Temporality, Role Theory and Czech Foreign Policy

Using Symbolic Interaction Theory, George Herbert Mead's theory of time, and the poststructuralist conceptualization of self-other relationship, Vít Beneš provides an original three-dimensional model of national role conception to analyze Czech political and intellectual elite.

List of contents

1. Role Theory as a Conceptual Framework for Constructivist Foreign Policy Analysis
2. Conceptualizing Temporality and Othering in Role Theory
3. Discourse Analysis and Methodological Choices in Role-Theoretical Research
4. The Relative Salience of the Alter Part ("me"): How Important are the Others for the Constitution of the Czech National Role?
5. The Relative Salience of the Past for the Constitution of the Czech National Role
6. The Czech Self and the Constitutive Other: Identification or Differentiation?
7. The Czech EU policy as a Manifestation of the Czech National Role
8. Contrasting Czech, Russian and Turkish National Role Conceptions vis-à-vis Europe
Conclusion

About the author

Vít Benes is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague (IIR), Czech Republic.

Summary

Using Symbolic Interaction Theory, George Herbert Mead’s theory of time, and the poststructuralist conceptualization of self-other relationship, Vít Beneš provides an original three-dimensional model of national role conception to analyze Czech political and intellectual elite.

Product details

• Authors: Vit Benes, Vít Beneš
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2021, delayed
• EAN: 9781138086685
• ISBN: 978-1-138-08668-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Role Theory and International Relations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, Czech Republic, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Czechia, Regional Geography