Identity, Metanarratives, and the International Arena*

• In Event: Legitimacy and Identity

Brief Overview

Metanarratives help nations define who they are and how to act. Gauging identities via metanarratives is useful for studying behavior in global arenas. The paper shows how affinity between nations’ metanarratives predicts voting similarity in the UN.

Author

• Yael Rivka Kaplan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem