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Beware of organicism: the narrative self of the state

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2004

Iver B. Neumann
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Extract

Alexander Wendt holds that states are ‘purposive actors with a sense of Self’. He draws on hermeneutic scholarship from Paul Ricoeur (1991) to Erik Ringmar to argue that this self is a narrative structure.

Type
Research Article
Information
Review of International Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 259 - 267
Copyright
© 2004 British International Studies Association

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