end of the decade that emergent fields of comparative politics and international politics were to part company in their preferred systemic formulations. In comparative politics the structural-functional orientation popularized by Gabriel Almond prevailed as the convenient tool for investigating not just governments but anything political. In principle all political systems were subject to comparison because they all, regardless of form, share certain distinctively political functions. In practice this meant comparison of diverse systems nonetheless sharing
This book brings together thirteen of Nicholas Greenwood Onuf’s previously published yet rarely cited essays. They address topics that Onuf, a celebrated international theorist, has puzzled over for decades, prompting him to develop a distinctive perspective on international theory as social theory. Among these topics are the problem of materiality in social construction, epochal change in the modern world and the power of language.
Building on the work of giants, from Aristotle and Cicero, Hume and Kant, to Derrida and Foucault, and drawing on diverse contemporary theorists, including Seyla Benhabib, James Der Derian, Johan Galtung, Morton Kaplan, Joseph Nye, James Rosenau, Elaine Scarry and Kenneth Waltz, the book ranges over the margins of the field and settles on issues that have never been put to rest.
Introduction There are a number of levers which affect a state’s ability to achieve its foreign policy objectives. These include: economic and trade power; defence capability; diplomatic resource and skill; soft power, including cultural clout; and overseas development policy. Any serious foreign policy strategy is informed by an assessment of the state’s capacity in these areas and the effective deployment of its comparative strengths. Significantly, each of these tools is reliant, to varying degrees, on a functional system of international law. While the
187 11 International initiatives Social audit and public reporting can be effective as part of a ‘sandwich’ strategy – when an organisation being subjected to transparency is forced to be more open about its performance to service users while at the same time being held to account by a governmental authority overseeing it. But if the organisation being subjected to transparency is government itself then who can apply the ‘downward’ pressure? If the constitutional separation of powers has ceased to function due to high-level corruption, how can government
69 FIVE International interventions While law and policy on abortion is formed at the national level and access should be provided by the state, there are situations where international intervention into national abortion law and abortion care is necessary. This chapter explores two types of such interventions: human rights-based interventions, whereby international and regional bodies monitor state compliance with particular human rights treaties to provide recommendations or formally binding decisions, and humanitarian interventions, whereby in
International Organizations (IOs) have been at the forefront of responding to crises in the 21st century, and yet there is little comparative research on how, and how effectively, they have done this.
This book fills this gap by exploring what roles IOs take in response to global crises and to what effect. Bringing together a range of international contributors, the book examines a vast array of international and regional organizations, including the International Organization for Migration, World Health Organization, African Union and European Union. Aiming to answer key questions about IO behaviour, the book investigates these IOs’ responses to pressing issues including the global COVID-19 pandemic, the liberal order and security, and the climate crisis.
Using detailed insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention and conflict, this handbook provides essential practical guidance for researchers and students embarking on fieldwork in violent, repressive and closed contexts.
Contributors detail their own experiences from areas including the Congo, Sudan, Yemen, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Myanmar, inviting readers into their reflections on mistakes and hard-learned lessons. Divided into sections on issues of control and confusion, security and risk, distance and closeness and sex and sensitivity, they look at how to negotiate complex grey areas and raise important questions that intervention researchers need to consider before, during and after their time on the ground.
349 Chapter title Part IV Future anti-poverty policies: national and international
As International Relations enters its second century as an academic discipline, leading expert Knud Erik Jørgensen provides a provocative assessment of its past, present and future.
In this book, Jørgensen traces International Relations scholarship, from its formative interwar years through to rapid growth in students and researchers in the wake of globalization. He examines the resultant widening of scholarship in the field, and the effects that this has had on the global discipline. The result is a concise and challenging appraisal of International Relations, one which both celebrates its value and maps possible future directions.
Introduction It is intriguing, almost amusing, to watch how the disciplinary terroiriste have entered the discipline of International Relations in the last few decades, sometimes called just IR, presumably to avoid too much discipline. 1 Terroir and denominazione origine are no longer a domaine réservé for wine, cheese or foie gras. For the IR terroiriste it matters, and for some matters beyond imagination, in which garden a given theory has grown and which gardener cultivated it. In short, origin matters and, it seems to me, the issue should