International relations in China and Europe: the case for interregional dialogue in a hegemonic discipline

Kristensen, Peter Marcus

doi:10.1080/09512748.2014.948568

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“…In this sense, our hegemonic distortions thesis further echoes international relations scholarship on Southeast Asia, where the discipline is widely recognised as a hegemonic discipline, and “received wisdom in Asia-Pacific academic and policy circles has had it that international relations (or IR) theory bears little, if any, relevance to the region's international politics” (Tan 2002: 30). Scholarship on the region's international politics, as such, is largely a mimicry of this “American social science” of international relations (Kristensen 2015: 161–63).…”

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Hegemonic Distortions: The Securitisation of the Insurgency in Thailand's Deep South

Jenne

Chang

2019

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The conflict between the Thai state and the Malay-Muslim insurgency in the country's Deep South is one of Southeast Asia's most persistent internal security challenges. The start of the current period of violence dates back to the early 2000s, and since then, a significant number of studies exploring the renewed escalation have been published. In this study, we argue that existing scholarship has not adequately accounted for the external environment in which political decisions were taken on how to deal with the southern insurgency. We seek to show how the internationally dominant, hegemonic security agenda of so-called non-traditional security (NTS) influenced the Thai government's approach to the conflict. Building upon the Copenhagen School's securitisation theory, we show how the insurgency became securitised under the dominant NTS narrative, leading to the adoption of harsh measures and alienating discourses that triggered the escalation of violence that continues today. The specific NTS frameworks that ‘distorted’ the Thai state's approach of one that had been informed solely by local facts and conditions were those of anti-narcotics and Islamist terrorism, albeit in different ways. Based on the findings from the case study, the article concludes with a reflection on the role of the hegemonic NTS agenda and its implications for Southeast Asian politics and scholarship.

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Hegemonic Distortions: The Securitisation of the Insurgency in Thailand's Deep South

Jenne

Chang

2019

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“…To take an example from China, the seven most cited sources in the Chinese Journal of International Politics are not Chinese journals, but International Security, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Foreign Affairs, World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and American Political Science Review (Kristensen forthcoming). It is not that there are no journals in China; there is a large and growing number of journals (and even a Chinese Social Science Citation Index).…”

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Revisiting the “American Social Science”-Mapping the Geography of International Relations

Kristensen

2013

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This paper studies the geography of the International Relations (IR) discipline, particularly the notion that IR is an “American social science.” First, it analyzes bibliometric data and finds that US‐based scholars continue to dominate IR journals, but also that IR is one of the least US‐dominated social sciences and that it has become markedly less so since the 1960s. Second, the paper argues that conventional measures based on nation‐state affiliation capture only part of the spatial structures of inequality. It employs novel visualization tools to present an alternative map of elite stratification in IR. Instead of looking at national cores and peripheries, it maps the social network structures of authorship and coauthorship in key IR journals. By mapping city and institutional output, it finds stratification structures within the American discipline. Elite institutions in Northeast America, rather than “America,” dominate the field's leading journals. A similar stratification is found in Western Europe. Moreover, network linkages in terms of both coauthorships and doctoral backgrounds tie these Northeast American and West European elites together. The paper concludes that while US dominance in IR journals is in decline, this has not yet made the discipline as international as its name warrants.

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“…56 More importantly, it also encourages one to see the 'indigenous' interlocutors as junior contributors to a universal hegemonic knowledge regime. This is evidenced by the tendency to evaluate the 'achievement' of Chinese scholars solely in terms of contribution to Western IR, such as how much they have 'carved out a space for regional thinking' in the mainstream Anglophone IR 57 More generally speaking, the scholarship on Chinese IR tends to reduce the openended discussion on international relations which exists as a part of Chinese critical inquiry into a teleologically defined enterprise of creating a specific intellectual product ('IR') to fit the modernist, Eurocentric expectation of a 'proper' modern social science. 59 Yet since the Qing dynasty's encounter with Western powers in the mid-19th century, intellectuals in China have been in continuous dialogue with both China's own traditions and the world at large in their pursuit of various political projects.…”

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Fantastic Theories and Where to Find Them: Rethinking Interlocutors in Global IR

Chu

2022

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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How can we appreciate non-Western agency in theorising world politics without reintroducing parochialism and exceptionalism, thus reproducing the very problem that motivated global international relations (IR) in the first place? In this article, I explore an alternative approach to engaging with non-Western IR theories, which I refer to as the embedded observer approach. First, taking the scholarship on Chinese IR as an example, I argue that the present predicament of global IR is in part attributable to the way scholars engage with non-Western political thought. Drawing from discussions in critical IR and Comparative Political Theory, I propose a methodological adjustment for the study of non-Western theories. Specifically, I argue that by shifting focus from isolated scholars and texts to critical dialogues among autochthonous intellectuals, the researcher has the chance to learn about and appreciate the clashes of ideas, analytical perspectives, and methodological tools that together constitute the living intellectual tradition in a non-Western society. As a demonstration, I analyse the People’s Republic of China (PRC) scholars’ critical reaction to Zhao Tingyang’s Tianxia System through the lens of three key topics in the debate over the thesis. The discussion highlights the need to rethink interlocutors in global IR and the utility of an embedded observer approach for engaging with knowledge traditions beyond the West, both in IR and beyond. 神奇理论在哪里？反思全球国际关系学中的对话者

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International relations in China and Europe: the case for interregional dialogue in a hegemonic discipline

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Cited by 12 publications

References 92 publications

Hegemonic Distortions: The Securitisation of the Insurgency in Thailand's Deep South

Hegemonic Distortions: The Securitisation of the Insurgency in Thailand's Deep South

Revisiting the “American Social Science”-Mapping the Geography of International Relations

Fantastic Theories and Where to Find Them: Rethinking Interlocutors in Global IR

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