scholarly journals Bringing (inter)national history into ‘Introduction to International Relations’

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-104
Author(s):  
Andrew A. Szarejko
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Introductory Courses ◽  
National History ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
International History ◽  
Great Power Politics ◽  
Do So

Many introductory courses in International Relations (IR) dedicate some portion of the class to international history. Such class segments often focus on great-power politics of the twentieth century and related academic debates. In this essay, I argue that these international history segments can better engage students by broadening the histories instructors present and by drawing on especially salient histories such as those of the country in which the course is being taught. To elaborate on how one might do this, I discuss how US-based courses could productively examine the country’s rise to great-power status. I outline three reasons to bring this topic into US-based introductory IR courses, and I draw on personal experience to provide a detailed description of the ways one can do so.

scholarly journals ASEAN and the Contemporary Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific Region: Agenda for Future Research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darwis
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Great Power Politics ◽  
Research Agendas

In June 2019, ASEAN adopted a document known as the ‘ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific.’ The document provided guidelines of how ASEAN will be relevant amid the great power politics in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and how ASEAN will continue its vision of ASEAN centrality in the conduct of international relations in Southeast Asia. This article provides the foundational basis of possible research agendas related to the Indo-Pacific Region and its correlation to the regional norms of ASEAN. It concludes that several questions that have arisen in relation to the Indo-Pacific region and ASEAN includes, but not limited to; (1) what contemporary dynamics have occurred in the Indo-Pacific region? and (2) how is ASEAN still relevant in the context of the Indo-Pacific region?

scholarly journals ASEAN and the Contemporary Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific Region: Agenda for Future Research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darwis
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Great Power Politics ◽  
Research Agendas

In June 2019, ASEAN adopted a document known as the ‘ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific.’ The document provided guidelines of how ASEAN will be relevant amid the great power politics in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and how ASEAN will continue its vision of ASEAN centrality in the conduct of international relations in Southeast Asia. This article provides the foundational basis of possible research agendas related to the Indo-Pacific Region and its correlation to the regional norms of ASEAN. It concludes that several questions that have arisen in relation to the Indo-Pacific region and ASEAN includes, but not limited to; (1) what contemporary dynamics have occurred in the Indo-Pacific region? and (2) how is ASEAN still relevant in the context of the Indo-Pacific region?

Orders of Exclusion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle M. Lascurettes
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Order ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Change Order ◽  
Do So

When and why do powerful countries seek to enact major changes to international order, the broad set of rules that guide behavior in world politics? This question is particularly important today given the Trump administration’s clear disregard for the reigning liberal international order in the United States. Across the globe, there is also uncertainty over what China might seek to replace that order with as it continues to amass power and influence. Together, these developments mean that what motivates great powers to shape and change order will remain at the forefront of debates over the future of world politics. Prior studies have focused on how the origins of international orders have been consensus-driven and inclusive. By contrast, this book argues that the propelling motivation for great power order building at important historical junctures has typically been exclusionary, centered around combatting other actors rather than cooperatively engaging with them. Dominant powers pursue fundamental changes to order when they perceive a major new threat on the horizon. Moreover, they do so for the purpose of targeting this perceived threat, be it another powerful state or a foreboding ideological movement. The goal of foundational rule writing in international relations, then, is blocking that threatening entity from amassing further influence, a motive Lascurettes illustrates at work across more than three hundred years of history. Far from falling outside of the bounds of traditional statecraft, order building is the continuation of power politics by other means.

Governmentality of the Arctic as an international region

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
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.

The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics, 1789-1989

2006 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
G. John Ikenberry ◽  
Mark L. Haas
Keyword(s):  
Great Power ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Great Power Politics

The State of City Diplomacy

Urbanisation ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 245574712091318
Author(s):  
Ian Klaus
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Collective Voice ◽  
Great Power Politics

Cities have organised into a global collective voice. Doing so has required diplomatic maturation and resulted in new diplomatic standing. Both these developments will be tested with the return of great power politics.

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