Personal Identity, National Identity and International Relations (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 9) - Softcover

Bloom, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521447844 ISBN 13: 9780521447843

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Personal Identity, National Identity and International Relations is the first psychological study of nation-building, nationalism, mass mobilisation and foreign policy processes. In a bold exposition of identification theory, William Bloom relates mass psychological processes to international relations. He draws on Freud, Mead, Erikson, Parsons and Habermas to provide a rigorously argued answer to the longstanding theoretical problem of how to aggregate from individual attitudes to mass behaviour. With a detailed analysis of the nation-building experience of preindustrial France and England, William Bloom applies the theory to international relations.

About this title

Book Description:

Drawing on Freud, Mead, Erikson, Parsons and Habermas, this is the first study of nation-building, nationalism, mobilization and foreign policy processes to relate mass psychological processes to international relations in a new exposition of identification theory.

About the Author:

William Bloom is Britain's leading author and educator in the mind-body-spirit field with over thirty years of practical experience, research and teaching in modern spirituality. He is founder and co-director of The Foundation for Holistic Spirituality and the Spiritual Companions project. His mainstream career includes a doctorate in political psychology from the London School of Economics, ten years working with adults and adolescents with special needs, and delivering hundreds of trainings. His holistic background includes a two-year spiritual retreat living amongst the Saharan Berbers in the High Atlas Mountains, 25 years on the faculty of the Findhorn Foundation, and co-founder and director for 10 years at the St. James's Church Alternatives program in London. Bloom is also a meditation master and his books include the seminal "The Endorphin Effect, Feeling Safe, " and "Psychic Protection" -- and most recently "Soulution: The Holistic Manifesto". His books are translated into sixteen languages. William Bloom lives in Somerset, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0521447844
• ISBN 13: 9780521447843
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208