scholarly journals Recognition, multiplicity and the elusive international

2021 ◽  
pp. 175508822110214
Author(s):  
Alex Hoseason
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
International Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Transnational Movements ◽  
Recognition Theory ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Moral Geographies ◽  
Further Development

This article argues that the normative promise of recognition theory in International Relations has become increasingly inadequate to the cross-cutting and intersecting issues characteristic of a globalised and fragmented world. Engaging in critical readings of cosmopolitan forms of recognition theory, the critique of sovereignty and Markell’s influential critique of recognition theory, I suggest that the increasing ontological specificity of recognition theory in IR has come at the expense of its ability to develop links between different areas of international politics. The result is a failure to deal with recognition’s simultaneity, or the co-existence of analytically distinct and internally coherent recognition orders that is characteristic of the international. Building on this insight, I argue that a more historically-sensitive and materialist approach to recognition can be grounded in the concept of multiplicity. By opening recognition up to processes of interaction, and not merely reproduction, multiplicity frames the international more clearly as a historical presupposition, rather than a limit, of recognition. Furthermore, placing recognition struggles within the state, international institutions or transnational movements in relation to each other ensures that IR can contribute to the further development of recognition theory by situating recognition struggles at the intersection of different moral geographies.

The position of the State in the international system from the perspective of major schools of thought in international relations

2019 ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Salah Hassan Mohammed ◽  
Mahaa Ahmed Al-Mawla
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Politics ◽  
International System ◽  
International Order ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Status ◽  
Future Vision

The Study is based on the state as one of the main pillars in international politics. In additions, it tackles its position in the international order from the major schools perspectives in international relations, Especially, these schools differ in the status and priorities of the state according to its priorities, also, each scholar has a different point of view. The research is dedicated to providing a future vision of the state's position in the international order in which based on the vision of the major schools in international relations.

Enacting meaning-in-use: qualitative research on norms and international relations

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTJE WIENER
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
Evaluation Technique

AbstractThis article proposes a framework for empirical research on contested meaning of norms in international politics. The goal is to identify a design for empirical research to examine associative connotations of norms that come to the fore when norms are contested in situations of governance beyond-the-state and especially in crises. If cultural practices shape experience and expectations, they need to be identified and made ‘account-able’ based on empirical research. To that end, the proposed qualitative approach centres on individually enacted meaning-in-use. The framework comprises norm-types, conditions of contestation, types of divergence and opposition-deriving as a specific interview evaluation technique. Section one situates the problem of contestation in the field of constructivist research on norms. Section two introduces distinctive conditions of contestation and types of norms. Section three details the methodology of conducting and evaluating interviews and presents the technique of opposition-deriving with a view to reconstructing the structure of meaning-in-use. Section four concludes with an outlook to follow-up research.

Democratism: Towards an explanatory approach to international politics

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 547-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Agné
Keyword(s):  
International Institutions ◽  
International Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Conflict And Cooperation ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
New Perspective

AbstractInternational politics has often been viewed as a brutal place where might trumps right and where, as a consequence, questions of democracy are irrelevant to ask. In the last decades, however, scholars and political leaders have increasingly suggested that elements of democracy exist in governance beyond individual states. If this is so, how does democracy beyond the state shape international politics? This article suggests conceptual preliminaries for theorising consequences of democracy beyond the state in general and their implications for problems of peace and conflict in particular. The purpose is twofold: first, to begin reconstructing existing normative democratic theory into an explanatory perspective sensitive to international politics; second, to indicate how this new perspective is able to explain empirical observations pertaining to conflict and cooperation among states; international institutions; foreign policies; human rights protection; and the violence of transnational terrorist networks.

The Islamic Paradigm of Nations: Toward a Neo-Classical Approach

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amr Sabet
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Good Life ◽  
International Politics ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
International Community ◽  
The State ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Classical Approach ◽  
Sovereign State

As late as 1966, Martin Wight could still pose the question: “why is there no international relations theory?” By this he meant the absence of a tradition of speculation about relations between states, family of nations, or the international community, comparable to that of political theory as speculation about the state. To the extent that it did exist, it was marked by “intellectual and moral poverty” caused both by the prejudice imposed by the sovereign state and the belief in progress (Wight 1995: 15-16 &19). Unlike political theory, which has been progressivist in its concern with pursuing interests of state as “theory of the good life”, international politics as the “theory of survival” constituted the “realm of recurrence and repetition” (Wight 1995: 25 & 32). Essentially, therefore, it had nothing new to offer.

Where is Iran? Politics between State and Nation, Inside and Outside the Polity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annabelle Sreberny ◽  
Gholam Khiabany
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
The State ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Iranian Politics ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Political Geographies

Three powerful spatial dynamics are at work in the analysis of a country’s political orbit. One is the classic remit of the international relations between states. The second is the mainstream remit of political analysis, the national dialogue – sometimes open, often constrained – between the state and its inhabitants. In addition, the third is the cross-border space between the state and its citizens who – as diaspora, exiles, and migrants – live in other countries. Too often, each is analysed in isolation, part of the intellectually unedifying division of academic work. In this chapter, we explore where contemporary Iranian politics exists and how it is played out through each of these political geographies.

Ethnicity and the study of international relations in the post-soviet Russia

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nayil’ M. Mukharyamov
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Approaches To Studying ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Cross Fertilization

The essay concentrates on Russian studies of ethnicity and identifies substantialist and relational approaches to studying ethnicity in international relations. Substantialists see the impact of ethnicity as the main organizing force of international politics and view the states as principally ethnocentric units, driven by ambitions of large ethnic groups. In their turn, relationists question these assumptions and seek to depoliticise the notion of ethnicity. Rather than concentrating on states or large ethnic groups in international politics, they take an individual as the main unit of analysis and argue that ethnicity is a choice, not a destiny. The author sees both substantialism and relationism as actively developing in Russia and associates progress in the field with further development and cross-fertilization of the two ideas.

Hegel's reluctant realism and the transnationalisation of civil society

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Martin Jaeger
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Realist Interpretation ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
International Anarchy

Qualifying a realist interpretation, this essay argues that the dialectical involvement of the state as an individual with its external relations exposes international politics as a matter of both anarchy and war, and mutual recognition and practical morality among states in Hegel's theory of international relations. With the absolute distinction between internal community and external anarchy removed, Hegel's account of civil society becomes relevant to his theory of international relations. Both as an analogy and concretely, it provides indications for a partial transcendence of sovereign statehood and international anarchy by institutionalised co-operation and political (self-)regulation in a transnationalising civil society.

Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Catherine Baker
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Politics ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Military Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Military

This introduction reviews debates about ‘militarisation’ in the disciplines which have contributed to Critical Military Studies (including history, geography, sociology and International Relations) and explains the ‘aesthetic’ and ‘embodied’ turns that this volume shows how to synthesise. To study militarisation, aesthetics and embodiment together, it argues, involves studying combinations of how things are sensed and how bodies experience them, across contexts related to the military and its place in wider society: the complex and contradictory affective interplay of aesthetics and embodiment, which feminist approaches have been particularly fruitful for theorising, informs what we know about militarisation today. However, the very concept of ‘militarisation’ makes assumptions about normal relationships between the state, the public and violence which may not be transhistorically or even globally applicable, especially where state violence has been inherent to enforcing systems of racial oppression.

scholarly journals Ethiopia and Health Diplomacy during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 437
Author(s):  
Irfa Puspitasari
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
International Support ◽  
Health Diplomacy

Meskipun banyak pengamat studi Hubungan Internasional pesimis terhadap kerjasama antar negara, namun tulisan ini berupaya berargumentasi sebaliknya. Mewabahnya Covid-19 di awal tahun 2020 mengubah dinamika hubungan internasional. Respon negara yang sigap dan tepat, dapat meminimalkan kerugian akibat minimnya sumber daya dan kondisi krisis kesehatan maupun ekonomi sosial. Keberhasilan negara dalam merespon secara sigap semakin meningkat keberhasilannya dengan diplomasi kesehatan yang dilakukan oleh negara tersebut sehingga mendapatkan dukungan internasional dari pemerintah negara lain, dari kawasan maupun dari lembaga internasional. Tulisan ini berupaya membuktikan hal tersebut melalui pengalaman yang terjadi di Ethiopia. Kata-kata kunci: Covid- 19, Diplomasi Kesehatan, Ethiopia, dukungan internasional Many scholars of International Relations studies are pessimistic about cooperation between countries, however this paper attempts to argue the opposite. Covid-19 outbreak in early 2020 changed the dynamics of international relations. An alert and appropriate response from the state can minimize losses despite lack of resources amid health and social economic crises. The country's success in responding swiftly has increased with health diplomacy carried out by the country so that it has received international support from other governments, regional as well as from international institutions. This paper seeks to prove this through Ethiopia’s experiences.Keywords: Covid 19, Health diplomacy, Ethiopia, international support

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