International politics of recognition .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theoretical preliminaries -- The international politics of recognition / Erik Ringmar -- Recognition between states : on the moral substrate of international relations / Axel Honneth -- Prickly states : recognition and disrespect between persons and peoples / Reinhard Wolf -- Symbolic and physical violence / Philippe Braud -- Is a just peace possible without thin and thick recognition? / Pierre Allan & Alexis Keller -- Empirical applications -- Spirit, recognition and foreign policy : Germany and World War II / Richard Ned Lebow -- World War I from the perspective of power cycle theory : recognition, "adjustment delusions", and the "trauma of expectations foregone" / Charles F. Doran -- Recognition, disrespect, and the struggle for Morocco : rethinking imperial Germany's security dilemma / Michelle Murray -- Self-identification, recognition and conflicts : the evolution of Taiwan's identity, 1949-2008 / Yana Zuo -- Recognition, the non-proliferation regime and proliferation crises / Alexandre Hummel -- Recognizing the enemy : terrorism as symbolic violence / Andreas Behnke -- Conclusions -- Concluding remarks on the empirical study of international recognition / Thomas Lindemann.