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The anthropomorphic fallacy in international relations discourse is an offshoot of the "state-as-person fiction". It is defined as an organicist metaphor which establishes a comparison between a state and a living organism whose constitutive elements (e.g ., individual cells, arms, legs

or feet) are essentially subordinated to the whole and od not have a life of their own. As such, the anthropomorphic fallacy has built in totalitarian political values which often go by unnoticed and unintendedly creep into both theoretical and normative discourse. Furthermore, the

anthropomorphic fallacy has a potential for the mobilization of the loyalties and energies of individual human beings for the benefit of the state, inasmuch as it encourages a personal identifica tion with the state and arouses nationalistic emotions.

The anthropomorphic fallacy has been identified in the discourse of educators and practitioners, as well as in that of first rate theorists such as Hedley Bull, Robert Keohane, Stephen Krasner, Joseph Nye and Kenneth Waltz.

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