Pub Date : 2022-11-14DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2145180
O. B. Dınçer
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Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2130663
Italo Brandimarte, Martin Kirsch
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Pub Date : 2022-10-09DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2130665
Z. Çapan, J. Grzybowski
Abstract ‘The international’ is the background condition that holds together inquiries of international politics, orders, systems, societies, practices, and so forth. Albeit being usually taken for granted, its foundational function begs the questions of what the international actually is or, instead, what conceptualisations of the international imply, project, and do. Periodic discussions in International Relations (IR) about the international as the subject matter of the field routinely revolve around attempts to fix its definition, to consciously escape it, or to return to a pragmatic approach of using rather than questioning the concept of the international. In bringing the international from the background to the fore, this Special Section investigates explicit and implicit conceptualisations of the international, and their implications. It does so in a variety of ways and areas. The special section focuses on dynamics of reification and reflection, on how the ‘international’ is opposed to the ‘transnational’ or ‘the world’, how it is denied or seemingly superseded, and how it yet retains its conceptual significance.
{"title":"(Re-)conceptualising the international: introduction to the special section","authors":"Z. Çapan, J. Grzybowski","doi":"10.1080/09557571.2022.2130665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2022.2130665","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract ‘The international’ is the background condition that holds together inquiries of international politics, orders, systems, societies, practices, and so forth. Albeit being usually taken for granted, its foundational function begs the questions of what the international actually is or, instead, what conceptualisations of the international imply, project, and do. Periodic discussions in International Relations (IR) about the international as the subject matter of the field routinely revolve around attempts to fix its definition, to consciously escape it, or to return to a pragmatic approach of using rather than questioning the concept of the international. In bringing the international from the background to the fore, this Special Section investigates explicit and implicit conceptualisations of the international, and their implications. It does so in a variety of ways and areas. The special section focuses on dynamics of reification and reflection, on how the ‘international’ is opposed to the ‘transnational’ or ‘the world’, how it is denied or seemingly superseded, and how it yet retains its conceptual significance.","PeriodicalId":51580,"journal":{"name":"Cambridge Review of International Affairs","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47835516","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}
Pub Date : 2022-10-04DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2130667
Marius-Ionuț Ghincea
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Pub Date : 2022-10-04DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2130030
David Grealy
Abstract Following his appointment as Foreign Secretary in February 1977, David Owen framed human rights promotion as a guiding principle of British foreign policy. Sensitive to Iran’s significance as a pro-Western power in the Middle East and appreciative of the opportunities that the Shah’s custom provided for British business, Owen would continue to champion human rights promotion as a central pillar of Britain’s international agenda while simultaneously providing support to the Shah’s dictatorship. This article scrutinises Owen’s attempts to rationalise this fundamental contradiction by constructing a ‘morality of compromise’ which drew inspiration, inter alia, from the value pluralism espoused by the philosopher Isaiah Berlin. In so doing, analysis not only complements and builds upon existing coverage of Anglo-Iranian relations and the marginalisation of human rights concerns therein; it also highlights the importance of moral psychology and its role in shaping ethical foreign policymaking at an individual level.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-04DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2130666
Abdulaziz A. Alotaibi
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Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2126746
Thomas Kwasi Tieku, Jarle Trondal, Stefan Gänzle
Although international organisations (IOs) are created by governments, their international public administrations (IPAs) have succeeded in ring-fencing their resources, and policymaking from direct intervention by member states. Research shows that international civil servants are best able to protect their autonomy when embedded in large and well-resourced IPAs. Staff in large IOs use their huge size, bureaucratic complexities, and different behavioural logics to protect their autonomy and thereby leave a ‘ bureaucratic footprint ’ in international affairs. Whereas the behavioural logics of large IPAs, mostly headquartered in the Global North, are reasonably well-documented, not much has been written on behavioural logics of international civil servants embedded in small secretariats. We seek to address the gap using the African Union Commission (AUC) staff. Drawing insights from organisational theory and mixed research methods, including the first ever comprehensive survey of AUC staff, the study finds that the AUC staff primarily evoke a departmental behavioural logic. In the absence of departmental logics, the preference of AUC staff is to take on supranational, transnational, and lastly intergovernmental persona. The reluctance of AUC staff to evoke intergovernmental logic is surprising given that the AUC is embedded in an intergovernmental governance architecture.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2023.2205684
A. Ghanizadeh
ition as it is found in the West – and create a platform to challenge notions of international responsibilities historically or symbolically attached to the West and to reframe them according to non-Western visions. Finally, the resurgence of populist nationalism in Western countries as a considerable political force presents a challenge to the protection of human rights, due to the will to prioritise narrow nationalistic interests over the promotion of an agenda of global responsibilities. It is also for this reason that Ukraine has had difficulties to find allies in some quarters of the globe where these populist nationalists rose to power. The example of the Russian invasion of Ukraine within the parameters presented by Glanville is just one illustration of how ‘Sharing Responsibility’s argument may enter in a dialogue with the most pressing issues in international politics at the moment, in a more and more politically, economically, ideologically and technologically polarised world, and with the research agenda of IR scholars concerned with a number of issues. One can clearly see that Glanville’s significant contribution to the R2P literature will provide important tools to those interested in researching on topics dealing with the future of R2P, such as the impact of climate change on atrocity prevention, the nexus between the Women, Peace and Security agenda and R2P, and the interface between R2P and peace operations whose doctrine, strategies and practices are going through significant changes at the moment.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-21DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2106822
J. Gaskarth
Abstract Assuming office as UK Foreign Secretary in 2010, William Hague asserted a desire to pursue an ‘activist foreign policy’. Despite studies into Hague’s period in office, the significance of this phrase and its implications for Hague’s diplomacy have been overlooked. This article plugs that gap. It suggests ‘activist foreign policy’ merges two separate and potentially conflicting practices, namely, activism and diplomacy. Using insights from the practice turn, we examine two policies of Hague’s tenure: his promotion of the Prevention of Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI), 2012–2014 and his diplomatic response to the Syria conflict, 2011–2014. Exploring these cases highlights the creative potential of merging practices, but also the extent to which they can conflict in ways that provoke resistance from other participants. The article concludes that policymakers looking to merge practices need to be aware of the underlying logic of behaviours and actions within each practice to transpose them successfully.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-09DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2107328
C. Braun
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