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Science, technology, and art in international relations : origins and prospects / J.P. Singh -- A role for phenomenology in ir scholarship / Alena Drieschova -- How to discomfort a worldview? : social sciences, surveillance technologies, and defamiliarization / Rocco Bellanova and Ann Rudinow Saetnan -- World-viewing as world-making : feminist technoscience, international relations, and the aesthetics of the anthropocene / Cara Daggett -- Emerging science and technologies : diplomacy, security, and governance / Margaret E. Kosal -- Constructed "cyber" realities & international relations theory / Ben Wagner -- Constructing an inventive order of rights : the geopolitics of island-building in transnational waters / Venilla Rajaguru -- IR's constitutive absence and the promise of STAIR / Maximilian Mayer -- "The heart is a pump. Or is it?" : the politics of biomedicine, the objectivity of science, and the way we know the world / Christina Hellmich -- Thinking through the science, technology, and art of medicine : an agenda for international relations / Alison Howell -- Oceanic artscapes and international relations / Camellia Webb-Gannon -- From the globe to the germ, and back / Michele Acuto -- Science in the international political economy / David J Hornsby -- Creativity as a worldview : power in collaborative practices / Willow Williamson -- Reflexivity and political analysis : if everything is socially constructed, how can we construct theories? / Peter M. Haas -- Art and agency : alternative spaces for subaltern voices / Mónica Trujillo-López -- Cookbooks, politics, and culture / Ilan Zvi Baron -- Human/nonhuman assemblages in STAIR : understanding distributed agency in international relations / Kathleen P. J. Brennan -- Resistance to a worldview / Ritu Mathur.

A review essay on a book by Heikki Patomaki, The Political Economy of Global Security: War, Future Crises and Changes in Global Governance (London & New York: Routledge, 2008).

In recent decades, the discipline of International Relations (IR) has experienced both dramatic institutional growth and unprecedented intellectual enrichment. And yet, unlike neighbouring disciplines such as Geography, Sociology, History and Comparative Literature, it has still not generated any 'big ideas' that have impacted across the human sciences. Why is this? And what can be done about it? This article provides an answer in three steps. First, it traces the problem to IR's enduring definition as a subfield of Political Science. Second, it argues that IR should be re-grounded in its own disciplinary problematique: the consequences of (societal) multiplicity. And finally, it shows how this re-grounding unlocks the transdisciplinary potential of IR. Specifically, 'uneven and combined development' provides an example of an IR 'big idea' that could travel to other disciplines: for by operationalizing the consequences of multiplicity, it reveals the causal and constitutive significance of 'the international' for the social world as a whole.

Following widespread use in political marketing and polling, focus groups are slowly gaining recognition as a useful and legitimate method in political science. Focus groups can, however, be far more than just a secondary qualitative method to primary quantitative public opinion research: they can be used to study the micro-level process of social construction. The process in which key sub-groups collectively contest and justify the actions of elite political actors via shared values is one way to study how legitimacy is conferred. This article therefore argues that focus groups can be particularly useful for research that examines everyday narratives in world politics.

Abstract: This article maps the participation of women in Brazilian scientific production in the areas of Political Science and International Relations, from 2006 to 2016. To do so, six indicators were created, to measure women's participation in the production of master's dissertations, doctoral theses and scientific papers, as well as their participation as faculty members of graduate programs and their presence on editorial boards of important Brazilian Journals in these fields. The results revealed that, despite an increasing participation of women in recent years, the space they occupy is still underrepresented, especially when considering strategic positions related to education and research.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: The Dawn of the Global Event Horizon -- Part I: International Security -- One: Tools of the Trade (1): Understanding War and Peace from Three Perspectives -- Two: Tools of the Trade (2): Game Theory -- Three: World War I -- Four: The Cold War and After -- Five: The American Invasion of Iraq in 2003 -- Resources -- Part II: The Global Economy -- Six: Tools of the Trade: Comparative Case Strategy and Hegemonic Stability Theory -- Seven: Three Views of Economics and Politics -- Eight: Paradigmatic Legacies: Variations in Capitalism -- Nine: The International Economic Order and the Question of Convergence -- Resources

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Notes -- Part I -- 1 Westphalia and Its Influence on Theory -- Westphalia -- The World Order According to Kissinger -- The 'Real' World, the World of Realism, and Beyond -- Notes -- 2 The System Under Strain: New World Visions Emerge -- The World View of the Soviet Union -- The Emergence of China -- Notes -- 3 Regional Searches for Thoughtful Value -- The Bold Move of the Young Turks -- Egypt and Nasser -- The Pan-Arab Project -- The Question of Islam -- The Six Day War -- The Role of the United Nations -- Israel and a Policy of Iron towards the Region -- Projection of State Power for a Partial Nation -- The 'One Zambia One Nation' of Kenneth Kaunda -- Three Worlds -- State, Nation - Who Leads What towards Nationalism and Internationalism? -- Notes -- 4 Violence, Memories of Violence and Efforts at Solidarity and Union -- Gandhi's Quest for an Independent State -- Nehru and Non-Alignment -- Indian IR -- China, Antiquity and Opportunistic Antiquity -- The Undarkening Continent -- The Redarkening Continent? -- Theory from Africa -- Notes -- Part II -- 5 The Revenge of the Post-Secular -- The Sunni and Shia Split -- Shari'ati and Iran -- Shari'ati and the New Islam -- The Clash of Civilizations: From Foucault to Huntington -- Resacralization and the Post-Secular -- What Has Iran Done? -- Notes -- 6 New Wars, New States, and New States of Old Thought -- How We Got There and What They Thought of Us When We Did -- Iraq and Its Rise and Fall -- Emerging from the Desert Sands -- The Siege -- The Doctrine of Wahhab -- Jihad -- The Taleban as Osama Found Them -- The Taleban If Osama Had Not Found Them -- The International Foundation -- The Caliphate -- Abulof and the Securitization of Israel -- Sri Lanka and the Tamils -- Commanding Discourse and the Principle of Coercion -- Notes

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Origins of States-systems -- 1. Westphalian Sovereignty Comes to the Arab World -- 2. Regulation, Surveillance, and State Formation -- 3. Commercial Interests and Elite Bargains -- 4. Domestic Conflict and Regime Maintenance -- Conclusion: Pan-Arabism, Postimperial Orders, and International Norms -- Notes -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. International Relations: A Strategic-Choice Approach -- Chapter Two. Actors and Preferences in International Relations -- Chapter Three. The Strategic Setting of Choices: Signaling, Commitment, and Negotiation in International Politics -- Chapter Four. Institutions as Constraints on Strategic Choice -- Chapter Five. The Governance Problem in International Relations -- Chapter Six. Evolution, Choice, and International Change -- Chapter Seven. The Limits of Strategic Choice: Constrained Rationality and Incomplete Explanation -- References -- About the Authors -- Name Index -- General Index

Building on the recent initiative to truly globalize the field of international relations, this book provides an innovative interrogation of regionalism. The book applies a globalizing framework to the study of regional worlds in order to move beyond the traditional conception of regionalism, which views regions as competing blocs dominated by great powers. Bringing together a wide range of case studies, the book shows that regions are instead dynamic configurations of social and political identities in which a variety of actors, including the less powerful, interact and partake in regionalization processes and have done so through the centuries

Southeast Asia's strategic location at major sea-lanes of communication, its previous role as a theatre of super power rivalries, its neighbourhood to China & India, its increasing economic prosperity & its inherent political instability have secured the region unrelenting attention of political scientists. Yet, the region is politically, economically & culturally highly diverse & fragmented. This diversity is also reflected in research on the politics of the region. Southeast Asian politics -- more than any other Asian sub-region -- thus defies sweeping generalizations about the state of the art. However, a paper committed to identify new research trends can not do justice to the diverging research agendas in the region's different countries. It must search for common themes which are relevant for understanding the political dynamics of the region & at the same time enrich the general discourses of the discipline. While this amounts to the squaring of the circle, the following sections nevertheless try to pinpoint where political scientists have made innovative contributions & where lacunae exist. It starts with a few general observations on recent trends in the study of Southeast Asian politics & then proceeds to international relations & comparative politics, two major sub-disciplines of political science. It focuses, albeit not exclusively, on regionalism & democratization as the dominant themes in the post-Cold War period. The paper concludes with a few proposals to improve the institutional context of (German) political scientists working on Southeast Asia. References. Adapted from the source document.

"This book provides an introduction to positivist-pluralist theories of international relations (IR) which emerged during the early-and mid-1950's along with Marxist political economics and non-Marxist economic theories of IR. This book is an in-depth critical study texts and literature which highlight IR's methodological pluralism even after it gained maturity. It examines how pluralist political status-quo and radical economic criticism coexist in discrete areas of the discipline. The book provides insights into key positivist liberal-pluralist theories, namely decision-making approaches, and theories of integration, regionalism, interdependence, and regime. It discusses the four political economic-economist and critical theories of Marxism, dependency, world systems, and international political economy. The book, as an advanced supplementary reader, will be of great interest to researchers and students of international relations, history, law and the multidisciplinary social scientific field of political economy"--