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How do new actors emerge in the international system? What are the determinants of corporate agency or “actorhood” in world politics? This paper focuses on political ideologies as constitutive elements of corporate agency in world politics. Political ideologies act as the “glue” that holds collective actors together and allows us to think of collections of networks, institutions, or populations as “unitary actors” in international politics. In the contemporary international system nationalism has been the dominant political ideology that has played a constitutive role in producing corporate agency at the international-systemic level. Nationalism is not the only political ideology that can be used to constitute corporate agents in international politics – socialism, anarchism, communism, and Islamism are all examples of other forms of political ideologies that can be drawn upon by political entrepreneurs in attempts to stimulate new forms of collective action in world politics. Yet nationalism has undoubtedly been the most successful of these ideologies in contemporary world politics – not the least due to its ability to provide a framework for linking territories with collective identities. The first section of the paper examines the neglect in IR of the role that nationalism and other political ideologies play in constituting corporate agency or “actorhood” in world politics. The second section of the paper – drawing on a number of historical examples of transnational movements -- examines how ideologies are used to create new constituencies/new corporate agents during processes of political mobilization. Finally, the empirical portion of the paper consists of a case study of the emergence of Algerian nationalism as a transnational identity movement and its eventual consolidation in formal recognition as a state. The case of Algeria challenges conventional models of state formation and state-building, which have privileged territorial and material processes over deterritorialized and ideational processes. In the Algerian case, nationalism was used as a tool which political entrepreneurs used to constitute a new collective identity that could exert corporate agency at the international systemic level. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of the argument for 1) understanding the emergence of new forms of non-territorial corporate agency in world politics, such as transnational Islamist movements and 2) advancing and improving systemic-level theorizing in IR.
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Adamson, Fiona. "The Constitutive Power of Political Ideology: Nationalism and the Emergence of Corporate Agency in World Politics" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 31, 2006 Online <PDF>. 2008-06-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p152657_index.html>

Adamson, F. B. (2006, Aug) "The Constitutive Power of Political Ideology: Nationalism and the Emergence of Corporate Agency in World Politics" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA Online <PDF> Retrieved 2008-06-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p152657_index.html

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