Nuancing Realism: Martin Wight, Power Politics, and International Society

Molloy, Sean

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“…In other words, it is possible to find both the pessimism underlined by theoreticians of Realism and the necessity to take lessons from history (Molloy, 2006, p. 82).…”

Section: Reasons For Iran’s Not Abandoning Its Missile Programmementioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Iran’s Decision-makings in Defence Issues and Missile Programme

Dolatabadi

2020

India Quarterly

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The main question of the present study is: How is it that despite the West’s insistence on negotiation on Tehran’s missile programme and the possibility of sanctions being intensified in the event of Iran’s refusal, the Tehran authorities reject any negotiations in this regard? The findings of the present study indicate that Iranian political authorities, and in particular, the Iranian Leader, have a realistic view towards the country’s defence issue and continue to lay emphasis on such measures as increasing military capability, establishing a balance of power and self-sufficiency in arms manufacturing. Iran’s fears of replication of Iraq’s and Libya’s disarmament and the subsequent overthrow of the political systems of these governments, distrust in the West in the negotiations and the related consequences, lack of a strategic partner, the bitter experience of war with Iraq, and the continuous threats made by the USA and Israel have caused Iran to reject any request for negotiations about its missile programme.

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“…In other words, it is possible to find both the pessimism underlined by theoreticians of Realism and the necessity to take lessons from history (Molloy, 2006, p. 82).…”

Section: Reasons For Iran’s Not Abandoning Its Missile Programmementioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Iran’s Decision-makings in Defence Issues and Missile Programme

Dolatabadi

2020

India Quarterly

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“…The recent historiography of realism has identified Karl Mannheim as an important influence on the development of Carr’s and Morgenthau’s thought (Breiner, 2014; Frei, 2001: 38–39; Gismondi, 2007: 139–142; Jones, 1998: 127; Molloy, 2006: 38–39). It is likely that this influence was established through personal relationships.…”

Section: Particular Ideology: Mannheim In Carr and Morgenthaumentioning

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From subjects to objects: Knowledge in International Relations theory

Allan

2017

European Journal of International Relations

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There has been a resurgence of interest in the role of scientific knowledge and expertise in International Relations, but it is not clear what the theoretical value-added of this work is. This article places recent work on scientific knowledge and expertise in a longer-term perspective. The history shows that knowledge has played an important role in International Relations theory since Carr and Morgenthau, but that thinking has been trapped within a simple conceptual framework centered on tracing how knowledge shapes the beliefs and interests of international subjects. This mode of theorizing first entered International Relations via Mannheim and has been further developed by Foucauldian and practice-based approaches since the 1990s. Outlining the history of knowledge from Carr through Haas to the present makes it possible to identify the distinctive contribution of recent work: whereas International Relations has focused on how knowledge shapes subjects such as states and international organizations, recent work by Corry, Sending, and others reorients International Relations to the constitution of governance objects. On the object-centered view, knowledge plays a key role in the construction of the hybrid entities like the economy and the climate that structure the landscape of international politics.

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“…Machiavelli’s (1972 [1532]) The Prince soon was taken up – well or poorly – by Charles II in Spain; Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Thomas Cromwell in England; and Catherine de Medici and Henry III in France during the spread of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation ideas in Europe. His writings later influenced thinkers from Bodin to Gramsci (Behr, 2010; Donnelly, 2000; Molloy, 2006; Morgenthau, 1970). And, like Thucydides, Machiavelli in The Prince does not shrink from mythic allusions in his wide-ranging survey of ancient to early modern statecraft being a fable of intrepid statesmen struggling to manage the wiles of Fortuna .…”

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Caught between vulgar and effete realists: Critical theory, classical realism and mythographies of power

Luke

2016

Journal of International Political Theory

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This study explores conceptual conflicts embedded in the thematic grounding of classical realism. To establish conditions of consistent normality in human political behaviour for realist analysis, the rhetoric of originary political wisdom usually ties its claims, as a research framework, to myth and enlightenment. Because Thucydides, Machiavelli or Hobbes articulated the premises of political realist analysis in the contexts of state formation, anarchic regional politics and perpetual war, these first figures of political authority seem to have set terms of geopolitical analysis that erase context, arrest temporality and homogenise space by pointing analysis back to classical events, thinkers and struggles in mythic terms. Critical theorists ask if such mythic styles of reasoning are a credible approach, even though many accept such modes of analysis. Consequently, this study explores how myth affects political realist studies to question how statecraft perpetuates itself on reason, myth and their contradictions.

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Nuancing Realism: Martin Wight, Power Politics, and International Society

Cited by 7 publications

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Understanding Iran’s Decision-makings in Defence Issues and Missile Programme

Understanding Iran’s Decision-makings in Defence Issues and Missile Programme

From subjects to objects: Knowledge in International Relations theory

Caught between vulgar and effete realists: Critical theory, classical realism and mythographies of power

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