Rethinking Role Theory in Foreign Policy Analysis: Introducing Positioning Theory to International Relations Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ever since ‘roles’ and role theory have been introduced in International Relations (IR), foreign policy analysts have grappled with the different roles that states and other political actors can play in international relations. In a wider context, symbolic interactionism found its way in IR making headway for social constructivism. But role theory can be criticized as being a too static concept in order to describe the way in which actors are ...