, and findings of race and racial identity development were reviewed and conceptualized into a single model based on principles of complexity and chaos. This article proposes race can be understood as a complex adaptive system and conceptualized as an attractor landscape. In this model, trajectories represent racial identity development or progression through an attractor landscape comprised of racial categories. Although this works well as a conceptual model, the modeling of racial identity development within an attractor landscape is affected by practical constraints related to data collection and many of the same limitations of existing racial identity development theories. The proposed model also creates additional challenges because of its interdisciplinary nature.
“…Based on a constructivist framework, it is considered that the conduct of external relations is a practice through which a State materialises its identity. Identities are not given a priori, but socially conferred and legitimated through a practical and ideational process of elaboration, enactment and feedback (Wendt 1992;Barnett 1999;Marcussen et al 1999;Guillaume 2002;Abdelal et al 2006). While the practical part is carried out mainly by States in the course of their continued interactions, non-state actors can play an important role in the legitimation of ideas and interpretations.…”
This study analyses whether Brazilian foreign policy under Lula successfully legitimised the country's international identity as a rising power in the eyes of the domestic and international media. Based on a constructivist framework, we have applied French Discourse Analysis to a corpus of 36 official addresses by the President of the Republic and the Minister of Foreign Relations and 137 news articles from four news outlets, two Brazilian and two international, concerning two diplomatic episodes deemed representative of Brazil's quest for greater pre-eminence: the leadership of MINUSTAH (2004) and the Nuclear Deal signed with Iran and Turkey (2010). Results show that official discourse characterises Brazil's identity as a rising power chiefly by South-South diplomacy, while media discourse was more heterogeneous, being the discursive formation of each news outlet determinant in explaining their interpretation of Brazil's international identity.
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