The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations

Williams, Michael C.

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“…Starting from realism, there is no doubt that realism and mimetic theory converge in foregrounding a number of elements: firstly, the idea that violence, or the threat thereof, defines the human and political condition; secondly, the notion that fear and competition are powerful and endemic forces that need restraining so as to preserve a modicum of order; thirdly, the acknowledgement that any order is the result of a specific economy of power and violence (Williams 2005, Mearsheimer 2001, Lebow 2003. Mimetic theory, however, digs deeper into this state of affairs and, by doing so, demonstrates the hollowness of those second order categories which realism takes as theoretical building blocks.…”

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An alternative vision of politics and violence: Introducing mimetic theory in international studies

Brighi

Cerella

2015

Journal of International Political Theory

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Nature creates similarities. One need only think of mimicry. The highest capacity for producing similarities, however, is man's. His gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else. Perhaps there is none of his higher functions in which his mimetic faculty does not play a decisive role.Benjamin ([1933] 1991: 210) IntroductionIn the first of a long series of well-known university lectures, Heidegger (1968: 7) states: "that which really gives us food for thought did not turn way from man at some time or other which can be fixed in history -no, what really must be thought keeps itself turned away from man since the beginning." One might suppose that René Girard has closely interpreted this Heiddegerian suggestion. For his work goes backwards in the attempt, revolutionary and radical, to search for precisely those things hidden since the foundation of the world. 1 The origin of this new Archimedean point is traced back, as the reader will see, to a human dimension that has long been familiar but forgotten, close and seemingly distant, so near as to be hidden: imitation."There is nothing" -Girard (1987: 7) affirms -"in human behaviour that is not learned, and all learning is based on imitation. If human beings suddenly ceased imitating, all forms of culture would vanish." This seemingly simple statement, as we shall see, will find in Girard's thought a new theoretical and revolutionary statute.During a decades-long career, 2 Girard has developed this initial intuition to build a general theory on the role of culture, religion and violence among the most original and radical of the last century. His work has been studied and fruitfully applied in the most diverse disciplines 3 and is not a coincidence that the philosopher Gianni Vattimo has recently declared: 'Reading René Girard's work was as decisive 1 This is not by chance the title of Girard's magnum opus (1987). 2 For a detailed account of René Girard's life and work, see Palaver (2013: 1-14). 3 For an overview of Girardian Studies, see the website of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion: http://www.uibk.ac.at/theol/cover/ 2 to me as it was to read some of the works of Heidegger […] not just in intellectual terms but existential and personal ones too' (Antonello, 2010: 27).The aim of this introduction is twofold: to explore the fundamental concepts that form the basis of Girard's mimetic theory and to explain its analytic potential for international studies. To do this, the first part of the introduction will locate the work of Girard within the corpus of Western philosophical tradition by understanding, first, its epistemological originality and, accordingly, the hermeneutic insights that it offers to the humanities and social sciences. Girard, in fact, is a thinker who should be read by difference rather than similarity or analogy. Although he remains very close to many of the concepts and ideas of the Western tradition, Girard distances himself from t...

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An alternative vision of politics and violence: Introducing mimetic theory in international studies

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2015

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“…Una variante más es la del 'realismo neoclásico', la cual arguye que el impacto de los factores sistémicos sobre la conducta de un Estado dado será indirecto y más complejo de lo que neorrealistas han asumido, ya que tales factores pueden afectar la política no sólo a través de las variables que intervienen al nivel de la unidad (Rose, 1998;Zakaria, 1998) sino a través de factores identitarios (Williams, 2005). De hecho Williams afirma que su realismo…”

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Explorando la distinción política interna - política internacional: un estado del arte de la discusión

Peña¹

2015

Rev. relac. int. estrateg . segur .

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RESUMENPara algunos teóricos la conducta de los Estados está determinada principalmente por sus características internas. En contraposición, otros argumentan que el comportamiento estatal está moldeado por el lugar que ocupan estos en el sistema internacional. El propósito aquí es abordar esta discusión y elaborar un estado del arte sobre esta distinción en las Relaciones Internacionales como ciencia. Dado que el cuerpo literario que explora la interacción política interna-política internacional es muy vasto, para

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“…Njegova su djela u posljednjih desetak godina pobudila poseban interes istraživača međunarodnih odnosa (Peterson 1999;Lebow 2003;Molloy 2004;Williams 2005Williams , 2007Bell 2009;Neascu 2009;Jütersonke 2010; Behr i Rösch 2013;Rösch 2013, Navari 2017. Rezultat je toga istraživačkog pothvata trojak.…”

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K teoriji međunarodne politike Hansa J. Morgenthaua

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2018

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Pregledni rad Prihvaćeno: ožujak 2018.Sažetak Hans J. Morgenthau, utemeljitelj realističke teorije međunarodne politike četrdesetih godina 20. stoljeća, donedavno se smatrao pozitivističkim teoretičarom "tvrde" politike moći u međunarodnoj politici. no sve veći akademski interes za njegovo djelo posljednjih godina pokazao je kako je riječ o kompleksnom misliocu koji je ponajprije teoretičar politike. u ovome rada autor prikazuje Morgenthauovu političku teoriju i njezine temeljne pojmove u trima razdobljima njihova razvoja: do drugoga svjetskog rata, od kraja rata do šezdesetih godina i poslije šezdesetih. Posebno se osvrćući na glavne studije iz svakoga od tih razdoblja, autor nastoji dokazati da je svrha Morgenthauove teorije međunarodne politike bio pokušaj da se politika i političko konstituiraju kao odgovor na duboku društvenu i političku krizu modernog Zapada. njegova realistička teorija međunarodne politike nije samo akademski pothvat nego i svojevrstan politički projekt.Ključne riječi Morgenthau, međunarodna politika, političko, moć, interes 172 anali Hrvatskog političkog društva 2017 uvjetovana egoističnima i proračunatim nagonima za stjecanjem moći.No Morgenthau je i danas klasik koji nudi odgovore na najprijepornija pitanja o stanju discipline međunarodnih odnosa i njezine sposobnosti da objasni suvremenu međunarodnu politiku. Njegova su djela u posljednjih desetak godina pobudila poseban interes istraživača međunarodnih odnosa (Peterson 1999;Lebow 2003;Molloy 2004;Williams 2005Williams , 2007Bell 2009;Neascu 2009;Jütersonke 2010; Behr i Rösch 2013;Rösch 2013, Navari 2017. Rezultat je toga istraživačkog pothvata trojak. Prvo, osporena je općeprihvaćena akademska predodžba o Morgenthauu kao doktrinarnom zagovorniku politike moći. Drugo, otkrivena su njegova manje poznata djela, kako iz međuratnog razdoblja tako i iz šezdesetih godina, koja pokazuju da je riječ o političkom misliocu koji je svoju teoriju međunarodne politike izveo kao sintezu određenih europskih škola mišljenja u filozofiji, političkoj teoriji, sociologiji i pravu.2 Time nije bačeno novo svjetlo samo na Morgenthaua kao teoretičara međunarodne politike nego, i to ponajviše, na njegovu političku teoriju koja odgovara suvremenim propitivanjima političke znanosti te upućuje na promišljanje mogućnosti rekonstitucije politike kao autonomne sfere javnog prostora. Treće, u traganju za bitnim kategorijama koje "otkrivaju" polje politike i omogućuju njezino razumijevanje, njegova nas misao "vraća" na stare teme politike i političkoga, politič-2 O intelektualnim utjecajima na razvoj svoje teorije međunarodne politike svjedočio je sam Morgenthau kada je u razgovoru za jedan američki časopis 1967. sastavio popis knjiga koje su presudno utjecale na oblikovanje njegove političke misli: Ljudsko stanje Hannah Arendt, Aristotelova Politika, Carrova Dvadesetogodišnja kriza, Hamiltonovi Federalistički spisi, Platonova Gozba, Pascalove Misli, Niebuhrova Priroda i sud bina čovjeka te Weberovi politički spisi i Nietzscheova filozofska djela.ke konstitucije suv...

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The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations

Cited by 324 publications

References 131 publications

An alternative vision of politics and violence: Introducing mimetic theory in international studies

An alternative vision of politics and violence: Introducing mimetic theory in international studies

Explorando la distinción política interna - política internacional: un estado del arte de la discusión

K teoriji međunarodne politike Hansa J. Morgenthaua

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