Identity causes Identity causes Identity

Rather than commenting on the papers/chapters sequentially, or trying to review them on their own considerable merits, I'm going to follow Ted's injunction from long ago to look for unresolved issues and avenues for challenging or extending existing research. Although it may have been accidental, these works also have the advantage for this purpose of ranging over about a decade. In fact, since Audie and I were in graduate school together, I've had the pleasure of seeing Norms in International Relations evolve from the beginning. At the other end of the timeline is Yoi Herrera's "Identity as a Variable, " which is currently in draft form (though, certainly, a very polished draft). Despite the passage of time, some things remain more or less the same in these discussions of identity. I'll start there