State Capacity, Regime Type, and Sustaining the Peace after Civil War
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 43, Heft 6, S. 967-993
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In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 43, Heft 6, S. 967-993
ISSN: 1547-7444
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 43, Heft 6, S. 941-966
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In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 43, Heft 6, S. 994-1018
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In: International feminist journal of politics, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 71-85
ISSN: 1468-4470
In: International feminist journal of politics, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 311-326
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In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 133-150
ISSN: 1477-9021
Recent breakthroughs in neuroscience have led to increasing concern about its uses in warfare. This article challenges the primacy of dual-use frameworks for posing ethical questions concerning the role of neuroscience in national security. It brings together three fields – critical war studies, bio-ethics, and the history of medicine – to argue that such frameworks too starkly divide 'good' and 'bad' military uses of neurotechnology, thus focusing on the degradation of human capacities without sufficiently accounting for human enhancement and soldier rehabilitation. It illustrates this through the emergence of diagnoses of Traumatic Brain Injury and Polytrauma in the context of post-9/11 counterinsurgency wars. The article proposes an alternative approach, highlighting the historical co-production and homology of modern war and medicine so as to grapple with how war shapes neuroscience, but also how neuroscience shapes war. The article suggests new routes for thinking through the connections between war, society, science, and technology, proposing that we cease analysis that assumes any fundamental separation between military and civilian life.
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 156-174
ISSN: 1547-7444
In: International feminist journal of politics, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 137-152
ISSN: 1468-4470
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 129-155
ISSN: 1547-7444
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 1-25
ISSN: 1547-7444
In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 174-192
ISSN: 1477-9021
Why do individuals sacrifice themselves to defend a nation-state? This article emphasises the link between emotion and culture by investigating the affective reproduction of culture in world politics. Building on the tradition of Émile Durkheim, it introduces the concept of emotion culture to IR. Emotion cultures are understood as the culture-specific complex of emotion vocabularies, feeling rules, and beliefs about emotions and their appropriate expression that facilitates the cultural construction of political communities, such as the nation-state. It is argued that emotions provide a socio-psychological mechanism by which culture moves individuals to defend a nation-state, especially in times of war. By emotionally investing in the cultural structure of a nation-state, the individual aligns him/herself with a powerful cultural script, which then dominates over other available scripts. The argument is empirically illustrated by the case of the so-called Japanese kamikaze pilots.
In: Journal of international political theory: JIPT, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 18-36
ISSN: 1755-1722
This study explores conceptual conflicts embedded in the thematic grounding of classical realism. To establish conditions of consistent normality in human political behaviour for realist analysis, the rhetoric of originary political wisdom usually ties its claims, as a research framework, to myth and enlightenment. Because Thucydides, Machiavelli or Hobbes articulated the premises of political realist analysis in the contexts of state formation, anarchic regional politics and perpetual war, these first figures of political authority seem to have set terms of geopolitical analysis that erase context, arrest temporality and homogenise space by pointing analysis back to classical events, thinkers and struggles in mythic terms. Critical theorists ask if such mythic styles of reasoning are a credible approach, even though many accept such modes of analysis. Consequently, this study explores how myth affects political realist studies to question how statecraft perpetuates itself on reason, myth and their contradictions.
In: Journal of international political theory: JIPT, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 100-121
ISSN: 1755-1722
This article considers convergence between classical realism and critical theory in relation to pressing political problems. It argues that the spirit of both traditions can help develop critical reflection on the state as an agent of change. I suggest that too much recent critical theorization has avoided the state in its attention to social movements, but that a critical concept of state leadership is now required to address global threats and challenges. The article rehearses this critical concept in three stages. It considers, first, how the concept of national interest drives statecraft in the authorship of Hans Morgenthau and how complex this concept is both in its own terms and with regard to the political effects of the nuclear revolution. It develops, second, a multi-layered concept of responsibility as the guiding concept of statecraft in a world of increasingly incompatible demands. It argues, third, that these concepts of national interest and responsibility need to be aligned with global imperatives so that a greater marriage between the global and the national is possible. I conclude that it is the task of contemporary critical thought to address this present through a reimagined political realism.
In: International feminist journal of politics, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 634-636
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In: International feminist journal of politics, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 623-625
ISSN: 1468-4470