{"title":"How Central is Race to International Relations?","authors":"Jack Snyder","doi":"10.1080/09636412.2023.2250718","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While I agree that it is high time for more research on the conceptual and empirical questions of race raised in this special issue, I argue that mainstream approaches including realism and liberalism shed more light on the central mechanisms that drive international politics than do theories that put race in the central position. This is not because mainstream theories ignore identity politics, but because their theories of political identity are more closely tied to the powerful driving mechanisms of the nation-state and social modernization. Mainstream IR has, in recent decades, worked hard to understand the continuing power of nationalism and ethnicity using concepts that can also illuminate the category of race.","PeriodicalId":47478,"journal":{"name":"Security Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"892 - 906"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Security Studies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2023.2250718","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract While I agree that it is high time for more research on the conceptual and empirical questions of race raised in this special issue, I argue that mainstream approaches including realism and liberalism shed more light on the central mechanisms that drive international politics than do theories that put race in the central position. This is not because mainstream theories ignore identity politics, but because their theories of political identity are more closely tied to the powerful driving mechanisms of the nation-state and social modernization. Mainstream IR has, in recent decades, worked hard to understand the continuing power of nationalism and ethnicity using concepts that can also illuminate the category of race.
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Security Studies publishes innovative scholarly manuscripts that make a significant contribution – whether theoretical, empirical, or both – to our understanding of international security. Studies that do not emphasize the causes and consequences of war or the sources and conditions of peace fall outside the journal’s domain. Security Studies features articles that develop, test, and debate theories of international security – that is, articles that address an important research question, display innovation in research, contribute in a novel way to a body of knowledge, and (as appropriate) demonstrate theoretical development with state-of-the art use of appropriate methodological tools. While we encourage authors to discuss the policy implications of their work, articles that are primarily policy-oriented do not fit the journal’s mission. The journal publishes articles that challenge the conventional wisdom in the area of international security studies. Security Studies includes a wide range of topics ranging from nuclear proliferation and deterrence, civil-military relations, strategic culture, ethnic conflicts and their resolution, epidemics and national security, democracy and foreign-policy decision making, developments in qualitative and multi-method research, and the future of security studies.
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