Constructivism’s Micro-Foundations: aspirations, social identity theory and Russia's national interests (DRAFT)
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Authors
Clunan, Anne L.
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2013
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August 28-September 1, 2013
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American Political Science Association
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Abstract
This paper employs an aspirational constructivist approach that brings together social psychology and constructivism to provide causal microfoundations for the identities and status- seeking behavior of rising and declining power. It explains how the psychological need for collective self-esteem and value rationality, and construction of multiple ingroups and outgroups, shape its national identity, its status aspirations and international behavior. It applies this approach to post-Soviet Russia, where the elite converged around a status-driven national self-image that located Russia in the group of global great powers and the West. Contrary to oft-repeated warnings of a new Cold War, however, this identity generated diffuse national interests in social, rather than material, competition for global status, primarily with the United States.
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Conference Paper
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Paper prepared for delivery at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Aug. 28- Sept. 1, 2013.
DRAFT. Please do not cite without author’s permission.
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National Security Affairs
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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24 p.
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Draft Conference paper, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 28-September 1, 2013
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.