{"title":"Hegemony and the dynamics of power: a Gramscian update for the study of power in IR","authors":"Ivan Bakalov","doi":"10.1057/s41268-023-00321-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-023-00321-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The study of power in IR has produced insightful typologies, but the persisting paradigmatic divisions induce problems that stifle further progress. The fungibility problem concerns the missing links between the categories in the typologies as well as between typologies. The fragmentation problem arises from the difficulties of analysing diffuse agency. This article proposes a closer dialogue with Gramsci’s work and embeds the resulting inputs into a process-centred conceptualisation of power that can accommodate the dialectic analysis of social transformations from the <i>Prison Notebooks</i>. The intellectual exchange engenders an understanding in which different modalities of power can be linked together as mechanisms interfering with each other in an iterative open process. The conundrum of fragmented agency is revisited through the perspective of an integral power process that entangles actor interests and identities. These interventions create opportunities for meaningful interaction between studies into the different faces of power.</p>","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"221 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139757596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aid for taxation and representation? The effect of foreign tax assistance on democracy in the Global South","authors":"","doi":"10.1057/s41268-023-00320-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-023-00320-3","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>Can foreign aid foster democracy? This is a foundational question debated in development studies and donor circles. Within this debate, some scholars argue that aid is detrimental to democratic institutions via an aid curse. The foil to this aid curse, namely that taxation fosters representation, inspires much comparative political economy research. We bring these fields together and approach the aid-democratization and taxation-representation questions through a unique lens: how foreign aid given to assist with tax collection (i.e. tax aid) affects representation. Tax aid is a form of technical assistance associated with increased tax capacity that can be leveraged to assess how such a change impacts democracy. Our statistical estimations indicate that countries receiving tax aid see an improvement in democracy. Survey data analyses show tax aid is associated with increased voting, especially among the middle class, but not changes in government satisfaction. A case illustration of Kenya corroborates our results.</p>","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139374961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complex harms of migration externalisation: EU policy ‘creep’ processes into domestic counterterrorism at the Turkey-Iran border","authors":"Karolina Augustova, Ethem Ilbiz, Helena Carrapico","doi":"10.1057/s41268-023-00319-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-023-00319-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the overlap between European Union migration controls and internal counter-terror measures in the Kurdish populated region at the Turkey-Iran border. It highlights the development of an ‘externalisation creep’ in the context of this overlap. We discuss how the EU’s external measures aimed at people classed as ‘irregular migrants and smugglers’ creep into local internal border security, leading to the prioritisation, on the ground, of measures against people broadly labelled as supporting ‘terrorism’. This development has resulted in the expansion of borderwork, which is associated with unexpected border control outcomes beyond those originally intended by the EU. The article draws upon an ethnographic data collection at the Turkey-Iran border, a geographical area that has seldom featured in EU-supported border controls studies. Our analysis seeks to contribute to the academic literature on externalisation by moving away from an EU-centric perspective, and instead focusing on border governance dynamics that are situated in the local histories and domestic sites of conflict, as understood by diverse border crossing survivors. This approach allows us to foreground how EU migration externalisation co-opts domestic practices in the context of borders with pre-existing forms of insecurity, and targets migrants as well as residents.</p>","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139027774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine","authors":"Olga Burlyuk, Vjosa Musliu","doi":"10.1057/s41268-023-00318-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-023-00318-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":" 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135286449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How old are the first European inter-polity systems? The case for the Bronze Age","authors":"Iver B. Neumann, Håkon Glørstad","doi":"10.1057/s41268-023-00316-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-023-00316-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"227 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135340442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In ‘crisis’ we trust? On (un)intentional knowledge distortion and the exigency of terminological clarity in academic and political discourses on Russia’s war against Ukraine","authors":"Andriy Tyushka","doi":"10.1057/s41268-023-00313-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-023-00313-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"4 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135390886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global dialogues during the Russian invasion of Ukraine","authors":"Kseniya Oksamytna","doi":"10.1057/s41268-023-00315-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-023-00315-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135634211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of citizens’ affective media practices in participatory warfare during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine","authors":"Tetyana Lokot","doi":"10.1057/s41268-023-00317-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-023-00317-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"5 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135773540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The normative security dilemma in making sense of the Kremlin","authors":"Joakim Brattvoll","doi":"10.1057/s41268-023-00312-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-023-00312-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135933794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epistemic superimposition: the war in Ukraine and the poverty of expertise in international relations theory","authors":"Jan Dutkiewicz, Jan Smolenski","doi":"10.1057/s41268-023-00314-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-023-00314-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46698,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Relations and Development","volume":"60 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135271545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}