Thomas Lindemann, Erik Ringmar (eds). The International Politics of Recognition Boulder, Co./Londres, Paradigm Publishers, 2012, VII-239 pages. Thomas Lindemann. Causes of War : The Struggle for Recognition Colchester, European Consortium for Political Research Press, 2010, 169 pages.

2014 ◽  
Vol N° 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Touzé
Keyword(s):  
International Politics ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
Political Research ◽  
Causes Of War ◽  
Struggle For Recognition

Gain, Fear and Glory

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Martin Wight
Keyword(s):  
International Politics ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Preventive War ◽  
Building Trust ◽  
Causes Of War

This paper analyses the three causes of war identified by Thucydides and his most eminent translator, Thomas Hobbes. Looking beyond the circumstantial occasions through which wars begin, the chief motives of belligerents have been to pursue material gains, to respond to fears, and to obtain glory and prestige for a doctrine. Wight calls ‘simple Thucydidean fear … the prime motive in international politics’ because it involves ‘a rational apprehension of contingent evil’, not simply ‘some unreasoning emotion’. Wight discusses how fear may be a cause of preventive war, and he labels the great difficulty of building trust between former adversaries ‘the Hobbesian predicament’. Wight defines this predicament as follows: ‘communities of honest and decent men, when they have suffered a long series of mutual injuries, and have a rational apprehension each that its own existence is at stake, and when moreover they live in inescapable juxtaposition, cannot transpose themselves into an attitude of mutual trust’. He also explores the tension between freedom and necessity: the circumstances at hand may seem to be tractable, with choices available between possible decisions and their likely consequences; yet the factors leading to war may prove inescapable.

Maneuvers; the International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives. By Cynthia Enloe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 418p. $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-253
Author(s):  
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
Keyword(s):  
International Politics ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Causes Of War ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 1960S

When I was an undergraduate in the 1960s, as the Vietnam conflict was escalating, I took Stanley Hoffmann's mesmeriz- ing course, "Causes of War." I thought back to this class as I read Cynthia Enloe's book, which deserves all the superla- tives it has accrued. The experience of reading now and remembering back left me wondering: Without Enloe to consult (her first book on militarism and gender came out in the early 1980s), what were we missing in Hoffmann's class? The answer, I think, is this: We could understand well enough the contending theories about why nations go to war; but in the absence of Enloe, we were less able to ask how militaries could manage such massive mobilizations that required the often calamitous sacrifice of precious lives even for wars whose purposes seemed remote or unconvincing.

Causes of war: the struggle for recognition

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 592-593
Author(s):  
Tom Hashimoto
Keyword(s):  
Causes Of War ◽  
Struggle For Recognition

Salvaging adulthood at youth work: Dignity, social disrespect, and the micro-politics of recognition in a polarized world

Organization ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 135050842097333
Author(s):  
Jina Mao ◽  
Y. Alex Xue
Keyword(s):  
Fast Food ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
Middle Range ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Struggle For Recognition

Grounded in an ethnographic study of a US fast food chain, this paper explores how the rising employment polarization under neoliberalism may pose a threat to dignity via the predicament of adults doing youth work. We draw on Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition to develop a tripartite framework of the micro-politics of recognition, aimed as a middle-range construct for guiding empirical studies of work through the lens of dignity. We argue that a study of dignity at work, with the everyday human struggle for recognition as the focal point, may help to illuminate the realities of contemporary work and enable a humanistic critique of contemporary capitalism. We also highlight adulthood as the underarticulated yet morally laden identity signifier in organizational inquiry, which may gain added importance as more adults enter occupations where few institutional supports of adulthood exist.

The Politics of Recognition

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Browning Gary
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
Political Context ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
State Of Nature ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Social ◽  
Struggle For Recognition

Hobbes and Hegel are standardly taken to be contrasting political theorists, who maintain contrasting views on philosophy, individualism, and society. However, Oakeshott’s reading of Hobbes is a reminder that Hobbes can be read in ways that reduce antagonisms between Hobbes and Hegel. Hobbes’s state of nature is an artificial device that is internally related to the significance of political artifice in rendering the social world a reasonable context for interaction just as the struggle for recognition in Hegel shows the need for a political context in which individuals can interact with one another in ways that are productive and equilibrated. Both Hobbes and Hegel invoke notions of mortality, conflict and sociality in their imaginative depictions of life and death struggles. They also share a notion of the sovereignty of nation-states and were doubtful over the viability of international treaties and organisations.

International Relations and Political Philosophy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Wight
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Material Interest ◽  
International Theory ◽  
Causes Of War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Values ◽  
Raymond Aron ◽  
Hans Morgenthau

This book collects Martin Wight’s works on the theory and philosophy of international politics. It includes classic works, such as “Why Is There No International Theory?” and “Western Values in International Relations,” as well as previously unpublished works such as “The Communist Theory of International Relations” and “Gain, Fear and Glory: Reflections on the Nature of International Politics.” These works encompass four categories: (a) traditions of thinking about international politics since the sixteenth century, (b) the causes and functions of war, (c) international and regime legitimacy, and (d) fortune and irony in international politics. Wight identifies and analyzes three major traditions of thinking about international politics in the West since the sixteenth century: Realism, Rationalism, and Revolutionism, also known as the Machiavellian, Grotian, and Kantian approaches. Wight examines the causes of war highlighted by Thucydides and Hobbes (material interest, fear, and reputation), and considers the functions of war in international politics (such as winning and retaining national independence and upholding the balance of power). Wight reviews the history of dynastic and popular legitimacy as well as post-1945 concepts of international and domestic legitimacy. Finally, Wight considers fortune and irony, including the decision-maker’s frequent rediscovery of the recalcitrance of events. Unintended, unexpected, and ironical consequences abound in international politics. This volume also features eight book reviews by Wight, including his assessments of works by Raymond Aron, E. H. Carr, Friedrich Meinecke, and Hans Morgenthau.

Feminism as Revolutionary Practice: From Justice and the Politics of Recognition to Freedom

Hypatia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marieke Borren
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political Equality ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Collective Empowerment ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
Common Action

In the 1980s extra‐parliamentary social movements and critical theories of race, class, and gender added a new sociocultural understanding of justice—recognition— to the much older socioeconomic one. The best‐known form of the struggle for recognition is the identity politics of disadvantaged groups. I argue that there is still another option to conceptualize their predicament, neglected in recent political philosophy, which understands exclusion not in terms of injustice, more particularly a lack of sociocultural recognition, but in terms of a lack of freedom. I draw my inspiration from Hannah Arendt's model of political action. Arendt diagnoses exclusion not solely as a mode of injustice, but as a lack of participation and public freedom. Consequently, she advocates a struggle for participation, political equality, and freedom as a strategy for emancipation or empowerment. Arendt could help feminists see that collective empowerment is made possible not by a shared identity (the target of poststructuralist critics) but by common action in the service of a particular worldly issue or common end. In other words, feminists would do well to appreciate the revolutionary quality and heritage of the feminist movement better, that is, its character as a set of practices of freedom.

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