Peaceful Revision of International Politics .x000d.An Exploratory Study of Identity and Power Transitions.

The proposed paper will attempt to study an intuitively obvious but long neglected role of identity in power transition in international politics. It refines and tests the claim that the level of identity formation in international politics determines the amount of violence (Adler 2001) and extent to which certain actions of states are interpreted as friendly, inimical, or rival in the system (Wendt 1999). Such varying levels of identity between rising and hegemonic states during power transitions determine the level of agreement between them over the nature and the extent of revisionism of the international system under given conditions. Thus, a dyad made up of rising and hegemonic states with high levels of mutually shared positive identity will react to power transition in a pacific manner. In contrast to such fairly high pacific case of power transition, dyads that possess fairly low levels of mutually shared positive identity are more likely to adopt adversarial strategies toward each other in international politics. The proposed paper will include a dataset about types of behavior of rising states from different regions of the world. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]