A Study on Robert Keohane’s Idea of “Power”

Robert Keohane is a leading contemporary international relations scholar. His ideas and doctrines are important parts of neoliberal institutionalism. In his books Power and Interdependence, and After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy, he has a unique perspective on power, a core concept of international relations, that differs from realism and constructivism. This paper uses documentary analysis to distill and summarize the discussion of power in Robert Keohane’s work, which helps to systematically study the neoliberal institutionalist view of power and to make the classic theory show its charm beyond its time.

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From the Colonial to Feminist IR: Feminist IR Studies, the Wider FSS/GPE Research Agenda, and the Questions of Value, Valuation, Security, and Violence

Politics & Gender ◽

10.1017/s1743923x17000484 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (04) ◽

pp. 739-746 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Anna M. Agathangelou

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

International Relations ◽

Research Agenda ◽

International Politics ◽

Security Studies ◽

Global Political Economy ◽

Personal Lives ◽

Ir Studies ◽

The World ◽

Forms Of Violence

International relations (IR) feminists have significantly impacted the way we analyze the world and power. However, as Cynthia Enloe points out, “there are now signs—worrisome signs—that feminist analysts of international politics might be forgetting what they have shared” and are “making bricks to construct new intellectual barriers. That is not progress” (2015, 436). I agree. The project/process that has led to the separation/specialization of feminist security studies (FSS) and feminist global political economy (FGPE) does not constitute progress but instead ends up embodying forms of violence that erase the materialist bases of our intellectual labor's divisions (Agathangelou 1997), the historical and social constitution of our formations as intellectuals and subjects. This amnesiac approach evades our personal lives and colludes with those forces that allow for the violence that comes with abstraction. These “worrisome signs” should be explained if we are to move FSS and FGPE beyond a “merger” (Allison 2015) that speaks only to some issues and some humans in the global theater.

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IR, imperialism, and the Global South: From Libya to Venezuela

Politics ◽

10.1177/02633957211061232 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 026339572110612

Author(s):

Matteo Capasso

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

International Relations ◽

International Political Economy ◽

Global South ◽

Media Representations ◽

Capitalist Development ◽

Secondary Literature ◽

The World ◽

Growing Body

This article brings together two cases to contribute to the growing body of literature rethinking the study of international relations (IR) and the Global South: The Libyan Arab al-Jamāhīrīyah and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Drawing on media representations and secondary literature from IR and international political economy (IPE), it critically examines three main conceptual theses (authoritarian, rentier, and rogue) used to describe the historical socio-political formations of these states up to this date. Mixing oil abundance with authoritarian revolutionary fervour and foreign policy adventurism, Libya and Venezuela have been progressively reduced to the figure of one man, while presenting their current crises as localized processes delinked from the imperialist inter-state system. The article argues that these analyses, if left unquestioned, perpetuate a US-led imperial ordering of the world, while foreclosing and discrediting alternatives to capitalist development emerging from and grounded in a Global South context. In doing so, the article contributes to the growing and controversial debate on the meanings and needs for decolonizing the study of IR.

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1. Why Study IR?

Introduction to International Relations ◽

10.1093/hepl/9780198707554.003.0001 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Robert Jackson ◽

Georg Sørensen

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

International Relations ◽

Social Constructivism ◽

International Political Economy ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Clear Understanding ◽

Global Issues ◽

Online Resource ◽

The World ◽

The Relationship

Introduction to International Relations provides a concise introduction to the principal international relations theories, and explores how theory can be used to analyse contemporary issues. Readers are introduced to the most important theories, encompassing both classical and contemporary approaches and debates. Throughout the text, the chapters encourage readers to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the theories presented, and the major points of contention between them. In so doing, the text helps the reader to build a clear understanding of how major theoretical debates link up with each other, and how the structure of the discipline of international relations is established. The book places a strong emphasis throughout on the relationship between theory and practice, carefully explaining how theories organise and shape our view of the world. Topics include realism, liberalism, International Society, International Political Economy, social constructivism, post-positivism in international relations, and foreign policy. A chapter is dedicated to key global issues and how theory can be used as a tool to analyse and interpret these issues. The text is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre, which includes: short case studies, review questions, annotated web links, and a flashcard glossary.

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Introduction to International Relations

10.1093/hepl/9780198707554.001.0001 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Robert Jackson ◽

Georg Sørensen

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

International Relations ◽

Social Constructivism ◽

International Political Economy ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Clear Understanding ◽

Global Issues ◽

Online Resource ◽

The World ◽

The Relationship

Introduction to International Relations provides a concise introduction to the principal international relations theories, and explores how theory can be used to analyse contemporary issues. Readers are introduced to the most important theories, encompassing both classical and contemporary approaches and debates. Throughout the text, the chapters encourage readers to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the theories presented, and the major points of contention between them. In so doing, the text helps the reader to build a clear understanding of how major theoretical debates link up with each other, and how the structure of the discipline of international relations is established. The book places a strong emphasis throughout on the relationship between theory and practice, carefully explaining how theories organise and shape our view of the world. Topics include realism, liberalism, International Society, International Political Economy, social constructivism, post-positivism in international relations, and foreign policy. A chapter is dedicated to key global issues and how theory can be used as a tool to analyse and interpret these issues. The text is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre, which includes: short case studies, review questions, annotated web links, and a flashcard glossary.

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Decolonial Feminism and Global Politics: Border Thinking and Vulnerability as a Knowing Otherwise

Vulnerability and the Politics of Care ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197266830.003.0003 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 43-59

Author(s):

Rosalba Icaza

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

International Relations ◽

Global Politics ◽

Body Politics ◽

Main Argument ◽

The World ◽

Embodied Consciousness ◽

Epistemological Position ◽

Decolonial Feminism ◽

Border Thinking

Decolonial thinking has introduced border thinking as an epistemological position that contributes to a shift in the forms of knowing in which the world is thought from the concrete incarnated experiences of colonial difference and the wounds left. In this chapter, Argentinean feminist philosopher Maria Lugones’ (1992) interpretation of Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands foregrounds its main argument: border thinking as an embodied consciousness in which dualities and vulnerability are central for a decolonisation of how we think about the geo and body politics of knowledge, coloniality, political economy and of course, gender in International Relations and Global Politics.

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Futur des relations internationales ou relations internationales du futur?

Études internationales ◽

10.7202/701753ar ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 879-884 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bahgat Korany

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

International Relations ◽

World System ◽

Nation State ◽

Basic Approach ◽

The World ◽

Per Se ◽

New Industry

This last paper in the volume tries to pull the threads together and to detect trends of evolution in the analysis of international relations. The discussion is limited to three issues deemed basic to this evolution: 1) the increasing g importance of technology and its impact on the world System, and especially on one of its basic components: the nation-state ; 2) contents and characteristics of the new industry of futurology ; and 3) the rise of political economy as a basic approach to the study of international relations. It is suggested that we are growing beyond such simplistic divisions as "High" and "Low Politics", and obsession with methodologism per se, and that we are increasingly putting rigor and interdisciplinarity in the service of analysing "substantial" issues of international relations.

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Book ReviewsRising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change around the World. By Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies. By V. Spike Peterson. London: Routledge/RIPE Series in Global Political Economy, 2003.Common Ground or Mutual Exclusion? Women’s Movements and International Relations. Edited by Marianne Braig and Sonja Wölte. London: Zed, 2002.

Signs ◽

10.1086/491678 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 560-565

Author(s):

Michelle V. Rowley

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

International Relations ◽

Gender Equality ◽

Cultural Change ◽

Common Ground ◽

Mutual Exclusion ◽

Women's Movements ◽

Global Political Economy ◽

Cambridge University ◽

The World

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Tendances et prospectives d’avenir de l’économie-monde

Études internationales ◽

10.7202/701746ar ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 789-801

Author(s):

Immanuel Wallerstein

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

International Relations ◽

World Economy ◽

Levels Of Analysis ◽

Future Prospects ◽

Global System ◽

The Family ◽

The World ◽

The Moment ◽

Different Levels

One of the aspects characterizing the state of International Relations at the moment is the increasing emphasis on political economy. This is the approach of the present paper. It is more in the form of succinct propositions than detailed analysis, since the latter is available in the author' s previous writings. Specifically, the paper concentrates on five aspects: the nature of the world economy, its mode of functioning, its basic tendencies, the crisis of the global system, and future prospects of evolution the paper emphasizes both the interconnectedness of the different levels of analysis (from the family to the world system) as well as the importance of a diachronic and macro-structural approach.

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Governmentality of the Arctic as an international region

Cooperation and Conflict ◽

10.1177/0010836717703674 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 3-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Mathias Albert ◽

Andreas Vasilache

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Political Economy ◽

International Relations ◽

International Law ◽

Great Power ◽

The Arctic ◽

Power Politics ◽

The World ◽

Great Power Politics ◽

Governmentality Studies

Linked to the image of a wild and still-to-be-explored territory, as well as to images of the region as one of new economic opportunities, discourses on the Arctic also tie in with issues of climate change, cooperation and conflict, Arctic governance, international law and the situation and rights of indigenous people, as well as Great Power politics. Taken together, these aspects characterize a region whose formation is different from regionalization processes in other parts of the world. As the regional peculiarity of the Arctic is reflected by a variety and plurality of representations, discourses, perceptions and imaginaries, it can usefully be analyzed as a region of unfolding governmentality. The present article argues that the prospects for the Arctic are strongly intertwined with perceptions and depictions of it as an international region subject to emerging practices of governmentality. By drawing on both Foucault’s texts and governmentality studies in international relations (IR), we discuss how the Arctic is affected by governmental security rationalities, by specific logics of political economy and order-building, as well as becoming a subject for biopolitical rationalizations and imaginaries. The discourses and practices of governmentality that permeate the Arctic contribute to its spatial, figurative and political reframing and are aimed at making it a governable region that can be addressed by, and accessible for, ordering rationalities and measures.

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