A Theory of World Politics

Albert, Mathias

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“…Número 50 • Junio 2022 -Septiembre 2022 Grupo de Estudios de Relaciones Internacionales Universidad Autónoma de Madrid de la política mundial, que no depende de líneas estables entre lo interno y lo externo para darle cohesión y coherencia. En otras palabras, no necesitamos pensar lo internacional como un sistema cerrado sujeto de ser gobernado a través de una orden, sino como un sistema abierto y siempre productor de disyunciones y trayectorias imprevisibles (Albert, 2016;Helmig y Kessler, 2007;Kessler, 2012).…”

Section: Relaciones Internacionalesunclassified

La contribución de la Sociología Política Internacional al pensamiento crítico en Relaciones Internacionales

Nogueira

Huysmans²,

García³

2022

Rel. Int.

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Por mucho tiempo considerada una disciplina preocupada con el problema del orden, las Relaciones Internacionales pasaron por un proceso de transformación que amplió su alcance hacia las esferas más diversas de la vida social y política del mundo contemporáneo. Una parte significativa del crédito de este proceso de renovación puede ser atribuida al giro crítico en los estudios internacionales. Al incorporar el dinamismo intelectual del posestructuralismo y del posmarxismo a los debates teóricos en el área, el pensamiento crítico internacional creó las condiciones para la actual diversificación y pluralización del área. El presente artículo discute cómo la Sociología Política Internacional (SPI) surge como efecto de este proceso de cuáles son sus contribuciones para el desarrollo de formas innovadoras de crítica de la política mundial contemporánea. Intentamos mostrar cómo, a través de métodos y epistemologías transdisciplinares, la SPI ofrece nuevas formas de articular procesos sociales y políticos en el espacio internacional, repensando y problematizando sus fronteras y límites. El artículo propone, en la primera sección, que la Sociología Política Internacional tiene sus linajes intelectuales en el giro crítico en Relaciones Internacionales, y se desarrolla profundizando el potencial de una perspectiva analítica del poder como descentralizado y fragmentado, así como de concepciones de agencia situada en campos sociales específicos. Lo que se intenta, es pensar lo internacional con base en una topología alternativa que explore transversalidades y evite el pensamiento en niveles y escalas. A continuación, discutimos algunos de los conceptos clave de la SPI, como transversalidad, campos sociales, ensamblajes, entre otros, para después mostrar cómo este campo piensa el problema del cambio, el lugar de las prácticas en la reflexión sobre la agencia, y la prioridad para el análisis de flujos e intersticios. Finalmente, el artículo reflexiona sobre el lugar de la Sociología Política Internacional en la disciplina de Relaciones Internacionales y sobre su contribución específica para el pensamiento crítico internacional.

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Section: Relaciones Internacionalesunclassified

La contribución de la Sociología Política Internacional al pensamiento crítico en Relaciones Internacionales

Nogueira

Huysmans²,

García³

2022

Rel. Int.

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“…Suffice to highlight here that many of these theories are, despite all differences, jointly anchored in a historical-sociological understanding of globalization and are all interested in the complex social dynamics unleashed by the forces of modernity on individuals and societies around the globe. This includes studies on the way in which the 'international system' as a distinct social sphere emerged and evolved in global modernity (see Albert, 2016;Stetter, 2019). As Hurrell (2020, p. 194) puts it, 'we need to develop a far more social view of the system' of international politics when studying core features of international politics, such as geopolitics or nationalism.…”

Section: The Middle East Polycentrism and Entanglements Through The Prism Of Global Modernity And World Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The goal here is therefore not to sketch out a comprehensive framework for how theories of global modernity and world society could be of use for studying IR (cf. Albert, 2016) or Middle East politics, (Stetter, 2008(Stetter, , 2012. The goal rather is to show how theories of global modernity and world society can be made fruitful to Middle East scholarship by bringing insights from these theories into contact with the two core themes of 'analytic polycentrism' on power relations and 'historic entanglements' embedded in local-global interplays outlined in the previous section.…”

Section: The Middle East Polycentrism and Entanglements Through The Prism Of Global Modernity And World Societymentioning

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The Middle East in global modernity: Analytic polycentrism, historic entanglements and a rejuvenated area studies debate

Stetter

2021

Mediterranean Politics

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I argue that theories of global modernity/world society offer a promising interdisciplinary approach for theorizing the Middle East. They provide a conceptual umbrella for a rejuvenated Area Studies debate. I turn first to earlier (interdisciplinary) debates of that kind and then discuss how a rejuvenated debate can reach for new shores: I address the Middle East Area Studies Controversy, and then Fred Halliday's distinction between 'analytic universalism' and 'historic particularism'. Focusing on the interstices between Area Studies and International Relations (IR), I suggest that scholarship on the Arab uprisings offers insights on how to transcend this distinction by shifting to 'analytic polycentrism' and 'historic entanglements'. I identify the unpredictability of power relations and local/global horizons as central, and often marginalized perspectives brought to the fore in post-Arab uprising scholarship. I then discuss how these insights can be linked to innovative (inter-disciplinary) debates in IR that draw from historical-sociological theories of global modernity and world society, especially how the concepts of emergence and evolution as well as differentiation and subjectivity -central pillars of world society theories -can be made of use for the study of the Middle East's place in global modernity and global IR generally speaking.

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“…From this perspective, a focus on the role of boundary objects is particularly analytically useful for examining the co-constituted nature of "the international" as an object of investigation. A focus on boundary objects offers analysts' a way to account for how the functionally differentiated complexity of the international is rendered both universally and particularly meaningful (Albert 2016;Kessler 2012;Albert and Buzan 2013). As the example of the BRIC illustrates, boundary objects can establish new categorical schema and identities within IR knowledge-production, due to their development, dissemination and usage within other circuits of practice.…”

Section: Figure 1: Boundary Objects -Tacking Back-and-forth Between Common and Tailored Identitiesmentioning

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“…Importantly for IR, a focus on the role of boundary objects is analytically useful for examining the co-constituted nature of "the international" as an object of investigation. It offers a way to account for how the international's functionally differentiated complexity is rendered both universally and particularly meaningful (Albert 2016;Kessler 2012;Albert and Buzan 2013).…”

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Common knowledge? Business intellectuals, BRIC and the production of knowledge across global finance and international relations

Aris

Snetkov

2020

J Int Relat Dev

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This article engages with the debate about how we come to know IR the way that we do. It seeks to contribute to this research agenda in two, related, ways: Firstly, by highlighting the influence that a previously neglected circuit of practice has on the co-constituted knowledge relationship between Global Finance and IR: the business intellectuals of the Cultural Circuit of Capital (CCC). Secondly, it argues that the Science and Technology Studies' concept of boundary objects is invaluable in accounting for both how IR's "constitutive" theorising is influenced by other circuits of practice and the co-constituted nature of "the international" as an object of investigation. To exemplify both arguments, and how they relate to one another, the article traces the co-constituted operation of the concept of the "BRIC". Following the global financial crisis in 2007/8, the CCC popularized the concept of "BRIC", which then came to operate as a boundary object between IR and Global Finance and in the process impacted on how IR knows "rising powers" and "global governance". Thus, the functionality of BRIC as a boundary object served to provide the business intellectuals of the CCC with constitutive influence on how IR knows its object of study.

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A Theory of World Politics

Cited by 121 publications

References 227 publications

La contribución de la Sociología Política Internacional al pensamiento crítico en Relaciones Internacionales

La contribución de la Sociología Política Internacional al pensamiento crítico en Relaciones Internacionales

The Middle East in global modernity: Analytic polycentrism, historic entanglements and a rejuvenated area studies debate

Common knowledge? Business intellectuals, BRIC and the production of knowledge across global finance and international relations

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