The struggle for recognition

This is a new project I’m working on together with a friend, Thomas Lindemann in Bourdeaux. It’s on “the struggle for recognition in international relations.” It’s going to be an edited volume with us two as editors. The kind of contributors Thomas has managed to gather together is truly astonishing (headed by Axel Honneth, who, for my money, is greatest living social theorist). We’ve sent the proposal to Cambridge UP. They’d be fools not to accept it.

The basic idea is that many international conflicts have their origin in denials of status rather than in quests for material or political gain.  This is the old argument I used for my PhD (see Identity, Interest & Action) and it owes everything to my old teacher Alessandro Pizzorno (also a contributor to our volume we hope).