Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2021.1879573
G. Gallarotti
ABSTRACT This article traces how the major paradigms in international relations have viewed power over the past 40 years. It argues that theorizing in the 1970s began a bifurcation that served to split the vison of power between two extremes: a hard-power pole on one side (Realism) and a soft-power pole on the other (Neoliberalism and Constructivism). It further argues that scholars who have studied international power have merely been engaged in hovering around the mean, and have always embraced the belief that power was not a binary concept. Rather than looking to the theoretical poles for the true face of international power, scholars are best off embracing a smarter middle or Cosmopolitan view of power.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2021.1876997
K. Dowding
ABSTRACT The major problems for complex multi-dimensional social science concepts is incoherence, often hidden by the fact that they are also vague. Analytically, precisifying can demonstrate we have incompatible intuitions about the meaning of complex normative terms. Simple vague terms can be precisified with ‘coding decisions’. Vagueness differs from ambiguity. Ambiguity occurs when a term is used to mean two quite different things and can be handled by the subscript gambit. Power is neither vague nor incoherent. We can identify a simple sense underlying all accounts of ‘power’. Ambiguous usage concerns the extension to which the simple term is applied.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2021.1878409
J. Gaventa
ABSTRACT This article reviews longstanding debates about the relationship between power over and power to – often posed as the tension between domination and emancipation. It then turns to several frameworks which integrate these approaches to inform strategies for social action. In particular, it focuses on recent empirical studies which apply one such framework, the ‘powercube’, to glean insights into how social actors navigate across multiple forms, spaces and levels of power. In so doing, we gain clues into how relatively powerless groups develop the capacities for agency and action which challenge domination and in turn give new possibilities for emancipation.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2021.1876999
S. Clegg, M. Berti
ABSTRACT In the form of an interview between two colleagues, this paper explores 50 years of power theorizing by Stewart Clegg, from his early doctoral days to the present day. The origins of his approach to power in a combination of structuralism, Wittgenstein and ethnomethodology are explored. The background to his early work, whose empirics were based on the analysis of conversational materials, are outlined, as well as how it became a publication. The rationale and context of subsequent significant contributions to the power debate are engaged. Elsewhere, the power debate had moved from Lukes’ three dimensions of power to four dimensions, the provenance of which is critically evaluated. In order to exemplify the practical implications of these theoretical reflections, the conversation goes on to address some current issues associated with the coronavirus pandemic and the relations between democracy and elites.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2021.1877002
V. Ledyaev
ABSTRACT This article identifies and evaluates the main trends and issues in the conceptual analysis of power, their dynamics, and current status. There are several interrelated basic trends in the conceptual analysis of power: conceptual solutions have become more flexible; multidimensional view; synthesis of different approaches; expansion of the concept; blurring the borders between power and non-power. These trends require taking into account a significantly larger amount of empirical data and paying special attention to hidden forms of social interaction. Expansion of the range of power forms increases the difficulties of their systematization, while interpretation and comparison of the outcomes of empirical studies have become more complicated.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2021.1879572
J. Nye
ABSTRACT In this paper, I respond to the editors request that I look back on the concept of soft power that I first published in 1990. I describe my approach to power; explain the origins of the soft power concept in relation to the academic debates in international relations, and respond to several criticisms of the concept. I then discuss coercion and voluntarism illustrated by the concept of sharp power, and conclude by describing the evolution of the concept in relation to policy interests of several countries.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2021.1879571
C. Hayward
ABSTRACT Why does publicity matter for democratic politics? This article challenges the deliberative view of publicity’s democratic value, making the case that publicity matters because it brings together people who stand to one another in relations of power, constraining the powerful to engage politically those whose action they affect, and enabling the oppressed to form new, oppositional identities. It underscores the centrality of the study of power to debates about democracy and shows that answering the question of publicity’s democratic value requires careful power analysis of the sort that contributors to this special issue have developed over the past quarter century.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/2158379x.2020.1828759
Carol Daniel Kasbari, Stellan Vinthagen
ABSTRACT We evaluate existing case studies of ‘everyday forms of resistance’ and explore the possibilities for a systematic research on its political impacts. Due to its elusive nature, the impact of this less visible resistance has rarely been studied. We only find single case studies that make references to varied outcomes in a particular context. Main theorists within the field do suggest a loose hypothesis of ‘cumulative’ effects in which (thousands of) individual acts can have a significant impact over time, with triggered mobilization of ‘scale shifts’ into public mass actions. Our exploration points to a potential for establishing knowledge of immediate outcomes, particularly through comparative case studies.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/2158379x.2020.1830345
J. O’Brien
ABSTRACT Rosa’s concept of ‘resonance’ requires greater consideration of the tensions, traps and payoffs that will result from the political programmes and institutions that will have to be developed if the concept is to be protected and promoted. The paper points out the sacrifices of ideals and resort to power and coercion that tends to come with institution building and political action, and that can warp to absurdity foundational radiant ideals. Lessons from past attempts at re-charismatisation need to be incorporated into resonance theory through a fuller historical sociological account of comparable historical movements to promote ethical ideals. .
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Pub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/2158379x.2020.1828758
Kieran Keohane
ABSTRACT This paper attempts to attune to the musical theme in Hartmut Rosa’s Resonance, not in the sense of singing from the same sheet but in a spirit of jamming and improvising, developing a fugue. Music, something close to Hartmut Rosa’s heart, grounds us; and simultaneously, music, like all works of art, originated in the service of magical-religious ritual, and the aura of the sacred is still essential to secularized ritual. Music springs from anthropologically deep-seated needs, and music transports us towards a higher, spiritual plane of ideals. How Resonance may help us to respond to dissonance caused by the loss of grounds and horizons is attended to in the case of the EU’s anthem.
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