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{"title":"Mimetic rivalry in practice: The case of Kosovo","authors":"Aidan Hehir, C. Lanza","doi":"10.1177/17550882211010201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17550882211010201","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we advance a framework that highlights the relational nature of rivalry emergence and its ongoing manifestations, before illustrating this framework in practice through an analysis of the rivalry between Serbs and Albanians over the issue of Kosovo. We argue that the locus of rivalry lies in the inherently social character of human desire and the destructive reciprocity elicited by human mimetic behaviour. The manner in which rivals portray their plight, and legitimise their cause, is, we argue, a function of their desire to acquire that which they imagine the other has. As such, rather than adhering to the conventional view that rivalries are characterised by difference, we argue that rivals share a set of common goals/desires. Thus, though rivalries are characterised by mutual antipathy – and the attendant devotion to constructing self-serving myths – this is but a superficial manifestation of an underlying mimetic dynamic. To focus only on how myths are constructed and instrumentally employed, is not sufficient when seeking to explain the persistence of rivalries. Rather, we must understand the underlying desires the respective rivals seek to fulfill through the proliferation of these myths if we are to truly understand the nature of the rivalry.","PeriodicalId":44237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Political Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/17550882211010201","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45411178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the global politics of “decency” and “restraint”","authors":"Christopher Peys","doi":"10.1177/17550882211008941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17550882211008941","url":null,"abstract":"This essay offers a review of both Roach’s Decency and Difference: Humanity and the Global Challenge of Identity Politics and Steele’s Restraint in International Politics. Exploring the concept-driven modes of analysis employed in each of these two texts, this essay investigates how Roach and Steele theorize the moral, socio-psychological, and political struggles inherent to the notions of decency and restraint. This review is not only devoted to understanding Roach’s and Steele’s respective arguments about how global politics has been conditioned by the tensions inherent to decency and restraint but, also, to reflecting on how these two scholars suggest we deal—theoretically and practically—with the complexities of these two notions in today’s world. At a time when various forces of indecent, unrestrained behavior have arguably led to an exclusionary politics of identity, rancor, and enmity, Roach’s and Steele’s books demonstrate—conceptually, empirically, and normatively—how we can understand the global politics of decency and restraint, as well as how people(s) around the world can begin to take more dignified steps in a just, democratic direction.","PeriodicalId":44237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Political Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/17550882211008941","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43758661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pufendorf and Leibniz on duties of esteem in diplomatic relations","authors":"A. Blank","doi":"10.1177/17550882211002225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17550882211002225","url":null,"abstract":"The striving for self-worth is recognized as a driving force in international relations; but if self-worth is understood as a function of status in a power hierarchy, this striving often is a source of anxiety and conflict over status. The quasi-international relations within the early modern German Empire have prompted seventeenth-century natural law theorists such as Samuel Pufendorf and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to reflect about this problem. In his De statu imperii Germanici (1667), Pufendorf regards the power differences and dependencies between the Reichsstände to be an expression of the deficits of constitutional structure of the Empire—a structure that, in his view, causes internal division because it leads to distorted practices of esteem between the estates. Against Pufendorf, Leibniz argues De jure suprematus ac legationis (1671) that political actors such as the German princes who are not Electors could fulfill functions under the law of nations such as forming confederations and peace keeping. Incoherently, however, Leibniz excludes less powerful estates such as the Imperial cities and the Hanseatic cities from the ensuing duties of esteem. This shortcoming, in turn, is arguably remedied in Pufendorf’s later considerations concerning duties of esteem in diplomatic relations.","PeriodicalId":44237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Political Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/17550882211002225","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49368706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Remarks from the Incoming Editor","authors":"A. Lang","doi":"10.1177/1755088220969716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088220969716","url":null,"abstract":"With this issue, the editorship of the Journal of International Political Theory changes. Since its founding in 2005 as the Politics and Ethics Review, Patrick Hayden has served as the editor. I will now be serving as editor, with Natasha Saunders continuing as the Associate Editor. Natasha and I are very excited to take over the journal, which we believe is one of the most important and innovative journals in the ever-expanding field of scholarly journals in the field of politics broadly defined. In this short editorial, I wish to make three points. First, I want to thank Patrick for founding and running this journal for the past 16 years. He has, quite simply, helped to create a space for those of us working in an area which has been vaguely defined and crosses numerous disciplinary boundaries. While there exist some cognate journals, such as Ethics & International Affairs, JIPT has been a home to articles that not only explore the ethical dimensions of international politics, but also explore what Stephen White called the ‘world-revealing’ aspect of political theory; that is, articles which dig deeper into the theoretical assumptions, historical contexts, and the interconnectedness of practices at the global level (White, 1991). Patrick’s own work demonstrates how to negotiate this space between political theory and international relations. His scholarship on Hannah Arendt and Albert Camus reveal how political theorists can speak to global questions (Hayden, 2009, 2016); how cosmopolitanism and utopianism can be both ‘realist’ and critical, a perspective that those working within disciplinary boundaries often fail to achieve (Hayden, 2005; Hayden and El-Ojeili, 2009); how to use concepts such as friendship and evil to interrogate international dilemmas (Hayden, 2014, 2015); and how to expand upon and develop new insights on human rights (Hayden, 2018; Hayden and Saunders, 2019). Across these and so many other areas, Patrick’s scholarship has been an ideal example of what JIPT has tried to achieve over the years. His leadership of the journal has nurtured and supported many young (and not so young) scholars working in these and other areas, from which the fields of political theory, international relations, and politics more generally have benefitted greatly. Following this editorial, five of","PeriodicalId":44237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Political Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1755088220969716","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47194588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Political friendship: Gardens, bees and Patrick Hayden","authors":"Gabriella Slomp","doi":"10.1177/1755088220972133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088220972133","url":null,"abstract":"There is no doubt in my mind that my friend and colleague Patrick Hayden is a beeresearcher; in this short note I am going to make my case by concentrating on one example: his excellent article on political friendship (Hayden, 2015: 745−764). For sure, in that essay Patrick does not emulate ant-researchers and limit himself to relate thoughts and ideas about friendship exposed by others, nor does he imitate spider-writers and propose a conception of political friendship that neglects 2500 years of thinking about the relationship. Rather, like the Baconian bee, he combines expertise with ingenuity. To begin with, he offers an overview of the terrain that he intends to explore as well as an account of the weather conditions; he notes that recent times have witnessed a warming up of interest in two ideas that have a long history in the western tradition, namely the concepts of ‘friendship’ and ‘recognition’. He points out that there has been ‘little cross-fertilisation’ of the two themes in [international] political theory, and that his aim is ‘to contribute to the project of building conceptual bridges between theories of political friendship and theories of recognition’ (p. 746). As a second step, in search of the nectar of friendship and recognition, Patrick flies over large fields and meadows; he explores Cicero’s hortus, Aquinas’ orchard, Montaigne’s secret backyard, Kant’s landscaping grounds, Hegel’s national park; in all these places, and others, he finds the tendency of describing friendship as a relationship of self and other:","PeriodicalId":44237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Political Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1755088220972133","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65524912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Teaching as Amor Mundi","authors":"Natasha Saunders","doi":"10.1177/1755088220969713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088220969713","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Political Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1755088220969713","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44960552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Remarks from the Outgoing Editor","authors":"Patrick Hayden","doi":"10.1177/1755088220970389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088220970389","url":null,"abstract":"The present issue formally marks the conclusion of my tenure as Editor of the Journal of International Political Theory. When the seeds of JIPT were planted 16 years ago in the guise of a generalist journal of normative political theory called Politics and Ethics Review, I had only an inkling of the existence of the field of international political theory. Although trained as a political philosopher – or, as I prefer for reasons powerfully articulated by Hannah Arendt, as a ‘political theorist’ – my intellectual orientation always gravitated towards matters of an ‘international’ nature (human rights especially have been a constant interest since my undergraduate days). Unfortunately, this orientation did not always fit well with the prevailing research concerns of Anglo-American philosophy and political theory, which were preoccupied with matters of ‘domestic’ politics. Surprisingly (to me at least), at the time there were few scholarly outlets for political theory investigating topics pertaining to international, transnational and world politics. It gradually dawned on me that the generalist journal I had established might be of greater benefit to the discipline as a specialist journal furnishing a dedicated outlet to political theory of this sort. Taking up a new post at the University of St Andrews in 2006 proved to be something of a Damascene moment, then, as I was welcomed into a thriving community of scholars and students who eagerly self-identified as ‘international political theorists’. This moment proved to be the vital catalyst for the metamorphosis of Politics and Ethics Review into Journal of International Political Theory. JIPT made its formal appearance with Edinburgh University Press in April 2008 and subsequently moved to SAGE in January 2014. For me, political theory at its best should be interpreted existentially as a horizonexpanding activity, one which continually seeks to move outward in space and time, pushing boundaries and establishing connections and common ground rather than remaining inwardly fixated on supposedly immutable, isolated monads. It is, to echo Gilles Deleuze, a theoretical sensibility attuned to exteriority rather than interiority and","PeriodicalId":44237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Political Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1755088220970389","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43380421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Of Camus and Rebels","authors":"C. el-Ojeili","doi":"10.1177/1755088220969720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088220969720","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Political Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1755088220969720","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49129119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Patrick Hayden /pætrik heidεn/","authors":"Gurchathen Sanghera","doi":"10.1177/1755088220972134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088220972134","url":null,"abstract":"I first met Hayden in 2007, when I joined the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. Though his humility would prevent him from saying so, he is a formidable intellectual. He has the most amazing ability to take the most complex of ideas and concepts and make these accessible. He has always been a kind, supportive and an approachable colleague. He is someone whose opinion I greatly respect. Over the years, I learnt a lot from Hayden and his scholarship, especially his meticulousness, his eye for detail, his almost clinical precision with the use of language, and the sheer breadth of his knowledge. Even his emails are so well written, they could be submitted as outputs in the REF process! I have been fortunate to get an insight into his approach on a number of occasions. We agreed to read Judith Butler’s Notes Toward a Performative Theory Assembly together. I am pretty sure Hayden got the short end of the stick in this arrangement. I am not ashamed to say that his contributions to the discussions were far more insightful and novel than mine! He effortlessly digested the text and related it to both his and my research in exciting ways. For me, it was fascinating to watch how he approached the task and his methodical analysis of the text. Hayden is generous with his ideas and knowledge too. On another occasion, he kindly agreed to read a draft of paper that I was writing on performative citizenship and young people. His feedback was constructive, insightful, detailed and supportive. He introduced me to the work of Karen Zivi (2012, Making Rights Claims), which added a new","PeriodicalId":44237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Political Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1755088220972134","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42821876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conversations in international political theory","authors":"Kate Schick","doi":"10.1177/1755088220970574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088220970574","url":null,"abstract":"Patrick Hayden has been an incredible mentor to many of us in the international political theory community, both in the United Kingdom and beyond. In founding and editing the Journal of International Political Theory, and the associated conferences early on in his editorship, Patrick created space for a wonderful community of scholars to emerge and linger; it’s been a joy to be part of that community. I think of my interactions with Patrick as being marked by three significant, and extended, conversations: about living in Aotearoa, New Zealand (and Wellington, specifically); around my thesis, which he examined; and around recognition and global politics, on which we co-edited a book. The first real conversation I had with Patrick took place when my partner and I were contemplating applying for academic jobs at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, the institution he had been at prior to joining the University of St Andrews. Patrick’s enthusiasm for Wellington encouraged us to apply for the positions, which we were later offered and accepted (I recall talk of ferries on the harbour and toots in the Mount Victoria tunnel – a local tradition); 12 years later we’re committed Wellingtonians and here for the long haul, and Patrick is retiring from academia to pursue a new life here. The second conversation centred on my PhD thesis, which Patrick examined (with Kimberly Hutchings). His incisive comments – still brilliant on re-reading a decade on – encouraged me to more carefully situate my emerging speculative philosophy in relation to contemporary IR theory and its interlocutors. The third – and most extended – conversation has focused on the politics of recognition and culminated in our co-edited book, Recognition and Global Politics: Critical Encounters between State and World (Hayden and Schick, 2016). Co-editing with Patrick was like taking a master class in editorship: from conception to publication, the entire process was a joy. I look back on this experience as one of being mentored in the editorship process and frequently revisit key aspects of the process as a guide as I co-edit a","PeriodicalId":44237,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Political Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1755088220970574","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44184677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}