The Dynamics of Global Power Politics: A Framework for Analysis

Goddard, Stacie E.; Nexon, Daniel H.

doi:10.1093/jogss/ogv007

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“…Working broadly within the field of global power politics (Berenskoetter 2007;Goddard and Nexon 2016), three separate research agendas allow us to identify potential leverage mechanisms; firstly, work on economic remittances long established the importance of such capital inflows for sending states (Orrenius and Zavodny 2012;Escribà-Folch, Meseguer, and Wright 2015;Mosley and Singer 2015, 293-97;Hollifield, Martin, and Orrenius 2014, 7). Economic remittances constitute a valuable source of foreign exchange and produce multiplier effects on the aggregate economy (Kapur 2010).…”

Section: Investigating Labor Migration As Interstate Leveragementioning

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Labor Migrants as Political Leverage: Migration Interdependence and Coercion in the Mediterranean

Tsourapas¹

2019

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How do states attempt to use their position as destinations for labor migration to influence sending states, and under what conditions do they succeed? I argue that economically driven cross-border mobility generates reciprocal political economy effects on sending and host states. That is, it produces migration interdependence. Host states may leverage their position against a sending state by either deploying strategies of restriction—curbing remittances, strengthening immigration controls, or both—or displacement—forcefully expelling citizens of the sending state. These strategies’ success depends on whether the sending state is vulnerable to the political economy costs incurred by host states’ strategy, namely if it is unable to absorb them domestically and cannot procure the support of alternative host states. I also contend that displacement strategies involve higher costs than restriction efforts and are therefore more likely to succeed. I demonstrate my claims through a least-likely, two-case study design of Libyan and Jordanian coercive migration diplomacy against Egypt in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. I examine how two weaker Arab states leveraged their position against Egypt, a stronger state but one vulnerable to migration interdependence, through the restriction and displacement of Egyptian migrants.

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Section: Investigating Labor Migration As Interstate Leveragementioning

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Labor Migrants as Political Leverage: Migration Interdependence and Coercion in the Mediterranean

Tsourapas¹

2019

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“…I senere tid har mange forskere av internasjonal politikk og utenrikspolitikk innsett at feltet er for komplekst til å bli analysert innenfor kun ett av disse paradigmene eller modellene. En del forskning har derfor forsøkt å frigjøre seg fra disse og tatt til orde for å etablere en forskningsagenda som i større grad tar høyde for denne kompleksiteten (Carlsnaes 1992, Adler 1997, Neumann 2002, Goddard & Nexon 2016. Dette har blant annet ført til en forskningsagenda der fokuset er blitt dreid mer mot hvordan internasjonal politikk blir praktisert.…”

Section: Internasjonal Politikk Og Betydningen Av Statsledernes Persounclassified

Internasjonal politikk og betydningen av statsledernes personlige lederstil

Rieker¹

2018

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“…Further, globalization as a structural force needs to be considered in the mix. States can engage in power politics through collective mobilization beyond military instruments (Goddard and Nexon 2016), and the utilization of opportunities for power maximization inherent in economic globalization is yet to gain realists' attention.…”

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Recasting Statecraft: International Relations and Strategies of Peaceful Change

Paul

2017

International Studies Quarterly

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Much of mainstream International Relations (IR) scholarship considers war to be a precondition for significant changes at the systemic level. Peaceful change as a subject has received limited attention in Realism, except by E. H. Carr and Robert Gilpin, although several strategies for stability are present in the paradigm. Mechanisms inherent in Liberalism have offered the most insights on obtaining change without war. Constructivism also focuses on change, caused largely by norms and inter-subjective ideational forces. Yet concrete strategies for peaceful change at the international level remain elusive in much of IR theory. The traditional grand strategy literature has focused most attention on obtaining national objectives through war while ignoring peaceful mechanisms of change and transformation. This article, based on my presidential address at the 57 th ISA Convention in Atlanta in March 2016, calls for a reorientation in the grand strategy literature by incorporating strategies of peaceful change. It examines the contributions for peaceful change made by Europe, the United States, and rising and resurgent powers Russia, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa, in addition to ASEAN as a regional grouping. The article concludes by asking why some of these countries pursued peaceful strategies of change at various points in time only to abandon them subsequently. The article calls on the IR discipline to think more clearly about strategies for peaceful change and foreign policymakers to adapt and reorient succeeding generations to seek change without violence as a subject matter of serious study.

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The Dynamics of Global Power Politics: A Framework for Analysis

Cited by 130 publications

References 114 publications

Labor Migrants as Political Leverage: Migration Interdependence and Coercion in the Mediterranean

Labor Migrants as Political Leverage: Migration Interdependence and Coercion in the Mediterranean

Internasjonal politikk og betydningen av statsledernes personlige lederstil

Recasting Statecraft: International Relations and Strategies of Peaceful Change

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