TY - JOUR
T1 - Misplaced from the start
T2 - Israel’s state identity and the search for regional acceptance
AU - Thies, Cameron G.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the University of Bath?s Internationalization Funding.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Department of Politics and International Studies.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/7/3
Y1 - 2020/7/3
N2 - This paper considers the elements that constitute Israel’s state identity, from its deepest layers of corporate identity through the middle layer of identification processes between self and other, to the most superficial layer at which political entrepreneurs are able to shape aspects of identity in the short term. Israel’s state identity is examined through the use of roles, alongside other elements of societal identity upon which it supervenes. Continuities and changes in Israel’s state identity are analyzed from independence in its geographic region through efforts to reimagine its cognitive region in the Mediterranean or Europe. While Israel is often frustrated in its inability to enact roles commensurate with its status in its geographic region, there is little agreement over what cognitive region this misplaced state really belongs in. For the moment, Israel remains a misplaced state in its geographic region.
AB - This paper considers the elements that constitute Israel’s state identity, from its deepest layers of corporate identity through the middle layer of identification processes between self and other, to the most superficial layer at which political entrepreneurs are able to shape aspects of identity in the short term. Israel’s state identity is examined through the use of roles, alongside other elements of societal identity upon which it supervenes. Continuities and changes in Israel’s state identity are analyzed from independence in its geographic region through efforts to reimagine its cognitive region in the Mediterranean or Europe. While Israel is often frustrated in its inability to enact roles commensurate with its status in its geographic region, there is little agreement over what cognitive region this misplaced state really belongs in. For the moment, Israel remains a misplaced state in its geographic region.
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U2 - 10.1080/09557571.2020.1723062
DO - 10.1080/09557571.2020.1723062
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85080920445
VL - 33
SP - 527
EP - 541
JO - Cambridge Review of International Affairs
JF - Cambridge Review of International Affairs
SN - 0955-7571
IS - 4
ER -