In this article, I argue that the introduction of ethnography to International Relations has not taken full advantage of the potential of bringing these two fields together. Using international intervention as an example, I suggest that to bring out this potential we need to be more attentive to the classical virtues of ethnography. This means taking the subjects of our studies much more seriously, as people capable of making sense of and reacting to the structures of power they are embedded in. Here implementers tasked to put international policies into action in relation to a concrete context provide an overlooked source of knowledge. Using their experiences, reflections and ways of dealing with the concrete dilemmas that arise in their daily work enables us to analyse intervention as concrete relations of power that play out, affect and are mitigated by people in the field. Seeing knowledge as in this manner arising from the field provides a deeper knowledge that is necessary if we want to read intervention not only as an exertion of power from the international to the local, but as dynamically reshaped, resisted and made sense of in the field.

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改善国际水平：将现场干预的日常理论化

在本文中，我认为将人种学引入国际关系并没有充分利用将这两个领域结合在一起的潜力。我以国际干预为例，建议要发挥这种潜力，我们需要更加注意人种志的经典美德。这意味着我们将更加认真地对待我们研究的主题，因为人们能够理解和理解他们所嵌入的权力结构。在这里，执行者的任务是根据具体情况将国际政策付诸行动，这提供了一个被忽视的来源。知识。利用他们的经验，思考和应对他们日常工作中出现的具体困境的方式，我们可以将干预分析为发挥出来的具体权力关系，影响并被现场人员缓解。以这种方式将知识视为来自现场的知识提供了更深的知识，如果我们希望将干预理解为不仅是从国际到本地的力量的施加，而是希望在现场动态地重塑，抵抗和理解，则必不可少。