CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Ghincea, Georgian-Marius |
|---|---|
| Title | Narratives of Alterity in International Politics: Continuity and Change in the Representation of the Other |
| Summary | This thesis examines changes in the identity representations of the Other in international politics and how these take place. Firstly, the constructivist scholarship on identity formation and on the images of the Other has been divided into two strands with different meta-theoretical commitments and which consequently see different sources for changes in the representation of the Other in state identity. This thesis suggests a way to reconcile the two strands by providing a via media of constructivism, which includes both exogenous and endogenous sources of change as complementary sources. This middle ground uses the complementarity of the two approaches to provide a better understanding of how identity representations of the Other change. Secondly, it proposes four different representational typologies of the Other which provide a better and clearer understanding of how international actors are and can be imagined in a layered identity. |
| Supervisor | Roe, Paul |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/ghincea_georgian.pdf |
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