scholarly journals Teorier om fred og harmoni: viden, magt og kontroversen om Kinas opstigning

Politik ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Marcus Kristensen ◽  
Ras Tind Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Peaceful Rise ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
Policy Ideas ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Science And Politics ◽  
Chinese School ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Analysis Of Knowledge

This article maps the emergence and development of Chinese discourses about China’s rise in international politics. It examines how the production of knowledge, particularly theories on international relations and grand strategy, develop in their travels between the scienti c and political as well as the international and national. Taking its point of departure in the sociology of science, the article sets out to understand the interplay between social, political, and intellectual conditions for knowledge production in today’s Interna- tional Relations (IR) research in China. Contrary to the conventional notion that Chinese social science is determined by political preferences, the paper argues 1) that the ideal of (pure) science and (dirty) politics as two separate spheres is di cult to sustain in the empirical analysis of knowledge production (in China and elsewhere) and 2) that more often than not important policy ideas and theories, such ‘Peaceful Rise’, the ‘Chinese School’ or ‘Harmonious World’ have emerged from a productive relationship between science and politics. e analysis of Chinese IR discourse shows that Chinese scholars and experts might play a more in uential role in the formulation of foreign policy concepts than usually assumed. 

Fragmenting and connecting? The diverging geometries and extents of IR’s interdisciplinary knowledge-relations

2020 ◽  
pp. 135406612092260
Author(s):  
Stephen Aris
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Bibliographic Coupling ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Interdisciplinary Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Practice ◽  
The Relationship

IR has long been concerned about its claim on disciplinary status. This includes concerns about its differentiation from Political Science and a divide between scholars who advocate a narrow disciplinary approach and others who conceive of IR as a pluri-disciplinary concept. Although these dilemmas revolve around its position vis-à-vis other disciplines, the vast majority of the recent disciplinary-sociology debates have focused on the extent of IR scholarship’s intradisciplinary fragmentation, along epistemological, topical, national, status and other lines. However, the sociology of science literature stresses that disciplines are the product of not only internal practice but also their knowledge relations to and differentiation from other disciplines. In short, intradisciplinary fragmentation cannot be considered as detached from a discipline’s relations to other disciplines – and, by extension, the differentiated knowledge relationships held by distinct intradisciplinary fragments to other disciplines. Taking this into account, this article uses bibliometric analysis of journals as a proxy for analysing the relationship between IR’s intradisciplinary make-up and its interdisciplinary relations to eight cognate disciplines between 2013 and 2017. Three distinct modes of bibliometric analysis are operationalised to map three different aspects of interdisciplinary knowledge practice: (inter)disciplinary debates (direct citation), multidisciplinary knowledge bases (bibliographic coupling) and interdisciplinary knowledge production (co-citation). On this basis, the article asks, one, whether and how differences in the interdisciplinary knowledge relations practised by IR scholarship correlate with intra-IR lines of fragmentation. And two, what are the implications for how IR’s socio-intellectual composition is understood and its disciplinary status evaluated?

scholarly journals Standardizing and disseminating knowledge: the role of the OECD in global governance

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rianne Mahon ◽  
Stephen McBride
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
Policy Ideas ◽  
Policy Fields ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Impact

If ‘knowledge is power’, it is unsurprising that the production, legitimation, and application of social scientific knowledge, not least that which was designed to harness social organization to economic growth, is a potentially contentious process. Coping with, adapting to, or attempting to shape globalization has emerged as a central concern of policy-makers who are, therefore, interested in knowledge to assist their managerial activities. Thus, an organization that can create, synthesize, legitimate, and disseminate useful knowledge can play a significant role in the emerging global governance system. The OECD operates as one important site for the construction, standardization, and dissemination of transnational policy ideas. OECD staff conducts research and produces a range of background studies and reports, drawing on disciplinary knowledge (typically economics) supplemented by their ‘organizational discourses’. This paper probes the contested nature of knowledge production and attempts to evaluate the impact of the OECD’s efforts to produce globally applicable policy advice. Particular attention is paid to important initiatives in the labour market and social policy fields – the Jobs Study and Babies and Bosses.

A Man of Contention: Martin Plessner (1900–1973) and His Encounters with the Orient

Naharaim ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Levy
Keyword(s):  
Personal Life ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
Spatial Shift ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Science And Politics ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
Oriental Studies

AbstractThe case of German-Jewish orientalist Martin Meir Plessner (1900–1973) presents an opportunity to explore the transplant of Oriental Studies from Germany to Palestine/Israel in the wake of post-Saidian historiography of German Orientalism. Studying and teaching in Germany, the young Plessner’s encounter with the Orient, Arabs and Arabic was mainly a textual one. Following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, he immigrated to Palestine, transforming detached oriental scholarship into a physical encounter at the heart of the emerging Arab-Jewish conflict, on which Plessner held firm dovish-leftist views. This article examines how this spatial shift influenced Plessner’s personal political views; his scholarly and professional work; and above all, the link between the two. Science and politics, this article claims, continued to exist as two unchanging separate spheres for Plessner. Nevertheless, life in the Orient rendered collisions between the two worlds unavoidable, with ramifications on Plessner’s career and personal life. His refusal to let political considerations penetrate the professional sphere may be seen as an expression of his unwavering devotion to the German

scholarly journals Portuguese nursing: analysis of knowledge production and dissemination through institutional repositories

2015 ◽  
Vol IV Série (Nº 6) ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Leonel Preto ◽  
Matilde Martins ◽  
Manuel Brás ◽  
Maria Pimentel ◽  
Cayetano Fernández-Sola
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Analysis Of Knowledge

The Changing Ecology of Foreign Policy-Making in China: The Ascension and Demise of the Theory of “Peaceful Rise”

2007 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 291-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie S Glaser ◽  
Evan S Medeiros
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Peaceful Rise ◽  
Policy Ideas ◽  
Government Bureaucracy ◽  
Peaceful Development ◽  
China Today

AbstractChina's rapidly proliferating global interests and evolving political environment have begun to change the international and domestic context for its foreign policy-making. This article explores the changing inputs into and processes associated with foreign policy-making in China today. It does this by analysing the shifting fortunes of “peaceful rise,” one of the first new foreign policy concepts to be introduced under the Hu Jintao administration. The authors draw several implications from this narrow debate for understanding contemporary foreign policy-making in China. It provides an example of how new foreign policy ideas and strategies can come from outside the formal, central government bureaucracy, and underscores the growing relevance of think-tank analysts and university-based scholars. Finally, the authors argue that the Chinese leadership's decision to eschew “peaceful rise” in favour of “peaceful development” was fundamentally a question of terminology and thus preserved China's strategy of reassuring other nations.

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