Introduction: The Metaphysics of World Affairs

Pettman, Ralph

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“…No wonder, then, debates concerning Marxism and spirituality continue to excite intellectual and academic communities (e.g., Birnbaum, 1993, Part 2; Gottlieb, 1992, pp. 197–222; Page, 1993; Pettman, 2004, Part 3). Restoring Marx to his rightful place in the great spiritual traditions is a step toward ecumenicity.…”

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“…An implication of maximal inclusiveness is that we would not limit spirituality to a theistic worldview, which would exclude large portions of humanity, including those who hold nontheistic (e.g., Confucian), atheistic, or agnostic worldviews (cf. Pettman, 2004, Part 3). Kier and Davenport (2004) deplore the lack of research attention to atheists.…”

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Measuring Spirituality and Spiritual Emptiness: Toward Ecumenicity and Transcultural Applicability

2007

Review of General Psychology

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The authors review Eastern and Western conceptions of spirituality, explicate the spirituality construct and differentiate it from religiosity, propose strategies for achieving ecumenicity and transcultural applicability, and suggest innovative techniques for measuring spirituality and spiritual emptiness. The essential attributes of ecumenical spirituality are that it (a) is concerned with existential or transcendent questions; (b) belongs to the domain of cardinal values underlying all aspects of life; and (c) is self-reflective, and hence metacognitive, in nature. The paths to spirituality are many and are grounded in different values and beliefs across philosophical-religious traditions. However, commonalities may be extracted at a high level of abstraction and with maximal inclusiveness. Thus, the goal of ecumenicity, and hence transcultural applicability, is attainable.

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Measuring Spirituality and Spiritual Emptiness: Toward Ecumenicity and Transcultural Applicability

2007

Review of General Psychology

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“…What does human security mean where filial piety is the norm, and where Confucian respect for those who govern predominates, at least as long as they do so in terms that serve the common good? What does human security mean to the Taoist, in whom harmony is the core value, and wu-wei, or 'no unnatural action', is deemed the best way to behave (Pettman 2004)?…”

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Human Security as Global Security: Reconceptualising Strategic Studies

Pettman

2005

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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The article argues that global security should be seen as synonymous with human security, and that strategic studies should be located within that broader rubric. Mounting such an argument means meeting the charge of those who see the broader construction of strategic studies as vague and meaningless, and as detracting from the ability to make good policy. The article attempts, therefore, to map human security in as inclusive and systematic a way as possible. It attempts to show that the concept is neither vague nor meaningless, and is suitable, therefore, to be the basis for a comprehensive account of global security.How should global security be conceptualised? For example, should our focus remain restricted to the familiar politico-strategic (interstate/militarist/diplomatic) approaches to the subject? Or should it be broadened to incorporate more cooperative and collective, comprehensive and ultimately human concerns?

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“…Ralph Pettman (2004) has noted that aikido provides fundamental lessons for IR theory in that it rejects ‘the modernist strategic spectrum that puts competition at one end and cooperation at the other’ (p. 89). We agree, and perhaps more importantly argue that aikido provides a method for how to ‘live dangerously’, as Arnold Wolfers (1952) remarked that ‘nations must’ (p. 494), and for harbouring insecurities and dealing with attacks that may or may not occur, without applying force or even constructing antagonism.…”

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Aikido and world politics: a practice theory for transcending the security dilemma

Hagström

Bremberg

2022

European Journal of International Relations

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In the final analysis, is the security dilemma inescapable? Or can the protagonists in world politics learn to live with never-ending insecurities and the risk of attack without producing precisely the outcomes that they wish to avoid? This article explores this fundamental problem for International Relations theory by performing a thought experiment, in which it applies lessons from aikido to world politics. A form of Japanese budo, or martial art, aikido provides practitioners with a method for harbouring insecurities, and for dealing with attacks that may or may not occur, by empathically caring for actual and potential attackers. The article builds on practice theory in assuming that any social order is constructed and internalised through practices, but also capable of change through the introduction and dissemination of new practices. Although an unlikely scenario, aikido practice could serve as such a method of fundamental transformation if widely applied in world politics. Empirical examples ranging from international apologies and security cooperation to foreign aid and peacekeeping operations are discussed, suggesting that contemporary world politics is at times already performed in accordance with aikido principles, albeit only imperfectly and partially.

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Introduction: The Metaphysics of World Affairs

Cited by 5 publications

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Measuring Spirituality and Spiritual Emptiness: Toward Ecumenicity and Transcultural Applicability

Measuring Spirituality and Spiritual Emptiness: Toward Ecumenicity and Transcultural Applicability

Human Security as Global Security: Reconceptualising Strategic Studies

Aikido and world politics: a practice theory for transcending the security dilemma

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