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Triangulating the Legitimacy of International Organizations: Beliefs, Discourses, and Actions International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Jens Steffek
It is commonplace to say that international organizations (IOs) face a legitimacy crisis because they are perceived as undemocratic, unaccountable, and inefficient. Plausible as it may seem, this still must count as a conjecture. In this article, I review the rapidly growing literature that has explored this connection empirically. I follow three strands of research that approach the legitimacy of
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Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies: UN Peacekeeping Operations and Responses to Norm Violations International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Kseniya Oksamytna, Oisín Tansey, Sarah von Billerbeck, Birte Julia Gippert
Many international organizations (IOs) provide assistance to governments through country offices or peacekeeping operations. Sometimes, government authorities in countries receiving IO services violate norms that underpin the IO’s engagement. IO officials must then choose between confrontational and conciliatory responses. These responses are located on a spectrum that ranges from a firm and public
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Political economy of the ‘informal’ housing question: institutional-hybridity of the postcolonial state Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Danish Khan
In recent years, International Political Economy (IPE) scholars have increasingly turned their attention to cities. However, their primary focus has been on the role of a select few global ‘cities’...
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Value differentiation, policy change and cooperation in international regime complexes Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Tyler Pratt
In many issue areas in international political economy (IPE), interstate cooperation is governed by a dense network of distinct but overlapping international institutions. Whether this environment ...
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Building bridges or digging the trench? International organizations, social media, and polarized fragmentation Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt
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Governments as borrowers and regulators Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Timm Betz, Amy Pond
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Theorizing Infrastructures in Global Politics International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Christian Bueger, Tobias Liebetrau, Jan Stockbruegger
A growing wave of studies in international relations is interested in “infrastructure.” Pipelines, ports, financial transaction arrangements, and other large technical systems increasingly occupy the minds of international theorists. This theory note provides direction to the debate by offering an important clarification of the concept of infrastructure and how it is theorized. Scholars have very different
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Valuing women’s empowerment: tracking funding in Southeast Asia Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Kelly Gerard, Joshua McDonnell
Women’s empowerment is now a global development objective. However, the instrumentalization of this approach to gender equality has prompted calls for research into the financing of interventions. ...
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Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Alexander M Hynd, Daniel Connolly
Existing literature on international hierarchies has focused on great powers, hitherto overlooking those hierarchies led by secondary states. Secondary states lack the capabilities and geostrategic reach of their great power counterparts but nevertheless seek to create subordinate relationships in their immediate regions. We argue that in doing so secondary states draw on strategic toolkits that involve
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What Counts as Transitional Justice Scholarship? Citational Recognition and Disciplinary Hierarchies in Theory and Practice International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Maja Davidović, Catherine Turner
Since its emergence as a field of scholarship and practice, transitional justice has coalesced around a set of mechanisms to deal with a legacy of violence. The “pull” toward mechanisms, institutions, and structures as a means of delivering justice has led to certain kinds of knowledge being recognized as “transitional justice research” in the mainstream. Drawing on the theory of epistemic positioning
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How backsliding governments keep the European Union hospitable for autocracy: Evidence from intergovernmental negotiations Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Thomas Winzen
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The Key Role of Political Prisoners in Transcending Protracted Conflicts International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Tomer Schorr-Liebfeld, Avraham Sela
Resolving protracted, asymmetric, and ethno-national conflicts is a notoriously problematic process, and only a handful of such attempts have ended in success. This paper is the first comparative study examining the relevance of “politically motivated violent offenders” (PMVOs) in propelling the shift from a long and bloody armed struggle to a negotiated agreement; indeed, they play an indispensable
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The Spirit of the Convention and the Letter of the Colony: Refugees Defining States in a British Overseas Territory International Political Sociology (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Olga Demetriou
Whereas asylum policy is predicated on the assumption that states define refugees, this paper examines how refugees define states. Through the legal case of refugees stranded on a British military base in Cyprus since 1998, I show how refugees and the states that grant them or deny them protection become co-constitutive. The processes involved in judicial activism delineate the modalities through which
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Diplomatic Gender Patterns and Symbolic Status Signaling: Introducing the GenDip Dataset on Gender and Diplomatic Representation International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Birgitta Niklasson, Ann E Towns
This research note introduces a new dyadic dataset on gender and diplomatic representation and shows its potential to address questions about international status, gender patterns in international politics, and more. The GenDip dataset includes the names and gender classification of all bilateral ambassadors heading embassies 1968–2019 (74,549), structured as dyad/decade for 1968–1998 and dyad/lustrum
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Secondary effects of financial sanctions: Bank compliance and economic isolation of non-target states Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Abraham L. Newman, Qi Zhang
As states employ financial sanctions as a form of economic coercion, firms become the foot soldiers. This analysis bridges work on weaponized interdependence with work on extraterritorial authority...
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Trojan horses in liberal international organizations? How democratic backsliders undermine the UNHRC Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Anna M. Meyerrose, Irfan Nooruddin
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The International Recognition of Governments in Practice(s): Creatures, Mirages, and Dilemmas in Post-2011 Libya International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Irene Fernández-Molina
The international (non)recognition of governments is a composite macro practice that has grown in visibility in recent years in response to contentious domestic political processes such as coups d’état, revolutions, and civil wars, yet it remains understudied in international relations. Doctrinal debates in international law and foreign policy reveal the normative vacuum and normative competition that
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The Transnational Social Contract in the Global South International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Kamal Sadiq, Gerasimos Tsourapas
How does labor emigration affect state–society relations across postcolonial states? We argue that the opportunity to pursue employment abroad alters a fundamental component of postcolonial states—the post-independence social contract. Such states’ inability to sustain post-independence levels of welfare provision first leads to the development of “emigration management institutions,” which seek to
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Empowering your victims: Why repressive regimes allow individual petitions in international organizations Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Rachel J. Schoner
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New Democracies and Commitment to Human Rights Treaties International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Xinyuan Dai, Alexandros Tokhi
One of the most influential arguments suggests that new democracies are more inclined than others to commit to international human rights treaties. This paper examines whether new democracies are more likely to commit not only to the basic, but also to the more demanding and constraining treaties. We argue that despite the strategic utility of costly commitments, new democracies are often unwilling
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The international political economy of export credit agencies and the energy transition Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Maxfield Peterson, Christian Downie
If the world is to achieve an energy transition to address climate change, global finance must shift rapidly away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy. Despite the prominence of global finance...
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Terrified or Enraged? Emotional Microfoundations of Public Counterterror Attitudes International Organization (IF 5.754) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Carly N. Wayne
Despite the widespread assumption of terrorism's “terrifying” effect, there has been little systematic testing of the specific emotional microfoundations underlying public opinion about terrorism. While fear is one well-recognized emotional response to terror threats, in societies where terrorism is rare, anger may play a more pivotal role, with distinct consequences for citizens’ downstream political
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When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Kathleen E Powers, Brian C Rathbun
Globalization is frequently linked to populism in advanced industrial societies, yet scholars have found little evidence for a direct connection between citizens’ personal economic fortunes and populist beliefs. We draw on the sociotropic tradition to argue that beliefs about how the global economy differently affects groups in society link globalization to populism and its component elements—anti-elitism
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Spatializing social reproduction theory: integrating state space and the urban fabric Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 William Conroy
This article sets out to extend the core ideas of social reproduction theory (SRT), an increasingly influential strand of scholarship within and beyond critical geopolitical economy. It suggests th...
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Teaching and Learning Reflexivity in the World Politics Classroom International Political Sociology (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Roxani Krystalli
Complementing discussions of reflexivity as a research practice, this article turns its attention to the classroom. How does a pedagogy that invites students to practice reflexivity represent possibilities for thinking, writing, and imagining otherwise in scholarly engagements with world politics? In response to this question, I explore the dilemmas, challenges, and possibilities students encounter
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“Be Creative, Be Friends and Share Cultural Experiences”: Genre, Politics, and Fun at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest International Political Sociology (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Zoë Jay
This article examines children’s political agency in the context of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The Eurovision Song Contest is widely recognized as a political arena—a space for nation branding and soft diplomacy, narratives of European musical and democratic harmony, and protests over global political events. But despite filling similar roles to their adult counterparts, the young performers’
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Protection for Hire: Cooperation through Regional Organizations International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Christina Cottiero
There is growing evidence that leaders cooperate through regional intergovernmental organizations (RIOs) to address domestic security challenges. What sustains this collaboration? I present a theory of regional cooperation driven by mutual interest in stability and protection for heads of state. RIOs support the development of rules and norms around contributing to regional security and can legitimize
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A paradox of openness: Democracies, financial integration & crisis Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Devin Case-Ruchala
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Sharing rivals, sending weapons: Rivalry and cooperation in the international arms trade, 1920–1939 Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Marius Mehrl, Daniel Seussler, Paul W. Thurner
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Civilized Barbarism: What We Miss When We Ignore Colonial Violence International Organization (IF 5.754) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Paul K. MacDonald
Colonial warfare has been a frequent and bloody feature of international relations, yet most studies of wartime civilian victimization focus on either interstate or civil wars. In this article I argue that ignoring colonial violence has distorted our understanding of state-directed violence against civilians in wartime. I introduce a new theory of colonial violence, which focuses on the distinctive
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Polarity and Strategic Competition: A Structural Explanation of Renewed Great Power Rivalry The Chinese Journal of International Politics (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Baohui Zhang
Strategic competition, or great power competition, has become a new buzz-word in international politics. Yet, few studies have undertaken any systematic examination of what caused its return to the centre stage of international relations. This study hence formulates a parsimonious structural explanation of renewed great power rivalry. Relying on the insights of neorealism and its two structural variants—defensive
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Sovereignty Intrusion: Populism and Attitudes toward the International Monetary Fund International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Sam Handlin, Ayse Kaya, Hakan Gunaydin
The global populist backlash is considered threatening to the multilateral order, but its impact on individual attitudes toward international organizations, like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is understudied. We bridge insights from research on the IMF and populism to develop a theoretical framework centered on three propositions. We argue that populist individuals should be more prone to
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Defaulting Differently: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Restructuring Negotiations International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Lauren L Ferry
Negotiations to restructure sovereign debt are protracted affairs, and their outcomes, known as “haircuts,” range from 0 to 80 percent creditor losses. Haircuts impact states’ ability to borrow, cost of borrowing, and economic recovery; they also redistribute income—between states and creditors and between domestic interest groups. I conceptualize the interaction between governments and private creditors
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Civil War Mediation and the Conflict Environment: Does Regional Instability Influence the Onset of Mediation? International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Lindsay Reid, Kelly M Kadera, Mark J C Crescenzi
Hostile regional environments can spur civil war at home. Do they also affect mediation in a state’s ongoing civil war? We hypothesize they do, but in ways that produce competing effects: Third parties hesitate to offer mediation in a conflictual environment, but hostile environments also make disputants more amenable to mediation. We test these diverging expectations using a measure of conflict environments
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Dispossession, social reproduction and the feminization of refugee survival: Ethiopian refugees in Nairobi, Kenya Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Bina Fernandez, Handun Rasari Athukorala
This paper theorizes the gendered consequences of refugee dispossession for social reproduction, focusing on Ethiopian refugees in Nairobi, Kenya. We analyze the Kenyan refugee regime as structured...
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Governance capture and socio-environmental conflict: a critical political economy of the global mining industry’s prior consultation regime Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Jonathan Kishen Gamu, Niels Soendergaard
Prior consultation purports to mitigate socio-environmental conflict risks by creating deliberative and democratic spaces for local communities to influence decisions over newly proposed mining pro...
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Soft governance against superbugs: How effective is the international regime on antimicrobial resistance? Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Mirko Heinzel, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi
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Demand for Statehood: The Case of Native Military Recruitment in World War II International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Joowon Yi
This paper examines how the demand for independence appeared in the era of Decolonization. I argue that nationalist movements were more likely to emerge in places where the colonial authorities recruited the native population in World War II. The theory highlights the role of war veterans in creating the demand for independence and in facilitating it through organized collective action. Drawing on
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Competition and regime complex architecture: authority relations and differentiation in international education Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Rie Kijima, Phillip Y. Lipscy
What are the determinants and consequences of regime complexity? We argue that characteristics of international issue areas – network effects and entry barriers – affect the degree of feasible comp...
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Building strong executives and weak institutions: How European integration contributes to democratic backsliding Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Anna M. Meyerrose
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Cooperation between international organizations: Demand, supply, and restraint Rev. Int. Organ. (IF 7.833) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Diana Panke, Sören Stapel
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Fair-Weather Abusers? Civil War Dynamics and the Onset of State-Sponsored Violence International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Eric Keels, J Michael Greig
Despite decades of rigorous research on the use of government-sponsored violence in armed conflicts, there remains significant uncertainty as to when and where leaders choose to target civilians in war. We argue that the variation in the use of state repression is explained in part by how soldiers perceive battlefield gains by rebel forces. Specifically, while strong opposition forces are often a necessary
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Rethinking International Order in Early Modern Europe: Evidence from Courtly Ceremonial International Organization (IF 5.754) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Quentin Bruneau
Once the object of consensus, every aspect of the traditional account of early modern Europe as an anarchic system of sovereign states is now debated—from the existence of sovereign states to the notion of anarchy, and even the European limits of that system. In the context of these disagreements, I develop a new account of international order in early modern Europe grounded in the perceptions of historical
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How Authoritarian Governments Decide Who Emigrates: Evidence from East Germany International Organization (IF 5.754) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Julian Michel, Michael K. Miller, Margaret E. Peters
Most autocracies restrict emigration yet still allow some citizens to exit. How do these regimes decide who can leave? We argue that many autocracies strategically target anti-regime actors for emigration, thereby crafting a more loyal population without the drawbacks of persistent co-optation or repression. However, this generates problematic incentives for citizens to join opposition activity to
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Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes Cooperation in International Relations International Organization (IF 5.754) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Jane Vaynman, Tristan A. Volpe
Almost all technology is dual use to some degree: it has both civilian and military applications. This feature creates a dilemma for cooperation. States can design arms control institutions to curtail costly competition over some military technology. But they also do not want to limit valuable civilian uses. How does the dual use nature of technology shape the prospects for cooperation? We argue that
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Interactive Leader Psychology and the Ebb and Flow of Interstate Rivalry International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Dennis M Foster, Jonathan W Keller
A great deal of scholarship links leaders’ psychological traits to their monadic tendency to use force abroad, but virtually no work considers how the interaction of leadership psychology influences the systematic likelihood of dyadic interstate conflict. We develop and test several competing explanations of how the interactive conceptual complexity of leaders—a psychological trait that consistently
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Human Shields and the Gulf War International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Alexander de la Paz
From late August to early December 1990, Iraq held hundreds of Western and Japanese civilians at strategic sites as “human shields” against the Gulf War coalition. While there is a consensus that these foreign nationals would have influenced the coalition’s offensive had they not been released before the onset of hostilities, their impact remains poorly understood. This note draws on newly available
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A tale of dualization: accounting for the partial marketization of regulated savings in France Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Elsa Clara Massoc, Cyril Benoit
Abstract As in other countries, regulated savings in France are intricately woven into dense regulatory frameworks driven by explicit governmental objectives. The anticipated marketization of the French economy should have eradicated them; however, a substantial portion of regulated savings has managed to evade this process. Is this phenomenon attributable to the tenacious grip of the French state-led
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Food Insecurity and Unrest Participation: Evidence from Johannesburg, South Africa International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Ida Rudolfsen
This study assesses the claim that food insecurity leads to participation in unrest. I argue that insecure access to food can provide a motivational force to engage in urban unrest. But individuals must also have the capacity to partake in collective action, and acute food insecurity may undermine mobilization potential. Further, food insecurity is a mundane and widespread grievance often seen as an
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The Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence: Next Steps for Empirical and Normative Research International Studies Review (IF 4.342) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Jonas Tallberg, Eva Erman, Markus Furendal, Johannes Geith, Mark Klamberg, Magnus Lundgren
Artificial intelligence (AI) represents a technological upheaval with the potential to change human society. Because of its transformative potential, AI is increasingly becoming subject to regulatory initiatives at the global level. Yet, so far, scholarship in political science and international relations has focused more on AI applications than on the emerging architecture of global AI regulation
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Digital–Nondigital Assemblages: Data, Paper Trails, and Migrants’ Scattered Subjectivities at the Border International Political Sociology (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Lucrezia Canzutti, Martina Tazzioli
This paper argues that the border regime works through entanglements of digital and nondigital data and of “low-tech” and “high-tech” technologies. It suggests that a critical analysis of the assemblages between digital and nondigital requires exploring their effects of subjectivation on those who are labeled as “migrants.” The paper starts with a critique of the presentism and techno-hype that pervade
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Blind spots in IPE: contract law and the structural embedding of transnational capitalism Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 A. Claire Cutler
Abstract This paper focuses on the ‘blind spots in IPE’ recently addressed in related Special Issues of Review of International Political Economy and New Political Economy. It identifies a blind spot of law in IPE, tracing the problem to a blind spot in the discipline of international relations (IR) generated by tendencies in dominant theories to consider international law to be super-structural, epiphenomenal
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Another strange non-death: the NAIRU and the ideational foundations of the Federal Reserve’s new monetary policy framework Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Tobias Arbogast, Hielke Van Doorslaer, Mattias Vermeiren
Abstract Monetary policy has long relied on the ‘natural rate hypothesis’, suggesting that after an economic shock the unemployment rate will automatically return to its supply-side ‘natural’ rate or NAIRU. Macroeconomic developments since the 2008 financial crisis have challenged this hypothesis, forcing the US Federal Reserve to conduct a strategic review of its monetary policy framework, published
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Governing cyberspace: policy boundary politics across organizations Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Stephanie C. Hofmann, Patryk Pawlak
Policy boundaries and issue interdependence are not a given. The stakes they imply—who governs, how, and where a policy domain is—become institutionalized over time, often first by the Global North...
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Knowledge politics in global governance: philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, Ximena Osorio Garate
Abstract Existing research points to the presence of philanthropists in global governance as funders of programmes and partners. Through an in-depth exploration of global health governance, we highlight that philanthropic organizations now shape governance by acting as producers of knowledge. Practicing ‘knowledge philanthropism’, they collect, produce and assemble the data, calculations and research
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Competing investor response to direct and indirect expropriation: evidence from the extractive sector Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Alero Akporiaye
Abstract Some research shows that foreign investors generally respond negatively to expropriation by host governments, and other research reveals that investors cope with expropriation. Why are there varied responses to expropriation? The nature of the obsolescing bargain—expropriation—is under-explored and measured unclearly in the political risk literature. I argue that investors respond more negatively
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The instability of the nuclear nonproliferation regime complex Rev. Int. Polit. Econ. (IF 4.146) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni
This article theorizes path-dependent changes in the institutional architecture of the nuclear nonproliferation regime complex; it analyses the effects of different regime-complex structures on ins...
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Contesting State Monologues: Indigenous Grassroots’ Struggles with Prior Consultation Norms in the Peruvian Amazon International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Riccarda Flemmer
Prior consultation (PC) has been an internationally enshrined norm for indigenous peoples’ rights since the 1980s. Indigenous peoples have called for PC for decades, but when governments finally begin implementation, a paradox results: previous advocates increasingly turn away from consultation processes. I argue that only with the perspective that norms are and should be contested “on the ground,”
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“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid International Studies Quarterly (IF 2.799) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Valerie de Koeijer, Sarah E Parkinson, Sofia J Smith
Increasing research on the humanitarian sector examines how its organizational cultures affect both aid outcomes and humanitarian workers’ private lives. The #MeToo movement and several public scandals have brought to light patterns of sexual violence in crisis zones perpetrated by humanitarian aid workers; surveys suggest rates of sexual assault within the humanitarian community comparable to, if
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Visual Necropolitics and Visual Violence: Theorizing Death, Sight, and Sovereign Control of Palestine International Political Sociology (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Miriam Deprez
The Israeli military’s occupation of Palestinian territory relies heavily on its ability to shape the visual environment and set the terms of how Palestinians may see and be seen. However, the relationship between violent occupation and violent visualities has yet to be fully theorized. This article gathers several conceptual strands—biopolitics, visual biopolitics, and necropolitics—to theorize what