{"product_id":"the-international-self-mira-m-sucharov-9780791465066","title":"The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUses a social-psychoanalytic model to argue that collective identity shapes foreign policy changes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe International Self explores an age-old question in international affairs, one that has been particularly pressing in the context of the contemporary Middle East: what leads long-standing adversaries to seek peace? Mira M. Sucharov employs a socio-psychoanalytic model to argue that collective identity ultimately shapes foreign policy and policy change. Specifically, she shows that all states possess a distinctive role-identity that tends to shape behavior in the international realm. When policy deviates too greatly from the established role-identity, the population experiences cognitive dissonance and expresses this through counternarratives-an unconscious representation of what the polity collectively fears in itself-propelling political elites to realign the state's policy with its identity. Focusing on Israel's decision to embark on negotiations leading to the 1993 agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Sucharov sees this policy reversal as a reaction to the unease generated by two events in the 1980s-the war in Lebanon and the first Palestinian Intifada-that contradicted Israelis' perceptions of their state as a \"defensive warrior.\" Her argument bridges the fields of conflict resolution, Middle East studies, and international relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mira M. Sucharov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791465063\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791465066\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.08w x 0.59d","brand":"Mira M. Sucharov","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448948601087,"sku":"9780791465066","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bf08d034-656f-48b6-ad6a-f68ceb1cacb8.jpg?v=1777261306","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-international-self-mira-m-sucharov-9780791465066","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}