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American University
2014-2023
Sonoma State University
2012
Office of International Affairs
2007
Columbia University
1998-1999
While scholars of International Relations and comparative politics have usually treated rhetoric as epiphenomenal, one strand constructivism has recently returned to the heart political analysis, especially through mechanism persuasion. We too maintain that is central processes outcomes, but we argue persuasion theoretically methodologically problematic. aver rhetoric's role may be more usefully conceptualized in context coercion, advance a stylized model illustrates how rhetorical coercion...
In recent years, paradigmatic debates in International Relations (IR) have focused on questions of epistemology and methodology. While important their own right, these differences obscured the basic divide discipline between substantialism, which takes entities as primitives, relationalism, processes social transaction building blocks theory. We argue that while both approaches can be fruitful, theories relations are better suited to address certain questions, most notably those involving...
Reviewed by: The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations: Philosophy Science and its Implications for the Study World Politics Daniel McArthur (bio) Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Politics. New York: Routledge, 2011. 288 pp. ISBN13: 978-0-415-77627-1. $35.00 (pbk.) Book reviews this journal usually proceed by considering value book question Dewey scholarship. In case I would rather say that is interest to scholars. Jackson’s general project heavily informed Dewey’s pluralistic brand...
In the international system, every sovereign state is formally equal, but when it comes to exercising influence in organizations, some appear be more equal than others. How does such hierarchy persist under conditions of formal equality? Rejecting traditional materialist explanations that reduce interstate military and economic capacity different states, author offers an alternative account grounded intense fieldwork a detailed engagement with everyday social practices diplomats at NATO...
American scholars routinely characterize the study of international relations as divided between various Kuhnian “paradigms” or Lakatosian “research programmes.” Although most have abandoned Kuhn's account scientific continuity and change, many utilize criteria to assess “progressive” “degenerative” character theories approaches in field. We argue that neither specific areas inquiry (such “democratic peace”) nor broader world politics realism, liberalism, constructivism) deserve label As an...
Concerns about the end of International Relations theory pivot around at least three different issues: fading ‘paradigm wars’ associated with 1990s and early 2000s; general lack any sort ‘great debate’ sufficient to occupy attention large portions field; claims vibrancy middle-range theorizing. None these are terribly helpful when it comes assessing health theory. We argue that international involves scientific ontologies world politics: topographies entities, processes, mechanisms, how they...
Are states people too? Yes , they are. In this I agree with Alexander Wendt's contention that the state is an ‘emergent phenomenon which cannot be reduced to individuals’, although disagree methodology (scientific realist abduction) he uses make his argument and consequent implication a ‘real’ (as opposed, presumably, ‘fictitious’) thing. Indeed, would rather invert claim are too, too inasmuch as both social actors – entities in name of actions performed exercising agency delimited contexts....
Abstract While the recent proliferation in philosophical discussions International Relations indicates a welcome increase discipline’s conceptual sophistication, central issue has gone relatively unremarked: question of how to understand relationship between scholarly observers and their observed objects. This classical problem number implications for conduct inquiry discipline, raises particular challenges status knowledge-claims advanced by constructivists. I clarify these issues...
Even in the North American and European context, relationalism comes many flavours. We identify common features of relational approaches, including varieties practice theory, pragmatism network analysis. also key disagreements within relationalism, such as relative explanatory importance positional process-oriented Our discussion reveals problems that come from associating solely with other clusters international-relations constructivism. It allows us to construct a typology major frameworks...
What is 'relational theorizing' in International Relations and what can it offer? This article introduces a thematic section that responds to these questions by showing two things. First, relational theorizing not doctrine or method, but set of analyses begin with relations rather than the putative essences constitutively autonomous actors. Second, has emerged from different geo-linguistic traditions, approach (IR) offer language space for increased productive engagement beyond Anglophone...
Editor's Note:J. Samuel Barkin's International Studies Review article "Realist Constructivism" (2003) makes the important point that opposition between realist and constructivist schools of thought in international relations (IR) may not be as clear-cut is commonly supposed. In doing so, he focuses on how certain classical notions are compatible with sensibilities about role norms other intersubjective factors producing social political outcomes. effect, Barkin proposes a fusion elements...
In his article “Realist Constructivism,”Barkin (2003:338) described constructivism as a cluster of research methods and analytical tools: “set assumptions about how to study world politics” rather than politics work.” As such, is subject E.H. Carr's dialectic between realism utopianism. Barkin also argued that the problem with contemporary it has been dominated by liberalism idealism; would therefore benefit from healthy infusion realism. Much Barkin's essay aimed at showing mainstream is,...
Must international studies be a science? No. By which I mean: the investigation of cross-boundary-encounter aspect(s) things need not organised so as to categorically privilege epistemic ways knowing (even though there is multiplicity such ways, merely diversity insufficient). Other flavours are equally valuable, and should celebrated in their distinctness, rather than being forcibly assimilated impersonal, factual knowing-that. That previous paragraph will likely make little sense...
In 1959, Arnold Wolfers published an essay entitled ‘The Actors World Politics’ in which he suggested that the importance of state as actor, although undeniable, needed to be submitted ‘empirical analysis’ and clearer theorisation if its precise role was ascertained. Unfortunately, almost no one seems have heeded his advice, question about what we might call person-hood virtually vanished from agenda mainstream International Relations (IR) theory. Realists, neorealists, neoliberal...
Iver Neumann's paper on speech-writing practices in the Norwegian foreign ministry, besides presenting a fascinating glimpse of side official political action that we scholars don't often see, implicitly raises broader methodological question: can ethnographic techniques tell us distinctive things about world politics? What is benefit pursuing an approach to IR research? To begin with, should distinguish between methods and ethnography as form interpretive methodology. Methods are for...