The "UFO Taboo" Is What IR Theorists Make of It: "Sovereignty and the UFO" in Citational Perspective.

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Alternatives (Boulder, Colo.) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Epub Date: 2023-12-02 DOI:10.1177/03043754231219831
Michael P A Murphy
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In 2008, Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall published an article titled "Sovereignty and the UFO," which demonstrated how a UFO taboo in international relations theory upheld an anthropocentric model of sovereignty. At a distance of a decade and a half, this review evaluates the validity of the claim that a UFO taboo exists in international relations, and explores the citational practices that influence the prestige economy of the field. The article employs a methodology of interpretive scientometrics informed by methodological debates in political science and international, as well as theoretical debates in actor-network theory. After testing the claim of the UFO taboo in a comparative perspective, the article investigates the strategies of association (weak and strong) present in the citations of "Sovereignty and the UFO." In addition to a revaluation of core claims in an often-read but less-often-cited article in international relations theory, this article provides important insights into how citation works in the discipline of international relations.

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UFO禁忌 "是国际关系理论家的臆想:公民视角下的 "主权与 UFO"。
2008 年,亚历山大-温特(Alexander Wendt)和雷蒙德-杜瓦尔(Raymond Duvall)发表了一篇题为《主权与不明飞行物》("Sovereignty and the UFO")的文章,论证了国际关系理论中的不明飞行物禁忌是如何维护人类中心主义的主权模式的。时隔十五年,这篇评论对国际关系中存在 UFO 禁忌这一说法的有效性进行了评估,并探讨了影响该领域声望经济的引用实践。文章采用了解释性科学计量学的方法,并借鉴了政治学和国际关系学的方法论辩论,以及行为者网络理论的理论辩论。在从比较的角度检验了 UFO 禁忌的主张之后,文章研究了 "主权与 UFO "引文中的关联策略(弱关联和强关联)。除了对国际关系理论中一篇常读但较少被引用的文章的核心主张进行重新评估外,本文还对国际关系学科中的引文如何发挥作用提供了重要见解。
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