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Futures, Events and excessive Learnings: review of Forsberg and Patomäki, Debating the war in Ukraine
In: Globalizations, Band 20, Heft 7, S. 1187-1194
ISSN: 1474-774X
A Post-Western Europe: Strange Identities in a Less Liberal World Order
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 75-88
ISSN: 1747-7093
AbstractDebates on "rising powers" and a possible end to the liberal international order mostly focus on two kinds of actors: the hegemon (the United States), privileged by the power distribution of yesteryear, and rising powers (notably China). Europe's curious position brings to light some intriguing dynamics of the emerging world order—nuances needed to capture a more differentiated future. This essay traces the threats and opportunities to Europe presented by the emerging order in four domains. In terms of overall power (polarity) and economics, far-reaching change registers but is rarely designated as threatening. In contrast, change regarding values (human rights and democracy especially) triggers more alarm. Finally, in the domain of institutions, change elicited a relative lack of concern prior to 2016, but worries have grown since then. For Europe, peaceful change primarily demands that rising powers rearticulate rather than confront classical Western values because, in contrast to the United States, there is little sense of loss in Europe in relation to the global structures of power and economics.
Krigens system og mulighederne for politik og (politik?)videnskab – Opposition ved Gorm Harstes disputats
In: Politica, Band 50, Heft 1
ISSN: 2246-042X
International Leadership After the Demise of the Last Superpower: System Structure and Stewardship
In: Chinese political science review, Band 2, Heft 4, S. 452-476
ISSN: 2365-4252
The theory act: Responsibility and exactitude as seen from securitization
In: International relations: the journal of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 121-127
ISSN: 1741-2862
Politics, security, theory
In: Security dialogue, Band 42, Heft 4-5, S. 465-480
ISSN: 1460-3640
This article outlines three ways of analysing the 'politics of securitization', emphasizing an often-overlooked form of politics practised through theory design. The structure and nature of a theory can have systematic political implications. Analysis of this 'politics of securitization' is distinct from both the study of political practices of securitization and explorations of competing concepts of politics among security theories. It means tracking what kinds of analysis the theory can produce and whether such analysis systematically impacts real-life political struggles. Securitization theory is found to 'act politically' through three structural features that systematically shape the political effects of using the theory. The article further discusses – on the basis of the preceding articles in the special issue – three emerging debates around securitization theory: ethics, transformations and post-Western analyses. The article finally suggests one possible way forward for securitization theory: a route built on first clarifying its concept of theory, then specifying more clearly the place of political theory and causal mechanisms in different parts of the analysis. The politics of securitization accordingly becomes sharpened. Instead of deducing the political quality of the theory from various empirical statements by its proponents, this approach zooms in on the very core of the theory: how does it structurally condition work done with it in systematically political ways?
Komparativ sekularisme – en forskningsdagsorden med konfliktmodererende potentiale
In: Politica, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 163-185
ISSN: 2246-042X
Velkommen til flertallets verden – den religiøse
In: Udenrigs, Heft 1, S. 8-18
ISSN: 1395-3818
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Towards a Political Sociology of Security Studies
In: Security dialogue, Band 41, Heft 6, S. 649-658
ISSN: 1460-3640
Endowed now with a convincing history of itself, security studies needs a sociological analysis of its workings. The 'post-Kuhnian sociology of science' in the Buzan & Hansen (2009) volume is too sociologically thin and offers a disembodied history of ideas, not a sociology of flesh-and-blood scholars. This article suggests how a sociology of security studies can be strung between the two poles of a sociology of international relations and theories of expertise. Special attention must be paid to the role of 'security theory' for policy analysis, as well as the variation over time and geographically in the institutional chains connecting academe and policy, especially the changing nature of think-tanks. The centre of analysis should be networks of scholars manoeuvring these cross-pressures and making research and other career choices. Through its focus on form, this approach can explain dominant styles of scholarship in the USA and Europe as ways of meeting contrasting demands from academic institutions and policy relevance. The article ends with an assessment of the prospects for security studies.
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In: Udenrigs, Heft 3, S. 6-23
ISSN: 1395-3818
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Towards a Political Sociology of Security Studies
In: Security dialogue, Band 41, Heft 6, S. 649-659
ISSN: 0967-0106
Waltz's Theory of Theory
In: International relations: the journal of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 201-222
ISSN: 1741-2862
Waltz's 1979 book, Theory of International Politics, is the most influential in the history of the discipline. It worked its effects to a large extent through raising the bar for what counted as theoretical work, in effect reshaping not only realism but rivals like liberalism and reflectivism. Yet, ironically, there has been little attention paid to Waltz's very explicit and original arguments about the nature of theory. This article explores and explicates Waltz's theory of theory. Central attention is paid to his definition of theory as `a picture, mentally formed' and to the radical anti-empiricism and anti-positivism of his position. Followers and critics alike have treated Waltzian neorealism as if it was at bottom a formal proposition about cause—effect relations. The extreme case of Waltz being so victorious in the discipline, and yet being so consistently misinterpreted on the question of theory, shows the power of a dominant philosophy of science in US IR, and thus the challenge facing any ambitious theorising. The article suggests a possible movement of fronts away from the `fourth debate' between rationalism and reflectivism towards one of theory against empiricism. To help this new agenda, the article introduces a key literature from the philosophy of science about the structure of theory, and particularly about the way even natural science uses theory very differently from the way IR's mainstream thinks it does — and much more like the way Waltz wants his theory to be used.
Krigens tre samtaler
In: Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 7-13
ISSN: 2159-9149
Securitizing Sectors?: Reply to Eriksson
In: Cooperation and conflict: journal of the Nordic International Studies Association, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 334-340
ISSN: 1460-3691