This book argues that the status deficiency that results from the loss of a nation's favoured position in one hierarchy promotes a need among citizens to search for alternative means of delineating their country's status. This book sheds light on the intersection of identity construction, perceptions of others and violence.

FRANK LOUIS RUSCIANO is Professor of Political Science, Rider University, USA. He is the author of World Opinion and the Emerging International Order (Westport: Praeger Publishers) and Isolation and Paradox: Defining 'the Public' in Modern Political Analysis (Westport: Greenwood Press).