An Ontological Rethinking of Identity in International Studies by Yong-Soo Eun

An Ontological Rethinking of Identity in International Studies by Yong-Soo Eun

This book shows that identity studies in the discipline of International Relations (IR) generally cohere around two discrete understandings of being, substantialism and correlationism, and that their analytical, theoretical, and epistemological orientations are split along those lines. This binary opposition makes it difficult for identity scholarship to meet the internal validity standard of coherence while unnecessarily narrowing the theoretical lenses of constructivism in IR. The author argues that the best way to step outside that binary is to re-ground identity in ontology of immanence. The book shows that immanent ontological thinking enables us to have a pluralist epistemology and methodology for the study of identity, including both positivist and interpretivist orientations, without yielding a logically inconsistent alignment.

Yong-Soo Eun, Ph.D., is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea and the Editor-in-Chief of the Routledge series, IR Theory and Practice in Asia. Yong-Soo received his Ph.D. from the University of Warwick, UK. He is interested in IR theory, postcolonialism and decolonial thinking, Global IR, identity studies, and an ontology of immanence.

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ISBN 13	9783031308826
ISBN 10	3031308824
Title	An Ontological Rethinking of Identity in International Studies
Author	Yong-Soo Eun
Series	Palgrave Studies In International Relations
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Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Year published	2023-05-06
Number of pages	87
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