Making Identity Count: Building a National Identity Database

Making Identity Count presents a new constructivist method for the recovery of national identity, applies the method in nine country cases, and draws conclusions from the empirical evidence for hegemonic transitions and a variety of quantitative theories of identity.

Ted Hopf is the Provost Chair Professor of Political Science at National University of Singapore. His most recent book, Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958 (Oxford 2012), won the 2013 American Political Science Association Robert Jervis-Paul Schroeder Award for Best Book in International Relations and History.

Bentley B. Allan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on science and global politics, environmental politics, global governance, and qualitative methods. His book manuscript, From Means To Ends: How Scientific Cosmology Changed International Politics, traces the effects of scientific discourses on the values and goals of states.