Critique in a time of liberal world order

Jahn, Beate

doi:10.1057/jird.2011.34

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“…24 More generally, as recalled earlier, a robust economic growth may favour more generous and sustained social welfare provisions even under authoritarian rule (as in many Eastern Asian countries). 25 For a critical discussion of the new 'liberal world order' and its social and economic implications, see Jahn (2012). 26 The progressive weakening of political violence has been accompanied by a veritable explosion of 'common' violence and crime, which has led to a drastic increase in the numbers of homicides, robberies, kidnappings, burglaries, and the like.…”

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Democracy, social welfare and political violence: the case of Latin America

Grassi

2013

J Int Relat Dev

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The return of democracy in Latin America has been associated with a decline in political violence, but also with a failure to redress welfare troubles or restore social justice. This essay provides an exploration of these problematic relationships. It argues that the impact of democracy on social welfare and internal civil violence is complex, develops unevenly and is mediated by a host of contributing factors. The bearing of democracy on political violence has been especially weak. In some countries democratic elites played a role in reducing or eliminating armed conflicts by offering a series of political concessions to the opposition, in particular communication channels with the government and social and political rewards. However, political violence survived or intensified under democracy elsewhere, while it was eradicated by force and (less frequently) by concessions in a number of authoritarian settings. Democracy has also affected welfare policies, through the appearance and progressive strengthening of social organisations and political parties that favoured channelling benefits towards the less advantaged. Yet, welfare protection also took place under populist and authoritarian governments, and it was influenced by a series of additional economic, political and social factors.

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Democracy, social welfare and political violence: the case of Latin America

Grassi

2013

J Int Relat Dev

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“…Within this framework, the power of liberalism after the end of the Cold War was interpreted as evidence for 'mankind's ideological evolution' from absolutism through Bolshevism and fascism to liberal democracy (Fukuyama 1989: 3). The economic power of liberalism seemed to prove that capitalism was indeed the most efficient way of creating prosperity and widespread political support seemed to confirm the validity of the core liberal value of human freedom (Plattner 2008: 29;Jahn 2012).…”

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The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation

2021

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The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation offers an authoritative and comprehensive overview of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation. With contributions from over thirty distinguished and leading scholars, the Handbook provides a timely, engaging, and critical overview of conceptual foundations, political implications, and tensions at the global, regional, and local levels. It examines the key policies, practices, examples, and discourses underlining various segments of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation both as discursive formulations and as policy practices. Organized around four major thematic sections, the Handbook offers a state-of-the-art synthesis of the most pressing contemporary peace and conflict issues and charts new pathways for responding to transnational insecurities.

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“…Their realism is well explained, but what this means for critique is far from obvious. Even Beate Jahn's (2012) recent special issue on 'Critique in a time of liberal world order' partially builds on a 'totalizing' approach, one that Jahn (1998) has used and defended before, but she refrains from explicating what the contributing authors mean when they use the term 'critique'. The adjective 'critical' and the noun 'critique' thus function as tools to indicate belonging to a somehow progressive scholarly camp sceptical of the status quo of a debate.…”

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Strategies of critique in International Relations: From Foucault and Latour towards Marx

Koddenbrock

2014

European Journal of International Relations

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Critique is back on the scholarly agenda. Since the financial crisis, critique has been debated in philosophy and sociology with renewed rigour. International Relations is currently picking up on these developments. Yet, the critique of capitalism is largely absent in International Relations. This article argues that the theoretical resources deployed among 'radical' International Relations help explain this phenomenon. In order to rectify this, the article aims to resituate Marx at the centre of the debate about critique. Based on a discussion of the understandings of critique by Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour, the article shows that their conscious focus on the small and the contingent has prevented a more totalizing strategy of critique from taking hold. The article illustrates this unwillingness to situate social life in our capitalist social whole by zooming in on 'resistant' intervention scholarship. Speaking to the nature of International Relations more broadly, in a second step, the article shows that this lack of 'totalizing' analysis has been present in International Relations and International Political Economy since their inception. Taking into account Marxian and Critical Theoretical understandings of totality, the article outlines a totalizing strategy of critique. This strategy has two components: it takes capitalism as such seriously; and it offers a methodology to implement this substantial shift using Marx's dynamic method of 'concretization'.

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Critique in a time of liberal world order

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

Democracy, social welfare and political violence: the case of Latin America

Democracy, social welfare and political violence: the case of Latin America

The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation

Strategies of critique in International Relations: From Foucault and Latour towards Marx

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