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Should AI stay or should AI go? First strike incentives & deterrence stability
In: Australian journal of international affairs: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Band 78, Heft 2, S. 154-163
ISSN: 1465-332X
'No one around to shut the dead eyes of the human race': Sartre, Aron, and the limits of existentialism in the Nuclear Age
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 49, Heft 5, S. 795-812
ISSN: 1469-9044
AbstractThe Nuclear Age is said to be defined by the notion of existential threat. The ability to destroy human societies in their entirety with a single class of weaponry raises profound questions about human existence. It even gives us a new form of species extinction – 'thermonuclear omnicide'. Unsurprisingly, existentialism was a philosophy that found its feet in the shadow of the bomb. This article explores the possibilities and limits of an existentialist approach to nuclear dangers. It contrasts the views of two figures central to early existentialism: Jean-Paul Sartre and Raymond Aron. Sartre responded to the existential threat of nuclear war with moral outrage about the 'unreality' of the Cold War politics driving the arms race and an existentialist call to reject militaristic social norms. Aron, a key figure in early IR realism, famously rejected existentialism and turned instead to outlining norms for an international society that might better restrain nuclear-armed decision-makers. Bringing Sartre's and Aron's post-Second World War discussions into the new century, this article argues that the ongoing, and even growing, threats posed by nuclear weapons highlight the limits of Sartre's approach as a guide to authentic existence in modern life. Instead, it supports Aron's more conservative approach but also draws on Existentialism to extend it, strengthening the nuclear taboo for the sake of human survival as a persistent but urgent political project. At a moment in IR when scholars and other analysts are once again critiquing the fragile norms of global order and speculating about the dawn of a 'Third Nuclear Age', theoretical reflection on the politics of existential threats and the hard choices they entail remain indispensable aspects of IR's theoretical toolkit. While Sartre and other existentialists argued convincingly that existence precedes essence, Aron reminds us that survival remains a precondition for both.
Interpreting great power rights in international society: Debating China's right to a sphere of influence
In: Journal of international political theory: JIPT, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 210-230
ISSN: 1755-1722
The special rights and responsibilities of the great powers have traditionally been treated as a key component – even a primary institution – of international society in the English School literature. Recent interpretivist work has focused on the meanings of special responsibilities in contemporary international society with far less scholarly attention being given to the corollary of this – special rights. This article uses an interpretivist approach to attempt to uncover what recent debates over China's right or otherwise to a sphere of influence in East Asia tells us about understandings of great power rights in contemporary international society. The argument advanced is that if Beijing's right to a sphere of influence is successfully rejected by the rest of international society without repudiating its status as a great power more broadly, China will indeed be a great power without historical precedent.
Interpreting great power rights in international society: Debating China's right to a sphere of influence
The special rights and responsibilities of the great powers have traditionally been treated as a key component – even a primary institution – of international society in the English School literature. Recent interpretivist work has focused on the meanings of special responsibilities in contemporary international society with far less scholarly attention being given to the corollary of this – special rights. This article uses an interpretivist approach to attempt to uncover what recent debates over China's right or otherwise to a sphere of influence in East Asia tells us about understandings of great power rights in contemporary international society. The argument advanced is that if Beijing's right to a sphere of influence is successfully rejected by the rest of international society without repudiating its status as a great power more broadly, China will indeed be a great power without historical precedent.
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Regionalism and Great Power Management in the Asia–Pacific: Complementary or Competing Forces?
In: Asian studies review, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 61-78
ISSN: 1467-8403
How the next nuclear arms race will be different from the last one
In: Bulletin of the atomic scientists, Band 75, Heft 1, S. 36-43
ISSN: 1938-3282
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy January to June 2017
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 63, Heft 4, S. 610-623
ISSN: 1467-8497
The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World
In: The RUSI journal: publication of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, Band 162, Heft 4, S. 68-69
ISSN: 1744-0378
Book Review: Maximilian Terhalle, The Transition of Global Order: Legitimacy and Contestation
In: Political studies review, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 287-287
ISSN: 1478-9302
Polarity Analysis and Collective Perceptions of Power: The Need for a New Approach
In: Journal of global security studies, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 2-17
ISSN: 2057-3189
Great power management and ambiguous order in nineteenth-century international society
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 367-388
ISSN: 0260-2105
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Polarity analysis and collective perceptions of power: the need for a new approach
In: Journal of global security studies, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 2-17
ISSN: 2057-3170
World Affairs Online
Great power management and ambiguous order in nineteenth-century international society
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 367-388
ISSN: 1469-9044
AbstractThis article considers what the nineteenth century can tell us about the nature of great power management under conditions of ambiguity in relation to the holders of great power status. It charts the development of an institutionalised role for the great powers as managers of international society but with a specific focus on the mutual recognition, and conferral, of status. Such a focus highlights the changing, and sometimes competing, perceptions of not only which states should be thought of as great powers, but also therefore whether the power structure of international society remained multipolar or shifted towards bipolarity or even unipolarity. The article argues that a 'golden age' of great power management existed during a period in which perceptions of great power status were in fact more fluid than the standard literature accounts for. This means that predictions surrounding the imminent demise of the social institution of great power management under an increasingly ambiguous interstate order today may well be misplaced.
The Australian2016 Defence White Paper, great-power rivalry and a 'rules-based order': an imagined correspondence between Carr, Bull and Bell
In: Australian journal of international affairs: journal of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Band 70, Heft 5, S. 441-452
ISSN: 1465-332X