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Degrowth, global asymmetries, and ecosocial justice: Decolonial perspectives from Latin America Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Miriam Lang
Degrowth literature predominantly states that degrowth strategies are meant from and for the Global North. While economic mainstream discourse suggests that the Global South still has to grow in terms of achieving development, degrowth proponents expect a reduction of material and energy throughput in the Global North to make ecological and conceptual space for the Global South to find its own paths
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Indigenous peoples at the heritage–climate change nexus: Examining the effectiveness of UNESCO and the IPCC’s boundary work Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Pedram Rashidi
There is increasing recognition that Indigenous knowledges have considerable potential to enhance collective understandings of and improve responses to complex ecological threats, such as those to cultural heritage from climate change. At the same time, it appears that Indigenous peoples face structural barriers to participation in international organisations that advance knowledge about those problems
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Legitimate governance in international politics: Towards a relational theory of legitimation Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Wolfgang Minatti
How do governing actors in international politics become legitimised? Current approaches to the study of legitimation do not fully account for the complexities of governance in contemporary international and global politics because they pre-specify ‘sources’ of legitimacy and treat change in audience expectations towards rightful rule as exogenous to legitimation processes. Instead, this article synthesises
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‘Every one (re)membered’: Anxiety, family history, and militarised vicarious identity promotion during Britain’s First World War centenary commemorations Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Joseph Haigh
International Relations (IR) scholarship on ontological (in)security has explored how political agents seek to shape collective identity through the contestation and securitisation of memory narratives around controversial historical events. This article contributes a novel approach for understanding how actors promote emotional engagement with such narratives, synthesising nascent scholarship on vicarious
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‘Sovereignty is still the name of the game’: Indigenous theorising and strategic entanglement in Māori political discourses Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Valentin Clavé-Mercier
In recent decades, sovereignty has come under increased academic scrutiny for being a Eurocentric notion antithetical to emancipatory politics, leading critical theory scholars to call for an overcoming or even abandonment of the concept. Paradoxical as it may seem, it nonetheless remains an appealing ideal for many colonised peoples. Indigenous activists and scholars have actively re-appropriated
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Sustaining gender: Natural resource management, conflict prevention, and the UN Sustaining Peace agenda in times of climate catastrophe Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Caitlin Ryan, María Martín de Almagro
Climate change and its potentially violent consequences for international peace and security have transformed the United Nations (UN) approach to Sustaining Peace. One of the emblematic initiatives of this new approach is the UN Joint Programme for Women, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace. We use feminist peace scholarship to consider what the recent debates about who builds peace and where peace
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Post-growth peacebuilding Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Dahlia Simangan
Economic development is considered one of the pillars of international peacebuilding. The mandates of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations often contain the promotion of economic growth as a prerequisite for post-conflict recovery and sustainable peace. However, the relationship between peace and economic growth needs re-examination in light of urgent calls for global sustainability and
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Are propagandists combatants? Analysing the ethical status of propagandists in warfare Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Marie Robin
Belligerents increasingly rely on media manipulation, propaganda, and communication to attain strategic advantages in conflict. Given the civilian propagandists’ clear role in creating tactical or strategic advantages for one side in the conflict, should these propagandists be considered combatants, and can they therefore be legitimately targeted because of their activities? This article overcomes
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Armed group formation in civil war: ‘Movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Anastasia Shesterinina, Michael Livesey
How do non-state armed groups form in intra-state armed conflicts? Researchers have started to disaggregate armed groups, but we still know little about how armed groups emerge in different ways. Drawing on the literature on social movements, civil wars, and civil–military relations, we generate a typology of ‘movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins of armed groups. We argue that fundamentally
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Between race and animality: European borders, ‘colonial dogs’, and the policing of humanity Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Tarsis Brito
Europe’s (post-)colonial borders have been recently marked by a profusion of cases of violence against racialised migrants with the use of police dogs, following a continual process of integration of canines into the border apparatus of violence. Engaging simultaneously with the recent post-colonial literature on border and migration security and the incipient domain of animal studies, this article
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Navigating nuclear narratives in contemporary television: The BBC’s Vigil Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Emily Faux
This article explores the BBC television drama Vigil (2021) as a significant site for the construction of public knowledge about nuclear weapons. In doing so, it extends beyond discourse-oriented approaches to explore how nuclear discourses manifest in visual communication, everyday encounters, and popular imagination. In a close reading of Vigil, this article questions concepts of security, peace
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Race and systemic crises in international politics: An agenda for pluralistic scholarship Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Andrew S. Rosenberg
In recent years, scholars of global politics have shown that issues of race and white supremacy lie at the centre of international history, the birth of the field of International Relations, and contemporary theory. In this article, I argue that race plays an equally central role in the 21st century’s current and future crises: the set of systemic risks that includes intensifying climate change, deepening
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Un-suturing Westphalian IR via non-Western literature: A Grey Man (1963) Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Young Chul Cho, Jungmin Seo
This paper aims to un-suture common-sense assumptions based on Westphalian International Relations (IR) from South Korea’s non-essentialist and situated perspective, in the context of decolonising IR. Towards this end, the paper methodologically investigates a South Korean novel, A Grey Man, published in 1963 during South Korea’s early post-colonial period at the height of the Cold War. Using a non-Western
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Exposing linguistic imperialism: Why global IR has to be multilingual Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Ersel Aydinli, Julie Aydinli
A key feature of the long-observed ‘core’ hegemony in International Relations (IR) is a linguistic one, yet it remains the least explored and confronted, with even today’s ‘Global IR’ discussion unquestioningly taking place in English. However, the non-English IR world is demographically and intellectually immense, and global IR cannot afford to ignore it. This study argues that English dominance in
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Cosmologies of conquest: The Renaissance foundations of modern international thought Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Jens Bartelson
This paper seeks to reconstruct the worldview informing Iberian overseas expansion during the long sixteenth century, arguing that this worldview was more indebted to Renaissance cosmology than to a recognisably modern scientific worldview. The paper describes how this cosmology provided the intellectual resources necessary to justify overseas expansion to those who doubted its viability and legitimacy
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Negotiating regime complexity: Following a regime complex in the making Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Arne Langlet, Alice Vadrot
This article broadens the understanding and empirical study of regime complexes by shifting the focus from the negotiation outcome to the processes of negotiating new international agreements. Although they are important to regime-complex formation and delimitation, the sites where states negotiate new agreements are rather neglected. We aim to enhance the methodological toolbox available to scholars
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The double-helix entanglements of transnational advocacy: Moral conservative resistance to LGBTI rights Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Phillip M. Ayoub, Kristina Stoeckl
The rights of people who are marginalised by their sexual orientation and gender identity (LGBTI) have improved in many countries. Largely, these achievements can be traced back to the ‘spiral model’ of factors including transnational mobilisation by the LGBTI rights movement, the actions of a few pioneering governments, and advances in the human rights frameworks of some international organisations
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The difference multiplicity makes: The American Civil War as passive revolution Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Alexander Anievas, Dabney Waring
This article examines and further develops the relationship between the theory of uneven and combined development (UCD), recently taken up by International Relations (IR) scholars to furnish a social theory of ‘the international’, and the Gramscian concept of ‘passive revolution’, which refers to a molecular process of top-down revolution and state formation that preserves ruling-class power by transforming
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International memories in global politics: Making the case for or against UN intervention in Libya and Syria Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Kathrin Bachleitner
This paper is interested in the role and function of memories in United Nations Security Council debates about humanitarian intervention. It posits that historical experiences and their lessons serve as interpretative devices for the abstract international norms and principles under discussion. The paper speaks of ‘international memories’ where the meaning and lessons derived from the past coalesce
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Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatami’s Dialogue among Civilisations Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Shabnam Holliday, Edward Wastnidge
This article argues that Dialogue among Civilisations can be put forward as a crucial contribution to debates addressing IR’s Eurocentrism. It highlights the blurring of West/non-West, domestic/international, and imperial/post-imperial bifurcations. This is evident in three ways. First, Dialogue among Civilisations needs to be appreciated in Iran’s wider historical context and its multifaceted intellectual
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Meditations on ‘international friendship’: Situating twinning in global struggles for solidarity, recognition, and restitution Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Holly Eva Ryan
This article takes the practice of twinning as an entry point for problematising conventional accounts of ‘international friendship’ in the field of International Relations. In particular, the paper zeroes in on three examples of twinning practice, past and present, that have challenged the status quo: twinnings established in opposition to the Contra war in Nicaragua; twinning as an act of recognition
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Becoming a humanitarian state: A performative analysis of ‘status-seeking’ as statecraft in world politics Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Ali Bilgic
Status-seeking is ubiquitous in world politics, and the literature is currently dominated by state-centrism and rationalism, which is almost exclusively focus on state elites. This results in a thin and limited understanding of what ‘status-seeking’ is, where it works, and how it is effected. This article challenges the existing approaches by introducing a performativity framework and offers an overhaul
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Emotions, International Relations, and the everyday: Individuals’ emotional attachments to international organisations Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Anne-Marie Houde
In recent years, various crises such as the financial crisis, Brexit, and the Covid-19 pandemic have shed light on citizens’ (dis)satisfaction with international organisations (IOs). Yet, despite their crucial importance for the support of IOs, individual citizens’ connection to these organisations remains understudied. This article contributes to the literature on emotion research in International
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‘Chống dịch như chống giặc’ (‘Fighting the pandemic like fighting the invader’): Audience agency and historical resources in Vietnam’s early securitisation of Covid-19 Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Xuan Dung Phan, Quah Say Jye, Minh Son To
Vietnam’s initial response to Covid-19 was conspicuous for various reasons, including how its attempt at securitisation drew deeply from historical narratives, symbols, and traditions specific to the Vietnamese experience, as well as how the securitisation project was not simply top-down and state-driven but also featured ground-up participation where the public was mobilised to participate in and
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Beyond the numbers on women’s representation: Recognition of women’s leadership in global governance Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Hortense Jongen
To what extent has the glass ceiling in global governance been shattered? To answer this question, we need to look beyond the numbers on women’s representation and study how far women are perceived as inspiring and visionary leaders in global governance. This article offers an analysis of perceptions of inspiring and visionary leadership in global multistakeholder initiatives from a gender perspective
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The coloniality of the religious terrorism thesis Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Rabea M. Khan
A dominant narrative, produced and reproduced especially by terrorism scholars, holds that terrorism in its worst form is religious. The most dangerous and non-negotiable form of terrorism, in other words, is the religious kind. At the same time, there is a recurring implication, proposed by many terrorism scholars and reflected in public discourse, that terrorism, no matter its official designation
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Violations of the heart: Parental harm in war and oppression Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Rebekka Friedman, Hanna Ketola
This article examines ‘parental harm’ – a harm that occurs when a parent loses or faces the threat of losing a child. We contend that the manipulation and severing of relationships between parents and children has played a central role in war and oppression across historical contexts. Parental harm has long-term and pervasive effects and results in complex legacies for carers and their communities
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The intimate public as a decolonial lens: “cripping” affect, nationalism and imperial violence Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Sara Tafakori
This article brings an intimate perspective to bear upon the violence of economic sanctions, shifting attention away from an exclusive focus on state actors, in order to examine how “‘wounds” enter politics’.1 In this research, I ‘stretch’ Berlant’s notion of the intimate public, reconfiguring it as a decolonial analytic lens on subaltern suffering in conditions of endemic imperial violence. I focus
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Visual (data) observation in International Relations: Attentiveness, close description, and the politics of seeing differently Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Jonathan Luke Austin, Isabel Bramsen
Has Visual International Relations (IR) become too distant from the content of visual artefacts? This is a paradoxical question. Visual IR is a vibrant and pluralist field exploring visuals in innumerable ways. Nonetheless, the field tends to focus on ‘deep’ readings of the socio-political implications of visual artefacts at the expense of a close and attentive observation and description of the events
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Conceptual politics and resilience-at-work in the European Union Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Jonathan Joseph, Ana E. Juncos
International crises, most recently the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, often radically change our view of the world and our place within it. The European Union (EU) has been particularly impacted by these developments because these crises have accentuated some of its ontological and epistemological uncertainties and insecurities. While the EU’s resilience turn initiated by the
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Existentialism and International Relations: In it up to our necks Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Andrew R. Hom, Cian O’Driscoll
What, this essay asks, is the relation between contemporary IR scholarship and the existentialist intellectual and cultural tradition? How is our discipline informed and animated by existentialist thinking? Is existentialism a heritage to be recovered, claimed, and embraced by IR scholars, or a shadow to be escaped? And what resources does it furnish us for thinking through the kind of issues that
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The power of interpersonal relationships: A socio-legal approach to international institutions and human rights advocacy Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Nina Reiners
This article further develops and illustrates the argument that relationships between individuals help to explain the success of human rights advocacy in international institutions. Drawing from advocacy theory and socio-legal studies, I shift the attention from collective forms of advocacy to the importance of interpersonal relationships of advocates with individuals in international institutions
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Infrastructure and the integral state: Internal Relations, processes of state formation, and Gramscian state theory Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Daniel R. McCarthy
Infrastructures are central to processes of state formation. The revival of materialism in International Relations has made an important contribution to our understanding of states through careful analysis of the politics of infrastructure and state building. Yet, to date, engagement with the state-theoretical tradition associated with the work of Antonio Gramsci, Nicos Poulantzas, and Bob Jessop has
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Women’s discursive agency in transitional justice policy-making: A feminist institutionalist approach Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Denisa Kostovicova, Vesna Popovski
Scholars have studied how women’s domestic and transnational civil society activism addresses the gendered nature of transitional justice. In contrast, they have paid scant attention to women’s impact on transitional justice policy-making in institutions. We leverage the feminist institutionalist perspective that makes visible gendered norms, rules, and discourses in institutions. Homing in on women’s
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The Black Fantastic in International Relations Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Lester Spence
In 2016, British investigative journalist Simon Rogers created a map/timeline of Twitter hashtags associated with Black Lives Matter. The map (which no longer exists) indirectly shows both the intensity of Black Lives Matter protests and their geographic scope. Within the United States, we see not only protest activity in metropolitan areas with large black population percentages, but also protest
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Problematising entanglement fetishism in IR: On the possibility of being without being in relation Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Ignasi Torrent
The following article seeks to question the deterministic tinge behind entanglement fetishism, namely the celebratory, uninhibited, and totalising projection of the world as a relational wholeness. Alongside the rise of Anthropocene debates and the claimed incapacity of post-positivism to account for contemporary socio-natural transformations, the text embarks on two main goals. On the one hand, the
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‘The nation has conquered the state’: Arendtian insights on the internal contradictions of the nation-state Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Peter J. Verovšek
The globalisation of political power into structures ‘above’ or ‘beyond’ the nation-state has increasingly been called into question as part of a ‘sovereigntist turn’ in contemporary politics. While such demands for local control by bounded peoples may be democratic, empirically they often also take a nationalist form. Building on Hannah Arendt’s analysis of how ‘the nation conquered the state’, I
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Accommodating Nutopia: The nuclear ban treaty and the developmental interests of Global South countries Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Andrew Futter, Olamide Samuel
This article argues that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) would not have been possible without protecting the inalienable rights of states to pursue nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. While some Western states and NGOs have pushed to ban all applications of nuclear technology, this was unacceptable to a large number of disarmament-supporting states from the Global South and
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Inscribing security: The case of Zelensky’s selfies Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Håvard Rustad Markussen
‘Visual turn’ scholarship in International Relations (IR) acknowledges the importance of new information and communication technology for the production and circulation of images but lacks sustained engagement with the technologies themselves and how they interact with humans in the visual production of security. This article brings the visual turn into conversation with Science and Technology Studies
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Ontological security, myth, and existentialism Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Xander Kirke, Brent J. Steele
This paper contributes to this special issue by examining the existentialist themes re-emerging in Ontological Security Studies (OSS) and does so by proposing an under-explored and overlapping terrain regarding the function of myths and ontological security. What Blumenberg calls the ‘absolutism of reality’ becomes something to avoid through the process of telling, retelling, and adapting myths to
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Dreams of atomic genocide: The bomb, racial violence, and fantasies of annihilation Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Benjamin Meiches
This paper examines the influence of nuclear weapons on fantasies of racial violence. Specifically, it argues that weapons impact the emergence of social formations, producing unique patterns of thought, desire, anticipation, and identity. While the effects of nuclear power have been central to disciplinary debates in international studies, existing critical commentary has largely focused on the discriminatory
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Crossed pandemics: Racism, police violence, and Covid-19 in Brazil and the United States Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Marta Fernández, Pedro Paulo dos Santos Silva
The article aims to answer the following question: how is it possible that in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, as a series of daily activities were suspended in the name of preserving life, police violence has not only continued but worsened in the United States and in Brazil? We argue that racism structures social relations both in the United States and in Brazil, functioning as an essential
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Decolonising to reimagine International Relations: An introduction Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Somdeep Sen
Seeing as colonialism is ubiquitous to where International Relations (IR) comes from, what it explains and who it represents, many have argued that the decolonisation of the discipline is impossible. However, in this agenda-setting introduction, I place decolonisation squarely in the realm of possibility and ask, ‘what would a decolonised field look like?’. In answering this question, the contributions
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Decolonising Development Studies Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Ilan Kapoor
This article explores ways of decolonising Development Studies by: (1) examining the discipline’s tendencies towards what some have called ‘imperial amnesia’, that is, proclivities towards disavowing if not erasing European colonialism, most evident in 1950s–1960s Modernisation theory, but also more recently in the work of such analysts as Bruce Gilley and Nigel Biggar; (2) considering the opportunities
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Pluriversal sovereignty and the state of IR Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Ajay Parasram
IR proceeds on a Eurocentric ontological assumption that sovereignty has universal validity today. How can IR be decolonised, when in spite of countless examples of the enactment of ‘sovereignty otherwise’, the discipline remains unconcerned with the fact that the logic of sovereignty remains uni-versal. The question is as much political as it is intellectual, because as a discipline, we have allowed
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Invisible on the globe but not in the global: Decolonising IR using small island vistas Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Kristina Hinds
Teaching and studying International Relations (IR) in the Caribbean makes the region’s invisibility unmissable. Nevertheless, these locales have significantly influenced the structure of global processes and are also acutely affected by global occurrences. Exposure to the global has led Caribbean scholarship to offer worthwhile insights into world affairs. Thinkers from the region and its diaspora
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Elusive decolonisation of IR in the Arab world Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Dana El Kurd
Arab social science scholarship, and IR in particular, has been systematically underfunded and sidelined by governments across the region. As such, IR scholars in the Arab world have struggled to produce scholarship in hostile and authoritarian environments, let alone address efforts to decolonise. Of the few initiatives of indigenising social science that exist in the Arab world, the Doha Institute
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The messy practice of decolonising a concept: Everyday humanitarianism in Tanzania Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Consolata Raphael Sulley, Lisa Ann Richey
This article1 explores the messy practice of decolonising a concept through collaborative work between scholars researching together the meaning of everyday humanitarianism in Tanzania. Humanitarianism is typically understood as the state-centric, formal, Northern-driven helping of distant others in crisis. Using the concept of everyday humanitarianism, our article challenges these assumptions in three
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The politics of science: A postscript Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Somdeep Sen
This postscript deliberates the wider implications of decolonising the academy. It takes point of departure in the often-contentious public discourse on the topic and asks, why is the decolonisation agenda so concerning to public officials and the target of public policy? In many ways, derisive and irreverent responses to efforts to decolonise universities, schools, and the curricula is only expected
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Pan-African gender governance: The politics of aspiration at the African Union Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Karmen Tornius
The African Union (AU) has developed an elaborate gender governance architecture, including gender machineries and women’s desks, policy frameworks, path-breaking women’s rights laws, and ongoing campaigns on women’s rights–related issues. At the same time, the member states’ engagement with this architecture is at best lukewarm, with a lack of domestication, compliance, and accountability. This paradox
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After states, before humanity? The meta-politics of legality and the International Criminal Court in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Janis Grzybowski, Filipe dos Reis
In the debate on the (de-)judicialisation of international affairs and the International Criminal Court (ICC) specifically, the distinctions between legality and politics and between state sovereignty and the international remain contested. While realist and legalist approaches discuss the transformation of international politics by international criminal law, sociological and critical-legal perspectives
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Who forms the mass in mass destruction? Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Himadeep Muppidi
This essay revisits the question of mass destruction through the perspectives offered by postcolonial thinkers.
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A letter to Baba Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Shiera S. el-Malik
This is a piece of creative non-fiction. The letter from a daughter to a father is an attempt to understand intergenerationally shared histories, experiences, and different orientations. It aims to imagine what decolonial thinking could look and feel like. Interdisciplinary in its orientation, the letter moves between personal stories and the broader scholarly quest to contemplate the embodied racialized
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How should IR deal with the “end of the world”? Existential anxieties and possibilities in the Anthropocene Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Dahlia Simangan
The Anthropocene, a proposed new geological age marking the planetary impact of humanity, is no longer a newcomer to the field of International Relations (IR). Several scholars have recognised the value, as well as the danger, of the Anthropocene for theorising international relations. This article focuses on the existentialist questions and ideas derived from IR’s engagement with the Anthropocene
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Indigenous resistance at the frontiers of accumulation: Challenging the coloniality of space in International Relations Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Chris Hesketh
Latin America has long been subjected to colonial development that has negated Indigenous territory. In the present conjuncture, the region is home to the largest volume of environmental conflicts in the world. These conflicts are intrinsically connected to the wider model of neo-extractivist development that has been embraced throughout the continent since the early 2000s. Indigenous communities have
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Actors, activities, and forms of authority in the IPCC Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Hannah Hughes
Scholarship on global environmental assessments call for these organisations to become more reflexive to address challenges around participation, inclusivity of perspectives, and responsivity to the policy domains they inform. However, there has been less call for reflexivity in IPCC scholarship or closer examination of how routine concepts condition scholarly understanding by focusing on science and
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Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Evaleila Pesaran
This article explores how relations of both domination and resistance have been involved in the constitution of international hierarchies. Focusing on events arising from the Persian government’s 1932 cancellation of the D’Arcy oil concession, it argues that while Western-dominated international hierarchies have proved resilient, some aspects of these hierarchical relationships have been altered by
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Oh help! Oh no! The international politics of The Gruffalo: Children’s picturebooks and world politics Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Lee Jarvis, Nick Robinson
The article explores the complicity of children’s picturebooks in the construction and critique of world politics. Focusing on The Gruffalo, it argues that this spectacularly successful book: (1) stories the international as a pessimistic, anarchical world populated by self-interested, survival-seekers; (2) disrupts this reading and its assumptions through evocation of the social production of threat;
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Rethinking international intervention through coeval engagement: Non-formal youth education and the politics of improvement Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Katarina Kušić
After important critiques highlighted that studies of peacebuilding and statebuilding tend to bypass people living the consequences of intervention, scholars moved to include local experiences and subjects into knowledge production. This article builds upon these efforts by identifying and then furthering their common goal of coeval engagement. Coeval engagement implies encountering interlocutors as
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Creating colonisable land: Cartography, ‘blank spaces’, and imaginaries of empire in nineteenth-century Germany Review of International Studies (IF 2.906) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Zeynep Gülşah Çapan, Filipe dos Reis
The social sciences and humanities in general and International Relations (IR) specifically are organised around what has been called ‘analytic bifurcation’. Analytic bifurcations artificially structure and divide analytic spaces into, for example, Europe/non-Europe, inside/outside, state/empire, and metropole/colony. Recently, these bifurcations have been problematised within IR and adjacent fields