scholarly journals Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
KIMBERLY HUTCHINGS ◽  
PATRICIA OWENS
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
New Research ◽  
International Thought

Abstract Canons of intellectual “greats” anchor the history and scope of academic disciplines. Within international relations (IR), such a canon emerged in the mid-twentieth century and is almost entirely male. Why are women thinkers absent from IR’s canon? We show that it is not due to a lack of international thought, or that this thought fell outside established IR theories. Rather it is due to the gendered and racialized selection and reception of work that is deemed to be canonical. In contrast, we show what can be gained by reclaiming women’s international thought through analyses of three intellectuals whose work was authoritative and influential in its own time or today. Our findings question several of the basic premises underpinning IR’s existing canon and suggest the need for a new research agenda on women international thinkers as part of a fundamental rethinking of the history and scope of the discipline.

Forced Migration Magnitude and violence in international crises: 1945–2015

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-357
Author(s):  
Hemda Ben-Yehuda ◽  
Rami Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
International Crises ◽  
International Crisis ◽  
Crisis Behavior ◽  
New Research ◽  
Security Concern

Abstract This study focuses on forced migration and interstate violence during international crises, as a major security concern with salient implications for international relations stability. The empirical data consists of 229 crises designated as Forced Migration Crises (FMC), identified within the 374 crises of the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) project. The study outlines a framework for analyzing FMC compared with Non-Forced Migration Crises (NFMC), presents an index of Forced Migration Magnitude (FMM), and probes three hypotheses. It points to transformations in forced migration since WWII, compares crises with and without forced migration, and explores patterns of FMM and violence. Results lead to rejection of hypothesis 1 on similarities between FMC and NFMC, supporting hypothesis 2 on considerable diversity between them. Findings on extended scope, strategic locale, enduring forced migration problems and increased violence support hypothesis 3, challenging the placement of forced migration merely as a social or humanitarian domestic concern. Instead, results show a salient increase in FMM, coupled with more severe interstate violence and war, dangerously destabilizing regions worldwide. These patterns require the integration of forced migration within crisis frameworks, as a new research agenda, to understand the nature of forced migration in the 21st century and its impact.

The Future of International Relations

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Reich ◽  
Richard Ned Lebow
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Research ◽  
Material Power

This chapter revisits the concept of hegemony, elaborating some of the most important connections among them and assessing their implications for both U.S. foreign policy and international relations theory. Drawing on empirical findings laid out in the previous chapters, this chapter contends that hegemony is no longer applicable to international affairs, as its constituent functions are widely shared and exercised more by negotiation than fiat. This constellation requires a new conceptualization of influence. The chapter points to a new research agenda for the present century based on the recognition that we now live in a multipowered world—where actors combine social and material power to gain influence in varying ways—and not a unipolar world.

Diaspora economics: new perspectives

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 1110-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amelie F. Constant ◽  
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
New Research ◽  
Culture Of Origin

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new field and suggest a new research agenda. Design/methodology/approach Combine ethnicity, migration and international relations into a new thinking. Provide a typology of diaspora and a thorough evaluation of its role and the roles of the home and host countries. Findings Diaspora economics is more than a new word for migration economics. It opens a new strand to political economy. Diaspora is perceived to be a well-defined group of migrants and their offspring with a joined cultural identity and ongoing identification with the country or culture of origin. This implies the potential to undermine the nation-state. Diasporas can shape policies in the host countries. Originality/value Provide a new understanding of global human relations.

scholarly journals Decolonizing the boomerang effect in global queer politics: A new critical framework for sociological analysis of human rights contestation

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Waites
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Boomerang Effect ◽  
Queer Politics ◽  
Critical Model ◽  
New Research

This article proposes a new critical framework for analysing transnational human rights-claiming and contestation: a ‘critical model of the boomerang effect’, that can embody sociological understanding and insights from decolonizing analyses. The article develops a critique of Keck and Sikkink’s well-known model of the ‘boomerang effect’, from politics and international relations. The new critical model is needed to analyse contestations including global queer politics, particularly to examine where and how actors in formerly or currently colonized states from the Global South can draw on the United Nations human rights system. The new model requires analysis of four themes, with a decolonizing enquiry applied to each: (1) articulation of human rights; (2) social structures and resources; (3) socio-cultural contexts; and (4) subjectivation. These themes are examined to illuminate two pivotal cases claiming decriminalization of same-sex sexual acts: Caleb Orozco in Belize, and Jason Jones in relation to Trinidad and Tobago – generating a new research agenda.

Suburbs in transition: new approaches to suburban history

Urban History ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUTH MCMANUS ◽  
PHILIP J. ETHINGTON
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Suburban History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
New Research ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
Scholarly Attention

The history of suburbs has received so much scholarly attention in recent decades that it is time to take stock of what has been established, in order to discern aspects of suburbs that are still unknown. To date, the main lines of inquiry have been dedicated to the origins, growth, diverse typologies, culture and politics of suburbs, as well as to newer topics such as the gendered nature of suburban space. The vast majority of these studies have been about particular times and places. The authors propose a new perspective on the study of suburbs, one which will begin to investigate the transformations of suburbs after they have been established. Taking the entire era from the mid-nineteenth century through to the late twentieth century as a whole, it is argued that suburbs should be subjected to a longitudinal analysis, examining their development in the context of metropolises that usually enveloped them within a generation or two of their founding. It is proposed that investigation of these ‘transitions’ should be undertaken in parallel with the changes that occur in the life-cycles of their residents. It is suggested that an exploration of the interaction of these factors will open a broad new research agenda for suburban history as a subfield of urban history.

The Perseverance of Archaeology: New Data from a Rescue Investigation at Triq Fejġel in Rabat and its Contribution to the Punic and Roman Maltese Funerary Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-154
Author(s):  
Kevin Borda ◽  
Bernardette Mercieca-Spiteri ◽  
Paolo Spadaro ◽  
Carlo Veca
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
New Research ◽  
Time Frames

Abstract The Maltese funerary context during the Punic and Roman times is documented from discoveries and archaeological reports primarily from the twentieth century. Notwithstanding, documentation standards in the first half of the last century were such as to provide limited archaeological data to properly understand the context, phasing and ritual. The combination of robust policy-driven archaeological monitoring procedures together with a scientific excavation of reported discoveries is essential to provide fresh archaeological data which must necessarily be published within adequate time frames. This will by no small means contribute to the formulation of a proper national research agenda by identifying lacunae as well as giving rise to new research questions. This study draws attention to the survival of archaeology seen as limited stratigraphic contexts that have persevered through the centuries and the continuous exploitation of the site. It is a case study of the application of a stratigraphic scientific approach to a recent archaeological discovery during archaeological monitoring, providing ample data with regard to funerary reuse and associated practices and rituals together with an in-depth osteological observation of skeletal remains therein discovered.

scholarly journals A Bibliometrics Approach to Understanding Conceptual Breadth, Depth and Development: The Case of New Public Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dion Curry ◽  
Steven Van de Walle
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Research ◽  
Over Time

This article uses bibliometric analysis to track the breadth and depth of the concept of New Public Management as it has developed in the 25 years since the coining of the term, in order to provide a deeper understanding of how academics have engaged with the subject. The article uses bibliometric and qualitative analysis to map the use of the concept as a whole and over time, and the use of bibliometrics provides an original, methodical and quantitative way of analysing the usage and movement of New Public Management as a concept. It looks at the breadth of the literature in terms of whether it has spread to new journals or academic disciplines and depth in terms of whether articles on New Public Management engage with new research on the subject. It is shown that the breadth of the literature has increased, but there has been no significant deepening. By providing an overarching view of New Public Management as a concept, this article allows for more systematic academic engagement with the concept, leading to a deeper research agenda that goes beyond its current somewhat limited usage.

Migration, sons of the soil conflict, and international relations

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew I. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
International Relations ◽  
National Security ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
New Research

For most of the 20th century, the discipline of international relations largely ignored migration. Although recent work has made important contributions, a number of gaps remain, as the emerging literature tends to examine national security, international migration, forced migration, and developed countries, without exploring internal conflict, internal migration, voluntary migration, and developing countries. This article examines the enduring gaps in the literature on migration in international relations. It uses the concept of “sons of the soil” conflicts and the illustrative example of Côte d’Ivoire to highlight these overlooked dimensions. This serves to underscore the need for a new research agenda on migration in international relations.

Risk and International Relations: A New Research Agenda?

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darryl Jarvis ◽  
Martin Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
New Research
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