Beware of organicism: the narrative self of the state

Iver B. Neumann

doi:10.1017/S0260210504006059

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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.

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