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After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West

After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West

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Not being of the West; being behind the West; not being modern enough; not being developed or industrialized, secular, civilized, Christian, transparent, or democratic - these descriptions have all served to stigmatize certain states through history. Drawing on constructivism as well as the insights of social theorists and philosophers, After Defeat demonstrates that stigmatization in international relations can lead to a sense of national shame, as well as auto-Orientalism and inferior status. Ayşe Zarakol argues that stigmatized states become extra-sensitive to concerns about status, and shape their foreign policy accordingly. The theoretical argument is supported by a detailed historical overview of central examples of the established/outsider dichotomy throughout the evolution of the modern states system, and in-depth studies of Turkey after the First World War, Japan after the Second World War, and Russia after the Cold War.

Author: Ayse Zarakol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/01/2011
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 8.93h x 6.26w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780521145565

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2011

About the Author
Zarakol, Ayse: - Ayşe Zarakol is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University. She teaches courses on global politics, international security and political theory, and her research focuses on the social evolution of the international system and the integration of regions outside of the West into the modern international order.

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