Normative State Power in International Relations

Koivisto, Marjo

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“…In this section I will therefore advocate to think of moral orders as being strategic fields. This approach can be related to an interesting alternative for Giddens' structured social theory which is, according to Koivisto (2012) (p. 45), the realist "strategicrelational approach" advanced by Hay (2002) and Jessop (2008). These authors regard structure and agency as analytical categories of which the manifestations are relational.…”

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Varieties of Moral Orders and the Dual Structure of Society: A Perspective from Positioning Theory

Langenhove

2017

Front. Sociol.

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This paper argues that morality is what links structure to agency and that this perspective supports Giddens' point of view that the agency-structure linkage entails not dualism but duality. These claims will be supported by bringing together four mediating concepts to address both how structures come to being and what the substance of structure is. First, John Searle's concept of deontic power and Rom Harré's concept of moral order will be discussed. This will allow to develop a typology of moral orders that distinguishes between cultural, legal, institutional, conversational, and personal moral orders. Second, the notion of field will be presented as a third mediating concept and it will be argued that the different types of moral orders form a latent background that operates as a normative field in which people act. The totality of those nested orders can be pictured as the structure of a society. The final part of the paper will introduce the concept of position, as used in Positioning Theory, as a fourth mediating concept to advance the analysis of moral orders as structures and relate it to the differences in power amongst actors. Here, it will be argued that declarative speech acts are the activators of moral orders, that moral orders enable for certain positions of agency, and that conversational story lines allow to reproduce or change structures.

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Section: Moral Orders As Strategic Fieldsmentioning

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Varieties of Moral Orders and the Dual Structure of Society: A Perspective from Positioning Theory

Langenhove

2017

Front. Sociol.

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“…In other words, recognition becomes -especially, recognition as 'the most privileged partner' as Cooley stresses -the permissive context for an actor's exercise of power. As Jiang (2013), Koivisto (2012) and Cooley (2013) amply demonstrate, such recognition tends to be granted when the power-wielding actors deliver deliberate and credible commitments to the intended target. At the same time, the recognition of an actor as a normative state power rests on the ability to show contextual consideration for the effects of its actions on others.…”

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Recognising Normative State Action in International Life

Kavalski

2017

Political Studies Review

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The study of power is one of the defining features of International Relations. Thus, every generation of IR scholars undertakes a reconsideration of the concept of power in an attempt to place its own definitive stamp on one of the oldest conversations in world affairs. What distinguishes current engagements with the consideration of power is that they are happening in the context of a power transition. It is in this setting that the three books included in this review both reflect and address the different puzzles attendant in the current re-articulations of the notion and practices of power in IR. Jiang Qing addresses the 'what' of power through a novel assessment of previously overlooked Confucian insights. Marjo Koivisto engages the 'when' of power by drawing attention to the strategic impact of normative state action in world affairs. Alexander Cooley explores the 'how' of power through a parallel assessment of the strategic competition for influence between the US, Russia and China in Central Asia. Jiang, Q. (2013).

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“…This article does not aim to dwell on the theory of norms and normative power in detail, as this has already been done by other scholars (Manners 2002(Manners , 2006Diez 2004;Brommerson 2010;Koivisto 2012;Kavalski 2013). However, it is nevertheless necessary to define how normative power is perceived here and how it relates to other types and sources of power.…”

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“…The last decade has certainly brought some positive developments in this regard, resulting in some rigorous academic papers on normative power. However, it is interesting to note that the majority of them were written by authors from the Western world (Manners 2002(Manners , 2006Diez 2004;Brommerson 2010;Crawford 2010;Zupančič and Hribernik 2011;Koivisto 2012;Kavalski 2013).…”

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“Discovering” normative power as a state strategy in the framework of security, foreign, and defense policy: the case of Japan

Zupančič

Hribernik

2014

Philippine Political Science Journal

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Various factors influence the (trans)formation of security, foreign, and defense policies of countries. One of them is normative power, a concept that has gained significance in academic debates in the last decade. However, normative power as an emerging though theoretically disputed concept remains a relatively under-researched area in academia. With the exception of research by mostly European scholars, this particularly holds true for case studies of Asian countries. This article contributes to the body of knowledge on normative power by analyzing the case study of Japan, from the standpoint of a country that has increased and then applied its normative power as an important means through which traditional (interest-based) foreign, security and defense goals can be pursued. In the analysis of Japan's aspirations to become recognized as a global normative power advocate, we analyze the impact of the end of the Cold War and the Gulf War on the country's perception of its strategic environment, and subsequent efforts to redefine its role in promoting a new norms-based framework. We also identify three areas in which Japan has been able to strengthen its hard security while simultaneously reinforcing its normative power: its security alliance with the United States, its multiand bilateral (military) cooperation with other states, and its ability to bolster both its hard and its normative power in an emerging multipolar international system.

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Normative State Power in International Relations

Cited by 8 publications

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Varieties of Moral Orders and the Dual Structure of Society: A Perspective from Positioning Theory

Varieties of Moral Orders and the Dual Structure of Society: A Perspective from Positioning Theory

Recognising Normative State Action in International Life

“Discovering” normative power as a state strategy in the framework of security, foreign, and defense policy: the case of Japan

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