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124323
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2013.
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Written from a vantage point in between Security Studies, Political Theory, and Governance Studies, this article attempts to theorize the current mobilization of civil society for the purposes of "national security," "risk precaution," or "homeland resilience" as the emergence of a neo-republican form of security governance-a mode of governance more reliant on organicist means of social construction than on economic or individualist instruments of social control. We argue that if the discipline of International Relations (IR) wishes to understand the nature of this emerging security order, it needs to assume a more cross-disciplinary approach and to develop a much richer idea of republicanism as not only a political philosophy but also a practice of governance.
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This article responds to the debate on “The End of IR Theory?” that appeared in a recent volume of the European Journal of International Relations. It argues that the pronouncements about “theoretical peace” carry the subtext of “epistemic violence,” foreclosing the debate and the possibility of theoretic interventions emerging from the non-West—in this case, Africa. Elucidating how IR theory (IRT) has remained a parochial enterprise by the deliberate silencing of Africa, the article then finds pathways by which Africa can contribute to IRT. Using the metaphor of storytelling, it lists eight different ways in which Africa can tell new stories in IR.
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152716
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New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2014.
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xv, 247p.hbk
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Oxford International Relations in South Asia Series
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9780198095958
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| 059029 | 327.54051/FAN 059029 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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125196
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New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2014.
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xv, 247p.Hbk
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Oxford International Relations in South Asia Series (IRSA)
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9780198095958
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| 057486 | 327.54051/FAN 057486 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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162638
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Since the publication a decade ago of Acharya and Buzan’s seminal forum, ‘Why is there no non-Western IR theory?’, voluminous studies have attempted to ameliorate the Western parochialism of international relations (IR) studies. This trend includes a strong and increasing commitment among non-Western (in particular, Chinese) IR scholars to the development of ‘national schools’. However, Acharya and Buzan point out that non-Western IR theory-building enterprise ‘cannot be a conversation among the likeminded’. They add: the project ‘is more likely to fail if it does not draw in the broadest group of scholars, including those in the Western mainstream’. In a related vein, Peter Katzenstein writes that the diversity and heterogeneity of world politics cannot be captured by binary distinctions between Western and non-Western IR theory. Rather, our focus, he notes, should be on interactions between different types of knowledge. In short, we need a two-way ‘dialogue’ across ‘the West/non-West divide’ to transform the current Western-centric IR into a global discipline. A critical question, then, is how we can ensure such a dialogue without descending into a narcissistic turf war. This article tackles the how-question head-on in its discussions of the diverse kinds and properties of dialogue.
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156180
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125238
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Noida, Random House Publishers India Pvt Ltd, 2013.
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xxiv, 499p.Hbk
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9788184003703
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| 057494 | 327.73054/BAS 057494 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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145985
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Philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour’s work on actor-network theory (ANT), science and technology studies (STS), and the politics of nature, has made a substantial impact upon the social sciences, and more recently, International Relations (IR). This interview records Latour’s first direct ‘encounter’ with IR, and explores concepts and topics as varied as sovereignty, the State of Nature, globality and spheres, the thought of Carl Schmitt, war and universalism, Gaia and climate politics, and the creation of publics, secrecy, and politics as a mode of existence. It provides new insight into Latour’s thinking and philosophy, while opening new avenues of research for IR scholars to pursue in the future.
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The future of foreign policy think tanks should involve acting as a training ground for the next generation of international affairs professionals. Internships are widely recognized as a way of improving young people’s skills and employment prospects. A case study of the Australian Institute of International Affairs’ (AIIA’s) internship program shows how foreign policy institutes can form a bridge between the academic grounding that universities provide and the rigours and requirements of a career in international affairs. Survey results from more than 100 interns showed an overwhelmingly positive reaction to their internship experience, with over 98 percent recommending the program. A range of learning outcomes and career benefits were reported. Foreign policy institutes wishing to contribute to career development should consider introducing internship programs that include goal setting, high-quality supervision, expert training, and career advice. They can help build the future of the field one internship at a time.
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125069
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New Delhi, Lancer Publishers & distributors, 2012.
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326p.Hbk
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9781935501329
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| 057489 | 327.51/ADH 057489 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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148109
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has too declared that “these shadows of hesitance between the twin nations should be done away through the C’s of candor and convergence.” The American President has too termed the India-US “bilaterals” as the “defining partnership of the century”. It’s a strain of Complex Interdependence which is associated with the “bilateral singularity” of the India-US tryst with a Manifest Destiny argument. Both the nations, in accordance with the IR observers, have lived up to the “Altercating” and a constructivist world view, that the two states of India and America will learn and are being already educated with each other’s culture, Diaspora and the intertwining of the strategic, defense and geo economic considerations prevalent in the world polity.
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124406
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2013.
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Chinese scholars are debating whether, and how, to innovate a Chinese theory of International Relations (IR). This article examines the driving forces behind this theoretical debate. It challenges the commonsensical link between external events in the subject matter (i.r.) and theorizing (IR), which suggests that the innovation of a Chinese IR theory is a natural product of China's geopolitical rise, its growing political ambitions, and discontent with Western hegemony. We propose instead a sociological approach to intellectual innovation which opens the black box of knowledge production, and argue that theoretical innovation, in China and elsewhere, is best understood as an interplay between internal and external layers. The internal academic context comprises intellectuals pursuing prominence, with each intellectual trying to carve out a maximally distinct position in order to receive attention from their peers-theorizing a Chinese IR theory being one important way of doing this. The external layer-which ranges from power politics to sociopolitical developments-affects this process indirectly by providing more research funds and autonomy to the more immediate institutional environment where control over rewards such as research funds, promotion, and publications affects what kind of work is done, with theorizing being increasingly rewarded.
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107980
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2011.
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Dissidence in IR, as in any other social field, reflects both an identity and a practice of opposition to the system. While the fact of dissidence is largely manifested in its very discursive occurrence, this article attempts to go beyond the performative nature of dissidence in order to identify the collective, common ground that unites self-acclaimed dissident scholars, to understand whether they form an objectively constituted social group, and to what extent they encompass dissidence in the field. Based on the analysis of a survey sent to American IR academics, this article shows that contemporary dissidence in American IR is structured not only by its opposition to mainstream IR, but also by internal divisions between the first generation of now established Critical dissidents, and an emerging group of Constructivist scholars who do not claim, but do practice, a clearly dissident and more marginalized scholarship.
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In this article, I engage with the normative foundations of David Mitrany’s international political theory. My aim is to show that there is more to be found in Mitrany’s approach to international organization than the technocratic problem-solving often associated with his name today. To pinpoint the essence of Mitrany’s normative thought, I introduce the term ‘functional cosmopolitanism’. This variety of cosmopolitan theorizing starts from the equality of individual needs (not from rights or obligations), suggesting that transnational institutions, rather than states, should cater to these needs. An important aim of this ‘functional devolution’ is to limit and reconfigure public power, thus countering the threat of an ever more powerful nationstate. Mitrany’s proposal for introducing a functional dimension into the political system can be interpreted as a ‘thin’ cosmopolitanism, designed to free citizens from war and oppressive concentrations of political power, but vague in its ideas about individual political engagement.
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110766
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2011.
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IR's dominant theoretical and methodological approaches are, to varying degrees, compliance oriented. IR needs a theory of resistance if it is to survive its current methodological and ethical crisis. Resistance, read from a broadly Foucaultian perspective, is a process in which hidden, small-scale and marginal agencies have an impact on power, on norms, civil society, the state and the 'international'. This may be in the form of individual or grass-roots critical agency not coordinated or mobilized on a large scale but still globally connected. Such agency is often discursive and aimed at peaceful change and transformation. Through such critical agency a post-colonial civil society has emerged, which is transversal, transnational, fragmented, but may be constitutive of new, hybrid and post-liberal forms of peace.
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In this article we discuss the potential of observational and participatory filmmaking methods to both explore and represent a research subject through a documentary film. We position our project ‘British Born Chinese’ about the experiences of the second generation of Chinese migrants in relation to other recent audio-visual interventions in IR, and present our methodological approach of observational and dialogical engagement with participants and the ethics of representation related to it. In doing this, we explore the potential of audio-visual research to go beyond identity-based forms of inquiries concerning, in particular, migrant and diasporic experiences. Our aim is to develop a situated and contextualised understanding of how and under what conditions individuals resort to racialised forms of belonging. We consider the promise and limitations of observational filmmaking to depart from the structures of representation to evoke alternative solidarities around vulnerability.
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148114
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The disintegration of USSR was an important incident in international politics; it changed the structure of international relations in the 1990s. This dramatic event also changed the scenario of the international politics at the global level. It was this event that ended the system of Cold War military blocs and the bipolar world order in international relations, which had created rivalry and competition between the two blocs. After that, the former USSR’s allies, especially the Third World countries, reoriented their policies to suit the Western model of globalization led by the US.
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Some dismiss the recent EU Global Strategy as a “triumph of hope over experience”, an impracticable and therefore ultimately irrelevant statement; others are enthusiastic about what they see as perseverance and renewed ambition in the face of the present crisis. Although the 2016 Strategy appears more modest than its 2003 predecessor in operational terms, the range of deliberations that fed into it and the quality of the document itself demonstrate a greater maturity of reflection on foreign policy. A critical reading of the document shows that concepts such as normative power and differentiated inclusion of neighbours in the EU’s system of governance have all but disappeared. The emerging EU identity appears to be debilitated by the centrifugal processes of internal contestation and a drastically downsized claim for external power projection. An alternative plan for action will have to deal with the Union’s vulnerabilities and carve out a role that is distinct, yet in line with this new self-understanding.
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166886
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101606
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2010.
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I would like to thank Fiona Adamson, Craig Calhoun, Markus Kornprobst, Spike Peterson, Anca Simionca, Ann Snitow, Joey Sprague, Sherrill Stroschein, Christine Sylvester, and Marysia Zalewski for their engagements with the ideas presented here. I would also like to thank the referees and the editors of the journal for their constructive suggestions. A previous version of the paper was presented to the 49th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 2008. A Visiting Fellow appointment at the Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University, allowed me the space for thought to finalize this article.
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