Global Governance

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Week 13: Assessing GG

Wed, 09 May 2012 17:53:06 -0400

Recommended:

Dingwerth, Klaus, and Philipp Pattberg. “Global Governance as a Perspective on World Politics.” Global Governance 12, no. 2 (2006): 185-203.

Rosenau, James N. “Governance in the Twenty-First Century.” Global Governance 1 (1995): 13.

Stoker, G. “Governance as Theory: Five Propositions.” International Social Science Journal 50, no. 155 (1998): 17-28.

Norms

Wed, 09 May 2012 13:59:05 -0400

Symposium: Interrogating the Use of Norms in International Relations

International Studies Perspectives, Volume 13, Issue 2, May 2012

Oliver North threat-inflates for the next ‘Modern Warfare’: a new Low for the Military-Industrial-Entertainment Complex

Thu, 03 May 2012 13:45:16 -0400

“I don’t want to sound like some boring old dude who doesn’t get this stuff. I like gaming. I waste too much time on it also. I enjoy action movies and FPS’s like Halo; I’ve played Modern Warfare and even Homefront. What unnerves isn’t the thrill of the violence. (That is also morally dubious, of course, but given that it underlines the viewing rush of every action movie ever made, hold that for a moment.) What I find really noticeable and increasingly disturbing is the post-9/11 gleeful depiction of pro-American carnage. 9/11 ‘took the gloves off’ and allowed so many directors - Bay, Milius, Sutherland, the Activision guys - to unleash their chauvinistic, reptilian id, all their inner xenophobia, cruelty, militarism, war-glorifying machismo, and sheer bloody-mindedness. And the Tea-Party loves them for it.”

Duck of Minerva

On Black Studies

Thu, 03 May 2012 13:14:25 -0400

On Black Studies:

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"‘Every state is founded on force,’ said Trotsky at Brest-Litovsk. That is indeed right...."

Wed, 02 May 2012 16:21:42 -0400

“‘Every state is founded on force,’ said Trotsky at Brest-Litovsk. That is indeed right. If no social institutions existed which knew the use of violence, then the concept of ‘state’ would be eliminated, and a condition would emerge that could be designated as ‘anarchy,’ in the specific sense of this word. Of course, force is certainly not the normal or the only means of the state—nobody says that—but force is a means specific to the state. Today the relation between the state and violence is an especially intimate one. In the past, the most varied institutions—beginning with the sib—have known the use of physical force as quite normal. Today, however, we have to say that a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. Note that ‘territory’ is one of the characteristics of the state. Specifically, at the present time, the right to use physical force is ascribed to other institutions or to individuals only to the extent to which the state permits it. The state is considered the sole source of the ‘right’ to use violence. Hence, ‘politics’ for us means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.”

- Max Weber, “Politics as a Vocation”

Week 12: Global Security Assemblages

Wed, 02 May 2012 15:53:00 -0400

Wednesday, May 2

Abrahamsen, Rita, and Michael C. Williams. 2009. “Security Beyond the State: Global Security Assemblages in International Politics.” International Political Sociology 3(1): 1-17.
Leander, Anna. 2005. “The Power to Construct International Security: On the Significance of Private Military Companies.” Millennium 33(3):803-825.

Recommended

Aradau, Claudia and Rens Van Munster. 2007. “Governing Terrorism through Risk: Taking Precautions, (Un)Knowing the Future.” European Journal of International Relations 13(1): 89-115.
Avant, Deborah. 2005.The Market for Force. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Avant, Deborah. 2004. “The Privatization of Security and Change in the Control of Force.” International Studies Perspectives 5(2): 153-157.
Hall, Rodney Bruce and Thomas J. Bierstecker, eds. 2002.The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sending, Ole Jacob, and Iver B. Neumann. 2006. “Governance to Governmentality: Analyzing NGOs, States, and Power.” International Studies Quarterly 50: 651-672.

Week 11: Global Governmentality

Wed, 02 May 2012 15:31:00 -0400

Wednesday, April 25

Larner, Wendy and William Walters, eds. 2004. Global Governmentality: Governing International Spaces. Routledge, pp 1-20.
Lipschutz, Ronnie. 2005. “Power, Politics and Global Civil Society.” Millennium 35(3):747-769.
Kinsella, Helen. 2005. “Securing the Civilian: Sex and Gender in the Laws of War.” In Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall, eds. Power in Global Governance. Cambridge University Press: 249-272.
Neumann, Iver B. and Ole Jacob Sending. 2007. “’The International’ as Governmentality” Millennium 35(3):677-701.

Recommended:

Foucault, Michel. 2003. “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the College De France, 1975-1976. Translated by David Macey. New York: Picador.
Li, Tania 2007. The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics. Durham: Duke University Press.
Lipschutz, Ronnie with James K Rowe. 2005. Globalization, Governmentality
and Global Politics. Routledge.

Week 9: World Systems Theory

Wed, 02 May 2012 15:30:00 -0400

Wednesday, April 11

Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly Silver. 1999. Chaos and Governance in the World System. University of Minnesota Press.
Arrighi, Giovanni. 2005. “Global Governance and Hegemony in the Modern World System.” Ba and Hoffmann, pp 57-71.

Recommended

Sassen, Saska. 1991. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Week 10: Critical Global Political Economy (GPE)

Wed, 02 May 2012 15:30:00 -0400

Wednesday, April 18

• Peterson, V. Spike. 2003. Critical Rewriting of the Global Political Economy. Routledge.

Petition for Religion and IR section at ISA

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:09:32 -0400

Petition for Religion and IR section at ISA

Resources for Graduate Students

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:43:23 -0400

Resources for Graduate Students:

New links!

"Hillz" Clinton Was Always Cool

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:09:00 -0400

"Hillz" Clinton Was Always Cool:

My Favorite ISA Panels

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:32:00 -0400

Storytelling as Political: The Ethics of Personal Narratives

Shapiro, Michael (Chair)
Wibben, Annick (Discussant)

Telling the Tale of Constructivism

Onuf, Nicholas (Chair)
Jackson, Patrick (Discussant)

Kurowska: Realigning Constructivism Through Reflexivity in the Practice of Research on Security
Zarakol: Constructivism and Social Theory: How ‘Social’ Are We Really?
Kessler: Dialogical Observations
Jackson: The Constructivism That Wasn’t: On the Non-Inevitability of Sociological Liberalism (see Duck post)
Hynek and Teti: Deconstructing the Politics of “Sustainable Development” of IR Constructivism

Cultural Performance in International Relations

Jackson, Patrick (Chair)
Bially Mattern, Janice (Discussant)

Acuff: A Sociology of Power
Alexander: Performing Global Society
Neumann: Eating Like a Diplomat: Performing Nation and Performing Commensality
Ringmar: Recognition Regimes: Performing Identity in Three International Systems
Kustermans: The Cold War: Practice and Performance

Surviving the Leaky Pipeline? Women Succeeding in IR’s Man’s World

Sjoberg, Laura (Chair)
Golan, Galia (Roundtable Participant)
Solingen, Etel (Roundtable Participant)
Golich, Vicki (Roundtable Participant)
Tickner, J. (Roundtable Participant)
Simmons, Beth (Roundtable Participant)

ISA

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:37:53 -0400

It turns out that I had been misinformed about the location of next year’s ISA conference; it will be in San Francisco rather than Honolulu. we will get to Hawaii, but not until 2020. See here for a full list of future dates and locations.

For those looking for the inside scoop regarding this year’s happenings, check out #ISA2012 on twitter.

Recommended for Unit IV: Critical, Marxian, and Post-Structural Approaches

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:10:00 -0400

Immanuel Wallterstein, “The Inter-State Structure of the Modern World-System,” in Linklater, International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vol. IV, pp. 1361-78.
Andre Gunder Frank, “The Development of Underdevelopment,” in Linklater, International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vol. III, pp. 1149-59.
Fred Halliday, “A Necessary Encounter: Historical Materialism and International Relations,” in Linklater, International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vol. III, pp. 1184-1206.
Robert W. Cox, “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory,” in Keohane, ed., Neorealism and Its Critics, pp. 204-54.
Robert W. Cox, “Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method,” Millennium, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Summer 1983), pp. 162-75.
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, “Post-Marxism Without Apologies,” New Left Review, 166 (1987), 79-106.
Stephen Gill, “Globalization, Market Civilization, and Disciplinary Neoliberalism,” in Linklater, International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vol. III, pp. 1223-47.
Andrew Linklater, “The Question of the Next Stage in International Relations Theory: A Critical-Theoretical Point of View,” in Linklater, International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vol. IV, pp. 1633-54.
Chris Brown, “Turtles All the Way Down: Anti-foundationalism, Critical Theory, and International Relations,” in Linklater, International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vol. IV, pp. 1655-78.
Richard Price and Christian Reus-Smit, “Dangerous Liaisons? Critical International Theory and Constructivism,” in Linklater, International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vol. IV, pp. 1784-1816.
Andrew Linklater, “The Achievements of Critical Theory,” Steve Smith, Ken Booth and Marysia Kalewski, International Theory: Positivism and Beyond (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 279-98.
Andrew Linklater, “The Question of the Next Stage in International Relations Theory: A Critical-Theoretical Point of View,” Millennium, Vol. 21, No. 1 (1992), pp. 77-98.
Andrew Linklater, The Transformation of Political Community (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1998), chaps. 1-4.
Mark Hoffman, “Critical Theory and the Inter-Paradigm Debate,” Millennium, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1987), pp. 231-49.
N.J. Rengger, “Going Critical? A Response to Hoffman,” Millennium, Vol. 17, No. 1 (1988), pp. 81-89.
“International Relations and the New Inequality,” special issue of International Studies Review, Vol. 4, Issue 2 (Summer 2002).
Mohammed Ayoob, “Inequality and Theorizing in International Relations: The Case for Subaltern Realism,” International Studies Review, Vol. 4, Issue 3 (Fall 2002), pp. 27-48.
Richard Devetak, “The Project of Modernity and International Relations Theory,” in Linklater, International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vol. IV, pp. 1731-55.
Richard K. Ashley, “The Poverty of Neorealism,” in Keohane, ed., Neorealism and Its Critics, pp. 255-300.
Richard K. Ashley and R.B.J. Walker, “”Reading Dissidence/Writing the Discipline: Crisis and the Question of Sovereignty in International Studies,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 3 (1990), pp. 367-416 (also in Linklater, ed., International Relations: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Vol. I, pp. 126-89).
Jim George and David Campbell, “Patterns of Dissent and the Celebration of Difference: Critical Social Theory and International Relations,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 3 (1990), pp. 269-93.
David Campbell, Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity, Revised Edition (Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1998), chaps. 1-4, 9.
D.S.L. Jarvis, International Relations and the Challenge of Postmodernism: Defending the Discipline (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2000), chaps. 5, 7.

Week 7: Historical Materialism

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:56:00 -0400

Wednesday, March 21

Paul, Darel. 2005. “The Local Politics of ‘Going Global’: Making and Unmaking Minneapolis-St Paul as a World City.” Urban Studies 42(12):2103-2122.
Sinclair, Timothy. 2005. “A Private Authority Perspective on Global Governance.”Ba and Hoffman, pp 178-189.
Paul, Darel. 2005. “World Cities as Hegemonic Projects: The Politics of Global Imagineering in Montreal.” Political Geography 23(5):571-596.

Resources:

What is Historical Materialism? | Marxist.com

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.

- Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Week 6: International Norms and Domestic Change

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:46:57 -0400

Wednesday, March 14

Finnemore, Martha and Kathryn Sikkink. 1998. “International Norm Dynamics and Political Change.” International Organization 52(4):887-917.
Risse, Thomas. 1999 “International Norms and Domestic Change: Arguing and Communicative Behavior in the Human Rights Arena.” Politics & Society 27(4):529-559.
Towns, Ann E. 2010. Women and States: Norms and Hierarchies in International Society, pp.17-80.

Recommended:

Judith Goldstein and Robert O. Keohane, “Ideas and Foreign Policy: An Analytical Framework,” in Judith Goldstein and Robert O. Keohane, eds., Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change (Ithaca, N.J.: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 3-30.
Jeffrey Checkel, “International Norms and Domestic Politics: Bridging the Rationalist-Constructivist Divide,” European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 3, No. 4 (December 1997), pp. 473-95.
Chaim D. Kaufman and Robert A. Pape, “Explaining Costly International Moral Action: Britain’s Sixty-year Campaign Against the Atlantic Slave Trade,” International Organization, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Autumn 1999), pp. 631-68.
Richard Price, “Transnational Civil Society and Advocacy in World Politics,” World Politics, Vol. 55, No. 4 (July 2003), pp. 579-606.
Paul Kowert and Jeffrey Legro, “Norms, Identity, and Their Limits: A Theoretical Reprise,” in Katzenstein, ed., The Culture of National Security, pp. 451-97.
Rey Koslowski and Friedrich V. Kratochwil, “Understanding Change in International Politics: The Soviet Empire’s Demise and the International System,” in Lebow and Risse-Kappen, eds., International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War, pp. 127-66.
Thomas Risse-Kappen, “Ideas to Not Float Freely: Transnational Coalitions, Domestic Structures, and the End of the Cold War,” in Lebow and Risse-Kappen, eds., International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War, pp. 187-222.

2012 ISA-NE Call for Papers Posted

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:23:24 -0400

The 2012 ISA-NE Call for Papers is now available. Our conference, “Global Governance and Interdisciplinarity in IR,” will be held 2-3 November 2012 at the Tremont Plaza Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.

Rules for Writing One's CV | Saideman's Semi-Spew

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:55:07 -0400

Rules for Writing One's CV | Saideman's Semi-Spew