The United States, Israel, and the Search for International Order Socializing States

• Main Author: Thies, Cameron G.
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2013; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Role Theory and International Relations
• Subjects: Cameron Thies; Comparative Politics; Foreign Policy; foreign policy roles; International organization; International Politics; International Relations; International relations > Philosophy; International Relations Theory; Israel > Foreign relations; Modern Political Theory; neorealism; Newly independent states; Political Psychology; role theory; Social Psychology; state socialization; United States > Foreign relations; Waltz's Theory; Allied Role; United States; Novice State; role theory; Neutral Role; Master Statuses; Regional Leader Role; Great Power; international relations; international relations theory; foreign policy roles; Dissonance Reduction; Middle Eastern Subsystem; neorealism; Reject Accept Reject Accept; Sameness Effect; World War; Monroe Doctrine; Role Location Process; state socialization; Organization Of American States; National Role Conceptions; Act III; Cameron Thies; Master Roles; Roosevelt Corollary; Great Power Role; Major Member State; Socialization Game
• ISBN: 9780415832939; 0415818478; 0415832934; 9780415818476
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203581247

How do emerging states become full, functioning members of the international system? In this book, Cameron G. Thies argues that new and emerging states are subject to socialization efforts by current member states, which guide them in locating their position in the international system. Thies develops a theoretical approach to understanding how states socialize each other into and out of different roles in the international system, such as regional power, ally, and peacekeeper. The concept of state socialization is developed using role theory, a middle-range theory developed in the interdisciplinary field of social psychology. This middle-range theory helps to flesh out the theoretical mechanisms often missing in grand theories like neorealism and constructivism. The result is a structural theory of international politics that also allows for the explanation of actual foreign policy behavior by states. The foreign policy histories of the U.S. and Israel are analyzed using this theoretical approach to show how international social pressure has affected the kinds of roles they have adopted throughout their histories, as well as the kinds of roles that they have not been allowed to adopt. By considering the effects of international socialization attempts on their foreign policy behavior, Thies shows the well-known cases of the U.S. and Israel in a new light. The United States, Israel, and the Search for International Order argues that the process by which states learn their appropriate roles and behaviors in the international social order is crucial to understanding international conflict and cooperation, which will be significant for those studying both theory and method in international relations, foreign policy, and diplomatic history.