Three visions of the global: global international relations, global history, global historical sociology

IF 2.2 1区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI:10.1017/s1752971923000179

Michael Barnett, George Lawson

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Abstract Global international relations (IR) generates space for theoretical expressions drawn from outside the experiences of the modern West. Alongside these demands for theoretical pluralism can be found a concern for widening IR's historical frames of reference. Yet, to date, the relationship between global IR and history is the least developed part of the project's agenda. This article suggests two ways in which this relationship can be strengthened. One draws from global history, shows how transboundary connections and relational dynamics forge the units used by advocates of global IR in their analysis: West and non-West, core and periphery, metropole and colony. The other draws from global historical sociology as it advances the role of power asymmetries for understanding the patterns and entanglements in transboundary connections. Connecting global IR to global history and global historical sociology can help produce a fuller understanding of the interactive connections and asymmetrical entanglements between peoples, places, ideas, and institutions that drive historical development. We illustrate this potential through a brief analysis of the rise of the West. This, in turn, demonstrates the ways in which three visions of the global – global IR, global history, and global historical sociology – can be mutually beneficial.

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三种全球视野:全球国际关系、全球历史、全球历史社会学

全球国际关系(IR)为现代西方经验之外的理论表达提供了空间。除了这些对理论多元化的要求之外，还可以发现对扩大国际关系的历史参考框架的关注。然而，迄今为止，全球国际关系与历史之间的关系是该项目议程中最不发达的部分。本文提出了两种加强这种关系的方法。其中一本书借鉴了全球历史，展示了跨界联系和关系动态如何形成全球国际关系倡导者在分析中使用的单元:西方和非西方、核心和边缘、大都市和殖民地。另一种是从全球历史社会学的角度出发，提出了权力不对称在理解跨界联系的模式和纠葛中的作用。将全球国际关系与全球历史和全球历史社会学联系起来，有助于更全面地理解推动历史发展的民族、地区、思想和制度之间的互动联系和不对称纠缠。我们通过对西方崛起的简要分析来说明这种潜力。这反过来又证明了全球的三种观点——全球国际关系、全球历史和全球历史社会学——可以相互受益。

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期刊介绍： Editorial board International Theory (IT) is a peer reviewed journal which promotes theoretical scholarship about the positive, legal, and normative aspects of world politics respectively. IT is open to theory of absolutely all varieties and from all disciplines, provided it addresses problems of politics, broadly defined and pertains to the international. IT welcomes scholarship that uses evidence from the real world to advance theoretical arguments. However, IT is intended as a forum where scholars can develop theoretical arguments in depth without an expectation of extensive empirical analysis. IT’s over-arching goal is to promote communication and engagement across theoretical and disciplinary traditions. IT puts a premium on contributors’ ability to reach as broad an audience as possible, both in the questions they engage and in their accessibility to other approaches. This might be done by addressing problems that can only be understood by combining multiple disciplinary discourses, like institutional design, or practical ethics; or by addressing phenomena that have broad ramifications, like civilizing processes in world politics, or the evolution of environmental norms. IT is also open to work that remains within one scholarly tradition, although in that case authors must make clear the horizon of their arguments in relation to other theoretical approaches.