Making Machines: Unlikely Resonances between Realist and Postcolonial Thought

Abraham, Kavi Joseph

doi:10.1093/ips/olx009

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“…Much research in IR conceives of politics as a separate realm of social activity, an understanding that some consider too narrow for IPS as a whole. The tradition in IR to differentiate the political from other domains of the social is connected with Hans Morgenthau's early theoretical efforts (Morgenthau & Thompson, 1985; for a prioritization of the political, see Walker, 2010), which have been utilized by IPS scholars to demonstrate that the rich tradition of classical realism resonates with contemporary postcolonial approaches that critique the imperial logic of liberalism (Abraham, 2017). Outside IR, this differentiation was prominently introduced by Carl Schmitt, on whom Morgenthau draws to isolate the political from other domains of the social, such as the juridical and the economic sphere.…”

Section: The Politicalmentioning

confidence: 99%

International/Global Political Sociology

Nabers¹,

Stengel²

2019

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies

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International Political Sociology (IPS) emerged as a subfield of International Relations (IR) in the early 2000s. IPS itself may be understood as constituted by a field of tension between the concepts of “the International,” “the Political,” and “the Social.” Against this background, the centrality of anarchy and sovereignty as the fundamental structuring principles of international politics are increasingly called into question. While IPS remains an exciting, creative and important endeavor, researchers are also exploring paths toward what might be called a Global Political Sociology (GPS). Although IPS has become more global in orientation, more sociological with respect to sources, and more political in its stance, three ongoing shifts need to be made in order to transform IPS into GPS: first, insights from disciplines foreign to IR—both Western and non-Western—need to be employed in order to illustrate that specific localities have implications for the global as a whole; second, the continued engagement with causal theorizing must be replaced with contingency and undecidability as the fundamental constituting features of the political; and third, if the international that has been the nucleus of IR activities for decades, but impedes our understanding of politics instead of stimulating it, then alternative ways of theorizing global politics must be explored.

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Section: The Politicalmentioning

confidence: 99%