Second Natures
Is the State Identical with Itself
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6060908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jens Bartelson (0000-0002-8633-9798, Stockholm University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 295-326 |
| Publication date | 1998-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of International Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-0661 • E-ISSN: 1460-3713 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1354066198004003002 |
| OpenAlex | W2060094683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 53 |
This article analyses existing assumptions about state identity within contemporary International Relations theory, arguing that the quest for the identity of the state leads to either circularity or regress. Departing from commonsensical criteria of self-identity such as indivisibility, distinctness and spatiotemporal continuity, this article examines how these criteria are interpreted and applied within essentialist, institutionalist, historicist and poststructuralist theories of International Relations, depending on their different background understandings of the relationship between problems of being and problems of knowing. The article ends by suggesting a reconceptualization of the state in terms of proper identity
Economics · Epistemology · Essentialism · Historicism · Identity (music) · International relations · International relations theory · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance
Women and States
The Critique of the State
Realist Constructivism
Husserl on the state
Identity as a Variable
States and ontological security
Nordisk IR
Generic universalism in world politics
What's it like to be a state? An argument for state consciousness
Three concepts of recognition
The recognitive practices of declaring and constituting statehood
One state-one nation
Rumo à teorização além do estado
As Transformações das Regras Internacionais sobre Violência na Ordem Mundial Contemporânea
Ubiquitous identities and elusive subjects
The national identity of post-communist small states in the process of accession to the European Union
Playing the game of sovereign states
Cultural intimacy in International Relations
Neither real nor fictitious but 'as if real'? A political ontology of the state
Three Concepts of Globalization
Alternative Analytical Axes of Brazilian Foreign Policy
The International System
The decaying pillars of the Westphalian temple
Pluralism and the Personality of the State
A Genealogy of Sovereignty
The construction of social reality
Essence of Decision
Peace and War
Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1992
Neorealism and neoliberalism
Política entre las naciones
The Category of the person
Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice
Identity and Essence
Governance without Government
On the Construction of a Social Reality
The Social Construction of Reality
Man, the State, and War
Social Forces, States and World Orders
Security, Sovereignty, and the Challenge of World Politics
When will the State Wither Away
The Geopolitics of Geopolitical Space
The assumption of anarchy in international relations theory
The narrow gate
Explaining and understanding international relations
Turbulence in world politics
Neorealism and its critics
The International System. Theoretical Essays
Feudal Europe, 800–1300
Origins of the Modern World System
State Sovereignty in International Relations
Conclusion
Quasi-states, dual regimes, and neoclassical theory
What's at stake in the agent-structure debate
From international system to international society
Territoriality and beyond
Anarchy is what states make of it
The second image reversed
The agent-structure problem in international relations theory
Anarchy and identity
The state and the nation
Sovereignty
On the Ontological Status of the State
Beyond the State
Continuity and Transformation in the World Polity
Of Systems, Boundaries, and Territoriality
States, War and Capitalism
Collective Identity Formation and the International State
The State in Transition
The Nation-State and Violence
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,81 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2023 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |