{"title":"Beyond IR? Relationality, complementarity and entangled systems: response to Shih Chih-yu","authors":"K. M. Fierke","doi":"10.1057/s41311-024-00596-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-024-00596-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141647222","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":"The mission of relational IR and the translation of the Chinese relational school","authors":"Chih-yu Shih","doi":"10.1057/s41311-024-00593-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-024-00593-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141664026","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":"Sino-American competition since 2017: is there a U.S. foreign policy consensus and continuity on China?","authors":"Humayun Javed","doi":"10.1057/s41311-024-00588-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-024-00588-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141669515","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":"IPR forum on Chih-yu Shih’s intervention on the relational turn in IR","authors":"Pinar Bilgin","doi":"10.1057/s41311-024-00595-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-024-00595-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I read Shih’s intervention as an invitation to pay attention to relationality in not only ontological but also epistemological terms. I begin by observing that even those bodies of scholarship that focus on relationality are not always aware of our connectedness in terms of the production of ideas and knowledge about how the world works. It is essential, I argue, that studying the ways in which we are connected does not remain focused purely on material usurpation (historical materialism) or self-other relations (feminism, post-structuralism) but also encompasses the production of ideas and knowledge. Brought into an IR discussion, this is about the production of our ideas and knowledge about how the world works, which is best captured by Edward Said’ distinction between ‘origin’ versus ‘beginning’ of ideas. Whereas looking for the ‘origin’ of ideas assumes a singular source, an exploration of ‘beginnings’ takes as its starting point the eventuality that there exist multiple sources across time and space, and focuses on the study of relations of give-and-take and learning between world’s peoples.</p>","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141572576","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":"Unintended experiment: capitalism and the history of education in colonial Hong Kong, 1842–1945","authors":"Florin-Stefan Morar","doi":"10.1057/s41311-024-00586-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-024-00586-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141669442","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":"Brazilian failures to consolidate a domestic nuclear industry: the role of science and technology policies","authors":"João Paulo Nicolini Gabriel, Dawisson Belém Lopes","doi":"10.1057/s41311-024-00590-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-024-00590-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article proposes an alternative domestic-level explanation as to <i>why has Brazil not developed a robust nuclear industry like India if both countries departed from similar diplomatic positions</i>. The existing literature focuses mainly on diplomatic or geopolitical topics to address this puzzle. This research endeavor undertakes an inquiry into the intricacies of the matter through the application of Hymans' hypothesis, which delves into the contextual milieu within which scientists operate. This entails an exploration of how policymakers lend their support to scientific and technological mechanisms, thereby steering them toward the realization of their envisioned objectives. Employing a qualitative research paradigm, the findings of this study pivot upon insights gleaned from semi-structured interviews and primary source materials. The present scholarly article conducts an in-depth examination centered on the realm of Brazilian nuclear policy, with India serving as an illustrative shadow case. Notably, India is emblematic of a nation wherein scientists have aptly navigated the requisite conditions to propel the advancement of the nuclear industry. The discourse contends that the diminished influence of scientists in the policymaking continuum, coupled with the dearth of investments in science, technology, and innovation, stand as pivotal considerations for comprehending the setbacks witnessed within Brazil's pursuit of nuclear autonomy.</p>","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141577864","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":"International LGBTQ+ politics today: moving beyond ‘crises’?","authors":"Manuela L. Picq, Markus Thiel","doi":"10.1057/s41311-024-00587-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-024-00587-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While the discipline of IR has expanded its inquiry into LGBTQ+ politics, it is still missing an analysis of LGBTQ+ issues in the globalized ‘risk society’ in which crises are not exceptional but increasingly normalized and performatively manipulated. The various risks, threats and crises for LGBTQ+ people are embedded in a globally networked, accelerated interdependence characterized by neoliberal modernity, which produces differential challenges for LGBTQ+ rights promotion in the Global South and the Global North. This introduction to the special issue fills this knowledge gap by offering a novel conceptualization of the political risks and threats as well as the activist and governance responses to real and imagined crises in diverse domestic, regional and transnational settings. The introduction sets the stage for various contributions that draw on differing IR conceptualizations of crisis to investigate how the apparent (new) ‘normal’ of political, economic, environmental, health and other crises over past years have impacted LGBTQ+ politics. We show how LGBTQ+ advocacy politics responded to such challenges, highlighting how LGBTQ+ activists have become skillful norm entrepreneurs in domestic settings and mediators in rights promotion efforts between the Global North and South.</p>","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141547265","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":"Virtually (non)existent? The role of digital media in Russian LGBTQ+ activism","authors":"Radzhana Buyantueva","doi":"10.1057/s41311-024-00592-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-024-00592-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over the last two decades, LGBTQ+ individuals in Russia have been using digital media to communicate and mobilize, making up for their lack of representation in mainstream media. However, the government has strengthened its control over the internet to reinforce authoritarianism, traditionalism, and anti-Westernism, using queerphobia to target online sources of ‘LGBTQ+ propaganda.’ This article explores the important role of digital media in Russian LGBTQ+ activism and how activists deal with issues of community and visibility in the face of growing authoritarian control. Russian LGBTQ+ activists face the challenges of balancing safety, visibility, and belonging. To make the most impact, they use creative strategies and international digital media, utilizing delocalized visibility to achieve belonging without compromising their safety.</p>","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141514237","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":"The science of world order","authors":"Ian Hurd","doi":"10.1057/s41311-024-00579-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-024-00579-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>“The science of international politics is in its infancy.” E.H. Carr opened <i>The Twenty Years’ Crisis</i> with a tone both hopeful and lamenting. He looked forward to scholarship that would identify the driving forces behind peace, war, and disorder and help policymakers avoid the mistakes of the past. Today, the scientific study of international order thrives among scholars who share Carr's faith that behind the complexity in world politics lie consistent mechanical forces that generate macro outcomes. The scientific literature on the causes of world order searches for evidence of this machinery in the patterns of international history. I explore this literature and find that the operationalization of order as a dependent variable leads to a depoliticized conception of order. When order is seen as a contested proposition rather than an objective, mechanical arrangement, then the scientific approach quickly hits a dead-end. In this domain of inquiry, the methods of science impede the substantive study of politics. The contradiction between concept and methods leads me to suggest an alternative research agenda that centers world-order scholarship on contestation and politics rather than mechanical relations.</p>","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501690","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":"Un-siloing securitization: an intersectional intervention","authors":"Alexandria Innes","doi":"10.1057/s41311-024-00584-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-024-00584-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research reflects on how securitization works as a structure of power, or as a vehicle through which extant power structures (nationalism, race, gender, class, (dis)ability) are operationalised. I attend to the relationships between three thematic areas of securitization: immigration, health, and violence against women. I examine where securitization theory secures the state while calcifying the boundaries of who belongs to the state, ignoring or actively banishing marginalised and contested identities that do not form part of the audience that co-constitutes security and are obscured within the society for which security is made. The power structures guiding securitization narratives produce a racist, gendered, and classed interpretation of society in which violence against ‘outsiders’ or those who are only partially inside is endemic. This research remodels securitization theory as a tool through which researchers can expose the continuum of lived realities of violence and insecurity that are exacerbated by securitizing processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":46593,"journal":{"name":"International Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501788","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}