The Political Psychology of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

Chafetz, Glenn

doi:10.2307/2960191

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“…Is NATO merely an alliance or a collective security system? There are good reasons for thinking the latter (Chafetz 1993), but data on collective identification would help us answer this question.…”

Section: Collective Identity and Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective Identity Formation and the International State

1994

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The neorealist-neoliberal debate about the possibilities for collective action in international relations has been based on a shared commitment to Mancur Olson's rationalist definition of the problem as one of getting exogenously given egoists to cooperate. Treating this assumption as a de facto hypothesis about world politics, I articulate the rival claim that interaction at the systemic level changes state identities and interests. The causes of state egoism do not justify always treating it as given. Insights from critical international relations and integration theories suggest how collective identity among states could emerge endogenously at the systemic level. Such a process would generate cooperation that neither neorealists nor neoliberals expect and help transform systemic anarchy into an “international state”—a transnational structure of political authority that might undermine territorial democracy. I show how broadening systemic theory beyond rationalist concerns can help it to explain structural change in world politics.

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Section: Collective Identity and Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collective Identity Formation and the International State

1994

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“…Moreover, because the West, and in particular the United States, identifies strongly with Israel, Israel pays no cost for defying the international community (Chafetz, 1995;Quester, 1991). This facet of the theory explains the one exception among the otherwise universally compliani democracies: Israel.…”

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confidence: 99%