Identity and Global Politics: Empirical and Theoretical Elaborations

Introduction; P.M.Goff & K.C.Dunn PART I: ALTERITY Deep Structure, Free Floating Signifier or Something in Between?: Europe's Alterity in Putin's Russia; I.B.Neumann The Power and the Passion: Civilizational Identity and Alterity in the Wake of September 11th; J.O'Hagan Engendering Social Transformations in the Post-Socialist Czech Republic; J.True PART II: FLUIDITY Continuity and Change in South African Political Identity; J.Frueh (Re)Doing Identity in International Relations: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Bengal; S.Arnold The Trouble With the Evolués: French Republicanism, Colonial Subjectivity and Identity; S.Grovogui PART III: CONSTRUCTEDNESS Narrating Identity: Constructing the Congo During the 1960 Crisis; K.C.Dunn Contestation, Complicity and Cultural Entrepreneurship: Agency and National Identity Construction in the Transcaspian Region; D.W.Blum Whose Identity? Some Thoughts on How to Analyze Identity as a Completely Social Construct; P.Jackson PART IV: MULTIPLICITY Time for Politics; E.Manning Rights, Region and Identity: Exploring the Ambiguities of South Africa's Regional Human Rights Role; D.Black & Z.Wilson Competing Regionalisms in North America: Contestation, Spatiality and the Emergence of Cross-Border Identities?; M.H.Marchand Conclusion; P.M.Goff & K.C.Dunn