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La longue nuit de la Première République. L'implosion clientéliste en Italie
No full textThe article is a revised version of EUI Working Paper SPS 1994/1
Embrace IR Anxieties (or, Morgenthau's Approach to Power, and the Challenge of Combining the Three Domains of IR Theorizing)
No full textThis article addresses the call made by the ISA Sapphire panel to focus on “the opportunities and the challenges of theory-building in interdisciplinary scholarship.” The article focuses on the multiple anxieties that exist in the discipline of IR, its departmental subalternity, its fragmentation of content, its methodological diversity, and its hybrid constitution of practical and observational knowledge. However, rather than arguing for any restriction, the article pleads for these anxieties to be embraced and for IR to be treated as a privileged space in which to integrate that knowledge. It invites scholars to link three distinct yet important domains of IR theorizing: the philosophical, the explanatory, and the practical. It invites the discipline to see the three domains as equally fundamental for its identity. Using Morgenthau's theory of power as a foil, the article shows the need to think about these three domains of theorizing concomitantly, despite the difficulties involved in providing a coherent link between them, something Morgenthau did not achieve.Correction in: International Studies Review, vol. 22, issue 3, page 737.WoS ttle: Embrace IR Anxieties (or, Morgenthau's Approach to Power, and the Challenge of Combining the Three Domains of IR Theorizing)</p
“Vision of Itself” in Foreign Policy Analysis : From the Role of Ideas to Identity and Recognition
No full textFor Henry Kissinger, a stable international order is not only based on a balance of power, but also on a balance of identities, of “visions of itself ”. How do our observational theories of international relations come to understand this practical maxim? This article shows that rationalist theories' methodological underpinnings fall short of satisfactorily addressing the issue, while constructivism’s and post-structuralism’s social ontology and relational understanding of identity provide a better starting point. And yet, when we return from the level of explanatory theory back to foreign policy practice, constructivist theorizing, precisely for its focus on identity, risks of being abused for the purpose of nationalist apologies of the very kind that makes a balance of identities impossible
Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy: The continuing story of a death foretold
No full textStefano Guzzini's study offers an understanding of the evolution of the realist tradition within International Relations and International Political Economy. It sees the realist tradition not as a school of thought with a static set of fixed principles, but as a repeatedly failed attempt to turn the rules of European diplomacy into the laws of a US social science. Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy concentrates on the evolution of a leading school of thought, its critiques and its institutional environment. As such it will provide an invaluable basis to anyone studying international relations theory.-- 1. Assumptions of a historical sociology of realism
-- 2. Classical realism: Carr, Morgenthau and the crisis of collective security
-- 3. evolution of realist core concepts during the second debate
-- 4. Realism and the US policy of containment
-- 5. turning point of the Cuban missile crisis: crisis management and the expanding research agenda
-- 6. Epilogue: Soviet theories of International Relations
-- 7. policy of detente: Kissinger and the limits of concert diplomacy
-- 8. International Relations in disarray: the inter-paradigm debate
-- 9. Systemic neorealism: Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Politics
-- 10. International Political Economy as an attempt to update realism: the end of the Bretton-Woods system and hegemonic stability theory
-- 11. International Political Economy at the convergence of realism and structuralism
-- 12. Realism gets lost: the epistemological turn of the 1980s and 1990s
-- 13. Realism at a crossroads.The book is a revised version of EUI Working Paper SPS 1992/2
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Protean power as a plea for an open social ontology, non-efficient causal explanations, and cautious political practice
No full textThis paper probes the attempt to use power analysis to link three domains: ontology, explanation, and the strategy of political actors. It shows how Katzenstein and Seybert develop an open social ontology that serves as the backdrop for explanations that need to be causal but indeterminate, and a cautious political practice. It exposes tensions in two important links. First, the open ontology becomes retranslated as an explanatory cause. Second, the call for being cautious because of 'unknown unknowns' may just as well invite strategies of doubling down in control power
Ideas and identity from rationalism to theories of recognition
No full textPublished: 26 December 2022All approaches to foreign policy analysis deal with ideas and identity; the issue is how they do so. The underlying theory of action, from utilitarianism to discursive ontologies and theories of recognition, provides the methodological assumptions of their respective analyses. The chapter develops first how the methodology of utilitarian approaches like recent versions of realism and liberalism deals with ideas, norms, and identity. It will be found lacking for objectifying ideational factors and for applying them in a causal efficient explanatory framework. A second section will then show how identity has been more coherently applied in constructivist foreign policy analysis, including in approaches to ontological security. They meet however a different set of problems, such as its often homeostatic assumptions, its more acute problem with anthropomorphization, and not least the pathologies of turning an observational theory into a nationalist foreign policy apology
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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