The OSCE: Inclusive Security Practices and Their Limits

Gheciu, Alexandra

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“…There were also indications that NATO–Russia cooperation had been hampered not only because of Russia’s insistence on being treated as a great power, but also due to NATO’s tendency to present itself as the model for security cooperation in Europe (Pouliot, 2010: 140). NATO’s approach to security cooperation ultimately sought to make its partners and potential members ‘achieve Western standards of liberal-democratic subjectivity’ (Gheciu, 2008: 82). NATO’s approach to building security by seeking to shape new and potential members in its own image points to a disposition of superiority that is hardly premised on continuous self-reflexivity, and the self’s ability to empathise and identify with the other, and is thus alien to aikido practice.…”

Section: To Practice Aikido In World Politicsmentioning

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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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Section: To Practice Aikido In World Politicsmentioning

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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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“…Since the late 1990s, the nature of NATO’s military interventions has meant there has been a necessity for NATO to engage with civil society on the ground, yet despite this, such relationships have proven challenging given many civil society organisations are critical of the alliance and its militarist purpose (Gheciu, 2011). NATO has ‘benefited from the experience and expertise of civil society, notably in Kosovo and Afghanistan’ (NATO, 2016a) providing ‘valuable feed-back to the NATO-led operations there’, a claim that was used to justify the establishment of CSAP (NATO, 2016a: 2).…”

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“…An alternative explanation for the lack of civil society involvement in NATO’s WPS work prior to 2014 is that NATO has traditionally been ‘not viewed as a partner of civil society’ (Interviewee R; see also Interviewee N; Gheciu, 2011; Mayer, 2008; Williams, 2014) and therefore challenging pre-existing civil society perceptions of NATO was key to facilitating CSAP. One significant development worth considering further in this respect is the creation of the position of SGSR on WPS in 2012, a high-level focal point to coordinate and drive action on WPS (Wright et al, 2019: 60).…”

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Challenging civil society perceptions of NATO: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda

Wright¹

2022

Cooperation and Conflict

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Engagement with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda by military actors has caused concern among some of its civil society advocates. For example, NATO has adopted the WPS agenda as an increasingly visible part of its self-narrative. Yet what had distinguished NATO’s engagement with WPS from many other actors is that it came without civil society involvement. The establishment of a Civil Society Advisory Panel (CSAP) on WPS in 2014 is therefore highly significant for both NATO and the WPS agenda. Despite this, the efficacy of such consultation is not clear-cut nor its potential to mitigate militarised understandings of WPS and support transformative engagement with the agenda, particularly given the wariness of some civil society to engage with NATO. Drawing on interviews with civil society, this article interrogates their perceptions of NATO in order to understand the potential of such engagements to support transformative understandings of WPS and more broadly the efficacy of civil society engagement with military institutions. In so doing, it examines how such consultation adds to our understanding of NATO as an institution of international hegemonic masculinity.

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“…In 1973–1975, the CSCE’s founders aimed foremost to overcome polarization and to bridge East–West divisions. The equal status of participating states 7 was considered vital to achieving foreign policy goals, such as preventing nuclear conflict and a third world war originating in Europe (Galbreath, 2007; Gheciu, 2008; Hecht, 2012). This initially contributed to accommodating discourse.…”

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When democratic governance unites and divides: Social status and contestation in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Hecht¹

2020

Cooperation and Conflict

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Scholars and practitioners are increasingly attentive to contestation against symbols and institutions underpinning international order(s). Yet International Relations scholarship can benefit from greater understanding of ways in which contestation interacts with salient dimensions of social status in specific international organizations (IOs). Drawing on evidence from the history of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), with a focus on democratic governance and human rights, this article analyzes status-related contestation as a significant, yet under-examined type of contestation in multilateral diplomacy. Status-related contestation conveys dissatisfaction about symbols, institutions, and actors which reinforce socially significant divisions that place a state (or group of states) at a social disadvantage in a particular multilateral venue. International organizations provide unique social contexts which affect the content of contestation. Building on scholarship in social psychology, constructivism, and status hierarchies in world politics, the article analyzes the evolution of a dimension (or basis) of social status in the OSCE and illustrates that, beyond domestic and material interests, state representatives communicate social identity-related concerns through language, for example, that expresses discontent with dividing lines, unfairness, or (dis)respect, in attempting to minimize negative social identities in multilateral organizations.

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The OSCE: Inclusive Security Practices and Their Limits

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

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

Challenging civil society perceptions of NATO: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda

When democratic governance unites and divides: Social status and contestation in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

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