National Collective Identity: Social Constructs and International Systems.(Review) (book review)

National Collective Identity: Social Constructs and International Systems. By Rodney Bruce Hall. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 392p. $50.00 cloth, $20.50 paper.

International relations scholars with a social constructivist orientation have recently begun to produce empirical work substantiating more abstract formulations of the idea that, in the words of Alexander Wendt, "anarchy is what states make of it." Whereas initial empirical forays focused on relatively narrow cases, books offering more sweeping historical interpretations are now emerging; National ...

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