Towards Allyship in Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the European Union's Global Role

IF 3.3 1区 社会学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Dimitris Bouris, Nora Fisher-Onar, Daniela Verena Huber
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This special issue (SI) foregrounds critical perspectives in studying the EU's global role, acknowledging their historical marginalisation within scholarship dominated by mainstream approaches. The project is theoretical with significant normative and practical implications, that is, for activism and policy-making. Our primary goal is to bring critical approaches into conversation, exploring their intersections, complementarities, but also creative tensions. A further goal is to consider prospects and challenges when it comes to engaging mainstream approaches. Towards these ends, in this introduction, we propose a novel prism onto international relations (IR) and its intersection with EU studies – an intervention picked up in rich, trans/inter-disciplinary perspective by the contributors to this SI. This prism is allyship which we theorise as a co-constitutive, multi-directional, relational and ever-unfolding transformative journey. Normatively and practically, our proposal of allyship is motivated by the challenge of persistent exclusion and violence towards diversity, and the growing backlash faced by all critical approaches to international affairs. At the same time, we probe possibilities for listening better across traditions, critical and mainstream alike, rather than succumbing to the roars of our respective echo chambers. Our perhaps modest but timely goal is to ‘fail better’ when it comes to understanding the multitude of ways that global politics, and the EU's role therein, can be read, studied and pursued.

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走向多元化的盟友关系?欧盟全球角色的批判性视角
本特刊(SI)展望了研究欧盟全球角色的关键观点,承认他们在主流方法主导的学术研究中的历史边缘化。该项目是理论性的,具有重要的规范和实践意义,即对行动主义和政策制定。我们的主要目标是将批判性的方法引入对话,探索它们的交叉点、互补性,以及创造性的紧张关系。进一步的目标是在涉及主流方法时考虑前景和挑战。为了达到这些目的,在本引言中,我们提出了一个新的棱镜来观察国际关系(IR)及其与欧盟研究的交集——这是本SI的贡献者从丰富的、跨/跨学科的角度进行的干预。这个棱镜就是同盟关系,我们将其理论化为一个共同构成的、多向的、相互关联的、不断展开的变革之旅。在规范和实践方面,我们的结盟提议的动机是对多样性的持续排斥和暴力的挑战,以及对国际事务的所有关键做法所面临的日益强烈的反对。与此同时,我们探索更好地倾听不同传统的可能性,无论是批判性的还是主流的,而不是屈服于各自回音室的咆哮。当涉及到理解全球政治和欧盟在其中的角色的多种方式时,我们的目标可能是适度但及时的“更好地失败”。
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