National Collective Identity: Social Constructs and International Systems

Abstract

Preface and AcknowledgmentsPart I. Collective Identity and International Relations Theory 1. International Relations Without Nations?2. Social Identities and Social System3. Identities and Social Orders: International Systems in Modern HistoryPart II. Territorial-Sovereign Identity 4. Raison d'Etat and Territorial Sovereignty: Mercantilist Absolutism and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism5. Territorial-Sovereign Identity and the Seven Years' WarPart III. National-Sovereign Identity 6. The Emergence of National-Sovereign Identity: Revolutionary Nationalism and Reaction7. Use and Misuse of the Principle of Nationality: The Demise of the Second Empire and the Birth of the Second Reich8. National Sovereignty and the New Imperialism: The Global Transmission of Bourgeois-National Identity and Culture9. Over-the-Top and Over There: Status Contests Among National-SovereignsPart IV. Conclusions and Implications 10. The Helpless Colossus: The Politics of Identity and Hopeful Nondeterminism