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Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes 在霸权之外,世界秩序就是统治:伊朗的绿色运动和核制裁制度
IF 1.6 3区 社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/00471178231151908
Shabnam J Holliday
Contributing to neo-Gramscian IR and debates regarding world order, this article puts forward Gramsci’s domination as a framework for better understanding the dynamics of a so-called ‘western liberal order’. It shows how Gramsci can be used to explore the power relations of world order that moves beyond Eurocentrism by highlighting the agency of the ‘non-West’ or ‘Global South’. In so doing, it illustrates the contradictions of a liberal world order. To make its case, it examines the relationship between Iran’s Green Movement, and the EU, US and UN sanctions regimes imposed on Iran in response to its nuclear programme. It is argued that domination, rather than hegemony, allows for a better understanding of the power relations in this case.
本文为新葛兰西的国际关系和关于世界秩序的辩论做出了贡献,提出葛兰西的统治作为更好地理解所谓“西方自由秩序”动态的框架。它展示了葛兰西如何通过强调“非西方”或“全球南方”的作用,来探索超越欧洲中心主义的世界秩序的权力关系。在这样做的过程中,它说明了自由世界秩序的矛盾。为了证明自己的观点,本书考察了伊朗绿色运动(Green Movement)与欧盟(EU)、美国和联合国(UN)针对伊朗核计划实施的制裁制度之间的关系。有人认为,在这种情况下,统治,而不是霸权,可以更好地理解权力关系。
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The purpose of military force and the Obama doctrine: no fighting for face 军事力量和奥巴马主义的目的是:不为面子而战
IF 1.6 3区 社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/00471178231151907
Payam Ghalehdar
The scholarly debate about the Obama doctrine has focused on the extent of military force in Obama’s foreign policy. Offering both a novel definition of presidential doctrines and a reinterpretation of the Obama doctrine, this article shifts the focus from the extent to the purpose of force. More specifically, it claims that the Obama doctrine is better described as a general unwillingness to fight for a reputation for resolve. Unlike most of his predecessors, Obama did not consider the US military as a tool for projecting firmness. Instead, his decisions concerning the use of force were dominated by material considerations, be it in limited or expansive military operations. To illustrate Obama’s refusal to fight for face, the article examines three prominent decision points during the Obama presidency – the 2009 surge in Afghanistan, the 2011 intervention in Libya, and Obama’s reaction to the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons in 2013.
关于奥巴马主义的学术辩论集中在奥巴马外交政策中军事力量的程度上。本文提出了对总统主义的新定义和对奥巴马主义的重新解释,将焦点从武力的范围转移到目的上。更具体地说,它声称奥巴马主义更应该被描述为一种普遍不愿为决心而战的声誉。与他的大多数前任不同,奥巴马不认为美国军队是展示坚定立场的工具。相反,他关于使用武力的决定主要是出于物质考虑,无论是在有限的还是广泛的军事行动中。为了说明奥巴马拒绝为面子而战,这篇文章考察了奥巴马总统任期内的三个重要决策点——2009年向阿富汗增兵,2011年对利比亚的干预,以及2013年奥巴马对叙利亚政权使用化学武器的反应。
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Anxiety, humour and (geo)politics: warfare by other memes 焦虑、幽默和(地缘)政治:其他模因引发的战争
IF 1.6 3区 社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/00471178231151561
Christopher S. Browning, J. Brassett
Humour is usually overlooked in analyses of international politics, this despite its growing prevalence and circulation in an increasingly mediatised world, with this neglect also evident in the growing literature on ontological security and anxiety in IR. Humour, though, needs to be taken seriously, crossing as it does the high-low politics divide and performing a variety of functions. In the context of the Covid pandemic we argue that the link between humour and anxiety has been evident in three notable respects: (i) functioning as a (sometimes problematic) form of stress relief at the level of everyday practices of anxiety management, (ii) working to reaffirm biographical narratives of (national) community and status and (iii) most significantly for IR, as a form of anxiety geopolitics.
在国际政治分析中,幽默通常被忽视,尽管它在日益中介化的世界中日益流行和流通,这种忽视在越来越多的关于IR的本体论安全和焦虑的文献中也很明显。然而,幽默需要被认真对待,因为它跨越了高低政治的鸿沟,并发挥了多种功能。在Covid大流行的背景下,我们认为幽默与焦虑之间的联系在三个值得注意的方面是显而易见的:(i)在焦虑管理的日常实践层面上作为一种(有时是有问题的)压力缓解形式,(ii)致力于重申(国家)社区和地位的传记叙事,以及(iii)最重要的是,作为焦虑地缘政治的一种形式。
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COVID-19: uncertainty in a mood of anxiety COVID-19:焦虑情绪中的不确定性
3区 社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2023-01-17 DOI: 10.1177/00471178221149636
Bahar Rumelili
This contribution to the Forum, Anxiety and possibility: the many future(s) of COVID-19, develops a conception of uncertainty as constituted by cognitive (awareness of possibilities) and affective (mood in which possibility is encountered) dimensions. Based on this conception, it is suggested that the COVID-19 crisis has led to a qualitative leap in our already growing sense of uncertainty, both accentuating our awareness of possibilities that are unforeseen, and rendering us attuned to the world in anxiety rather than fear.
《焦虑和可能性:2019冠状病毒病的许多未来》论坛提出了一个不确定性的概念,由认知(对可能性的认识)和情感(遇到可能性时的情绪)两个维度构成。基于这一概念,我们认为,COVID-19危机使我们本已日益增长的不确定感有了质的飞跃,既增强了我们对不可预见的可能性的认识,又使我们在焦虑而不是恐惧中适应世界。
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No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis 没有免费捐赠这回事吗?核武器政策分析中的研究经费和利益冲突
IF 1.6 3区 社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2022-12-22 DOI: 10.1177/00471178221140000
Kjølv Egeland, Benoît Pelopidas
Numerous scholars have in recent years concluded that the field of nuclear weapons policy analysis is plagued by widespread self-censorship, conformism, and enduring disconnects between accepted knowledge and available evidence. It has been hypothesized that this tendency is fostered in part by many analysts’ reliance on funding from donors with interests in the perpetuation of the existing nuclear order. In this article, we probe this hypothesis by investigating the financial links between foreign policy think tanks, on the one hand, and nuclear defence contractors and governments that espouse nuclear deterrence strategies, on the other. Relying on semi-structured interviews and a survey of the funding sources of 45 of the world’s top think tanks, we find, first, that effectively all think tanks in the sample accepted funding from nuclear vested interests and, second, that such ‘stakeholder funding’ has real effects on intellectual freedom. Given the widely-held view that democracy relies on intellectual independence, this finding calls for a serious debate about conflicts of interest in foreign policy analysis generally and nuclear policy analysis specifically.
近年来,许多学者得出结论,核武器政策分析领域受到广泛的自我审查、因循守旧以及公认的知识与现有证据之间长期脱节的困扰。据推测,这种趋势的部分原因是,许多分析人士依赖于那些希望维持现有核秩序的捐助者的资助。在本文中,我们通过调查外交政策智库与支持核威慑战略的核防御承包商和政府之间的财务联系来探讨这一假设。依靠半结构化访谈和对45家世界顶级智库资金来源的调查,我们发现,首先,样本中的所有智库实际上都接受了来自核既得利益集团的资金,其次,这种“利益相关者资金”对知识自由有实际影响。鉴于民主依赖于知识独立的广泛观点,这一发现要求对外交政策分析中的利益冲突进行严肃的辩论,特别是核政策分析。
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Chasing gender equality norms: the robustness of sexual and reproductive health and rights 追求两性平等规范:性健康和生殖健康及权利的坚固性
IF 1.6 3区 社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2022-12-08 DOI: 10.1177/00471178221136994
Esther Barbé, Diego Badell
This article studies Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) at the United Nations (UN). SRHR, a gender equality norm that applies human rights to sexuality and reproduction, have traditionally been supported by a network of actors led by the United States (US) and the European Union. Nevertheless, a rival network has contested SRHR since their conception in the early 1990s. We study the robustness of SRHR in five UN fora between 2009 and 2020, focusing on actor constellations, productive power and norm concordance. Between 2009 and 2016, the normative status quo was maintained, except in the Human Rights Council and the Security Council. In 2017, the US joined the network of rivals and accelerated the norm’s weakening in the Security Council and the Commission on Population and Development. However, to weaken or strengthen the norm further, both networks see a need to address SRHR outside the UN.
本文研究联合国(UN)的性健康和生殖健康与权利(SRHR)。性健康和生殖权利是一项将人权适用于性和生殖的性别平等规范,传统上得到了以美国和欧洲联盟为首的行动者网络的支持。然而,自上世纪90年代初SRHR的概念提出以来,一个竞争网络就一直在争夺它。我们研究了2009年至2020年间五个联合国论坛中SRHR的稳健性,重点关注行动者星座、生产力和规范一致性。2009年至2016年期间,除人权理事会和安全理事会外,其他机构维持了规范现状。2017年,美国加入了竞争对手的行列,加速了这一准则在安理会和人口与发展委员会中的削弱。然而,为了进一步削弱或加强规范,两个网络都认为有必要在联合国之外解决SRHR问题。
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Twinning for solidarity: building affective communities in the aftermath of the Nicaraguan Revolution 结对促进团结:尼加拉瓜革命后建立有情感的社区
IF 1.6 3区 社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2022-12-07 DOI: 10.1177/00471178221141603
H. Ryan
In the British popular imagination, ‘twinning’ is perhaps most commonly associated with mayoral delegations, civic ceremonies and the post-war peacebuilding project in Europe. However, the model and practice of twinning has also been utilised to develop an impressive array of political, economic and cultural relationships that connect geographically remote communities and institutions all across the globe. Among these relationships are a number of twinnings that have emerged as a part of wider movements to extend political solidarity to peoples and communities facing forms of tyranny and persecution. Despite the renewed interest in the politics and practice of solidarity, ‘twinning for solidarity’ has been scarcely addressed in academic research to date. This paper seeks to redirect the scholarly gaze towards this phenomenon by taking a closer look at transnational relationships that were forged across British and Nicaraguan localities in the aftermath of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution. Building on an empirical base of research undertaken over 3 years, it promises to (a) trace why and how ‘twinning’ emerged within the broader repertoire of solidarity initiatives at this time; and (b) explore just what twinning has and might yet achieve in the particular context of political solidarity.
在英国大众的想象中,“双胞胎”可能最常与市长代表团、公民仪式和战后欧洲和平建设项目联系在一起。然而,结对的模式和实践也被用来发展一系列令人印象深刻的政治、经济和文化关系,这些关系连接了全球各地地理上遥远的社区和机构。在这些关系中有一些孪生兄弟关系,它们作为向面临各种形式的暴政和迫害的人民和社区提供政治团结的更广泛运动的一部分而出现。尽管对团结的政治和实践重新产生了兴趣,但迄今为止,在学术研究中几乎没有涉及“团结的结对”。本文试图通过对1979年桑地诺革命后在英国和尼加拉瓜地区建立的跨国关系进行更深入的研究,将学者的目光转向这一现象。在三年多来开展的实证研究基础上,它承诺(a)追踪“孪生”为何以及如何在目前更广泛的团结倡议中出现;(b)探索结对在政治团结的特定背景下已经取得和可能取得的成就。
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Realism, reckless states, and natural selection 现实主义,不计后果的国家和自然选择
IF 1.6 3区 社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2022-12-04 DOI: 10.1177/00471178221136993
Matthew Rendall
Why is daredevil aggression like Russia’s war on Ukraine such an important factor in world politics? Neither offensive nor defensive realists give a fully satisfactory answer. This paper maintains that the problem lies in their shared assumption that states pursue security. Tracing neorealism’s roots in evolutionary economics, and hence indirectly in biological theories of natural selection, I argue that many policies are compatible with state survival. What is hard is surviving as a great power. States that rise to that rank, and remain there, behave as if they sought to maximize their influence, not their security. This Darwinian competition selects in favor of states with expansionist institutions and ideologies. Failing to recognize this phenomenon risks conferring a spurious legitimacy on imperialism. At the same time, neorealists have also committed a fallacy familiar to biologists: assuming that traits enhancing group fitness are selected even when they diminish fitness in intragroup competition. Whereas interstate competition selects in great powers for traits that promote influence-maximization, with the spread of democracy, intrastate competition increasingly selects for security-seeking. Yet the former process sometimes still dominates the latter, above all in authoritarian great powers.
为什么像俄罗斯对乌克兰的战争这样鲁莽的侵略在世界政治中如此重要?无论是进攻型现实主义者还是防御型现实主义者,都没有给出一个完全令人满意的答案。本文认为,问题在于他们都认为国家追求安全。追溯新现实主义在进化经济学中的根源,从而间接地在自然选择的生物学理论中,我认为许多政策与国家生存是相容的。难的是作为一个大国生存下来。那些上升到这一地位并保持这一地位的国家,表现得好像是在寻求最大限度地扩大自己的影响力,而不是谋求自身的安全。这种达尔文式的竞争有利于拥有扩张主义制度和意识形态的国家。如果不能认识到这一现象,就有可能给帝国主义赋予虚假的合法性。与此同时,新现实主义者也犯了一个生物学家所熟悉的错误:假设提高群体适应性的特征即使在群体内部竞争中降低适应性时也会被选择。国家间竞争在大国中选择促进影响力最大化的特征,而随着民主的传播,国家内部竞争越来越多地选择寻求安全的特征。然而,前一种进程有时仍主导着后一种进程,尤其是在专制大国。
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Mission saves us all: Great Russia and Global Britain dealing with ontological insecurity 使命拯救了我们所有人:大俄罗斯和全球化的英国应对本体论上的不安全感
IF 1.6 3区 社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/00471178221140093
A. Curanović, Piotr Szymanski
In this paper we analyse a situation wherein the political establishments of Russia and the United Kingdom, in the face of ontological insecurity, use narratives with messianic overtones in their foreign policies. Although these narratives do not feature prominently in the official discourse, they are nevertheless noticeable and provide a valuable insight into dynamics of national identity. We call them ‘mission narratives’ and interpret their (re)appearance in foreign policy as a reaction to a ‘critical situation’ which undermines the stability of the autobiographical narrative of both countries. Although different in scope and nature, the fall of the USSR and the Brexit referendum both resulted in the status and identity of the two states being questioned. Both countries reacted by emphasising their special role in the world. Referring to mission in foreign policy strengthens a coherent autobiographic narrative which soothes ontological uncertainties.
在本文中,我们分析了俄罗斯和英国的政治机构在面对本体论的不安全感时,在其外交政策中使用带有弥赛亚色彩的叙事的情况。尽管这些叙述在官方话语中并不突出,但它们仍然引人注目,并为民族认同的动态提供了宝贵的见解。我们称它们为“使命叙事”,并将它们在外交政策中的(重新)出现解释为对“危急情况”的反应,这种情况破坏了两国自传式叙事的稳定性。尽管范围和性质不同,但苏联的解体和英国脱欧公投都导致了两个国家的地位和身份受到质疑。两国都强调了自己在世界上的特殊作用。提到外交政策中的使命,加强了连贯的自传叙事,缓解了本体论的不确定性。
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The limits of US national identity: interests and values in US military aid 美国国家认同的局限:美国军事援助中的利益与价值
IF 1.6 3区 社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/00471178221140087
Evan W. Sandlin
According to policymakers, US national values shape US foreign aid policy. However, these national values clash with material interests when policymakers are faced with the decision of whether or not to grant US military aid to countries that do not adhere to US national values but do serve US security and economic interests. To what extent are US national values resilient to clashes with these material interests? This paper hypothesizes that national values are resilient to clashes with interests to the extent to which these values are a salient feature of US national identity. The findings indicate that more prominent values (democracy) are almost impervious to countervailing interests while more tangential values (enterprise and human rights) exhibit different effects on US military aid allocation depending on the security and economic importance of the recipient state.
根据政策制定者的说法,美国的国家价值观影响着美国的对外援助政策。然而,当政策制定者面临是否向不符合美国国家价值观但符合美国安全和经济利益的国家提供美国军事援助的决定时,这些国家价值观与物质利益发生冲突。美国的国家价值观在多大程度上能够抵御与这些物质利益的冲突?本文假设,在某种程度上,国家价值观对利益冲突具有弹性,这些价值观是美国国家认同的一个显著特征。研究结果表明,更突出的价值观(民主)几乎不受反补贴利益的影响,而更次要的价值观(企业和人权)对美国军事援助的分配表现出不同的影响,这取决于受援国的安全和经济重要性。
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