Constructivism's Micro-Foundations: Aspirations, Social Identity Theory, and Russia's National Interests
In: APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper
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In: APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
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In: Perspectives on politics, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 99-102
ISSN: 1541-0986
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia.By James C. Scott. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 464p. $35.00.The book under discussion is James C. Scott's latest contribution to the study of agrarian politics, culture, and society, and to the ways that marginalized communities evade or resist projects of state authority. The book offers a synoptic history of Upland Southeast Asia, a 2.5 million–kilometer region of hill country spanning Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, and China. It offers a kind of "area study." It also builds on Scott's earlier work on "hidden transcripts" of subaltern groups and on "seeing like a state." The book raises many important theoretical questions about research methods and social inquiry, the relationship between political science and anthropology, the nature of states, and of modernity more generally. The book is also deeply relevant to problems of "state-building" and "failed states" in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia. As Scott writes, "The huge literature on state-making, contemporary and historic, pays virtually no attention to its obverse: the history of deliberate and reactive statelessness. This is the history of those who got away, and state-making cannot be understood apart from it. This is also what makes it an anarchist history" (p. x).In this symposium, I have invited a number of prominent political and social scientists to comment on the book, its historical narrative, and its broader theoretical implications for thinking about power, state failure, state-building, and foreign policy. How does the book shed light on the limits of states and the modes of resistance to state authority? Are there limits, theoretical and normative, to this "anarchist" understanding of governance and the "art of being governed"?—Jeffrey C. Isaac, Editor
In: APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
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In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 99-103
ISSN: 1537-5927
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In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 45-59
ISSN: 1747-7093
AbstractWhile Russian leaders are clearly dissatisfied with the United States and the European Union, they are not inherently opposed to a liberal world order. The question of Russia's desire to change a liberal international order hangs on the type of liberalism embedded in that order. Despite some calls from within for it to create a new, post-liberal order premised on conservative nationalism and geopolitics, Russia is unlikely to fare well in such a world.
In: Communist and post-communist studies, Band 47, Heft 3-4, S. 281-290
ISSN: 0967-067X
What determined Russia's national interests and grand strategy in the first decade after the Cold War? This article uses aspirational constructivism, which combines social psychology with constructivism, to answer this question. Central to aspirational constructivism are the roles that the past self and in-groups, and their perceived effectiveness play in the selection of a national identity and the definition of national interests. This article explains why Russian political elites settled on a statist national identity that focused on retaining Russia's historical status as a Western great power and hegemon in the former Soviet Union and in engaging the country in bounded status competition with the United States.
In: Communist and post-communist studies: an international interdisciplinary journal, Band 47, Heft 3, S. 281-290
ISSN: 0967-067X
In: Communist and post-communist studies: an international interdisciplinary journal, Band 47, Heft 3-4, S. 281-290
ISSN: 0967-067X
World Affairs Online