PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

This study theorizes that the state as a social entity – which is therefore subject to unconscious symbolic violence before it forms and embodies the physical understanding of fear and anarchy in the interactive processes of international relations. The primary objective of the study is to utilize Bourdieusian sociological research and terminology to improve our understanding regarding the formation and change of state identity. Secondly, the study purposes to contribute to the existing constructivist understanding of state identity in line with Bourdieusian structural constructivism.