Identity, Interest and Action : A Cultural Explanation of Sweden's Intervention in the Thirty Years War
by
Erik Ringmar
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
ISBN-10
0521026032
ISBN-13
9780521026031
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 27th, 2008
Print length
252 Pages
Weight
396 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.60 x 1.60 cms
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A powerful critique of rational choice theory which offers a solution to an important historiographical puzzle. Erik Ringmar's original, non-rational theory of action demonstrates the fundamental role of identity in explaining a country's involvement in war.
This book offers an original combination of cultural and narrative theory with an empirical study of identity and political action. It is at once a powerful critique of rational choice theories of action and a solution to the historiographical puzzle of why Sweden went to war in 1630. Erik Ringmar argues that people act not only for reasons of interest, but also for reasons of identity, and that the latter are, in fact, more fundamental. Deploying his alternative, non-rational theory of action in his account of the Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years War, he shows it to have been an attempt on behalf of the Swedish leaders to gain recognition for themselves and their country. Further to this, he demonstrates the importance of questions of identity to the study of war and of narrative theories of action to the social sciences in general.
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