Toward an International Political Theology

Kubálková, Vendulka

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“…It is no longer tenable and it amounts to naivety to overlook or treat as inconsequential the impact of religion in the contemporary nation-state system and its sovereign paraphernalia. For as Kubalkova (2006) cautions "if we in the field of international relations think that these pathologies, and the consequences of ignoring them, are the proper subject of some other field of inquiry, then we become irrelevant to modern society". Therefore, the rationalist ontology of the discipline and the conservatism that underlie it need to be transcended.…”

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Religious Resurgence and International Relations Mainstream Theories: The Imperative for Theoretical Rethink and expansion

Mgba

Ukpere

2013

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This paper examines the implications of religious resurgence for international relations (IR). It argues that the rationalist character of IR mainstream theories makes them reluctant to factor in religion into the analysis of international relations but instead treat religion as being irrelevant in the conduct of state actors. However, the paper takes exception to this foundational position and avers inter alia that religion transcends the unobservable spiritual meaning to material reality with grave repercussions for the working of the international system and the foreign policy of states. The paper recommends a rethink and expansion of IR discipline to accommodate the ever visible impact of religion in international relations.

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Religious Resurgence and International Relations Mainstream Theories: The Imperative for Theoretical Rethink and expansion

Mgba

Ukpere

2013

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“…En la creciente bibliografía que explora el papel de la religión y la teología tanto en Westfalia como en las relaciones internacionales en general podrían mencionarse, por ejemplo, "The religious roots of modern international relations" (Philpott, 2000), "International Political Theology" (Kubálková, 2006) o Christian theology and World Politics (Mia Luoma-Aho, 2013), por no mencionar la inmensa cantidad de artículos y libros sobre el papel de la religión en el terrorismo internacional o en la configuración de identidades y redes de cooperación. No obstante, hasta donde se logra ver aquí, todos los trabajos mencionados realizan su análisis desde una epistemología y ontología modernas.…”

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El sistema westfaliano: un análisis desde la teología política de Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Molina

2017

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<p>En este artículo, se quieren analizar las características principales del sistema westfaliano a partir de la teología política que Nicolás Gómez Dávila desarrolla en Textos I. Principalmente, se intentará mostrar que los Estados westfalianos toman los atributos de Dios y sustituyen a la divinidad en el papel que tenía en la Edad Media: reclaman para sí mismos la soberanía y la fundamentación axiológica y ontológica de los elementos del sistema. A partir de lo anterior, el artículo pretende señalar y analizar varios puntos. Primero, la anarquía estructural que surge con Westfalia no es un mero hecho político, sino que también es producto de una decisión teológica fundamental: quitarle a Dios la soberanía y autoridad supremas que jerarquizaban el sistema medieval para dividirlas entre Estados formalmente iguales en situación de anarquía. Segundo, el sistema internacional moderno es nihilista, puesto que con la muerte de Dios ya no hay un orden absoluto de las cosas, sino una situación en la que solo la fuerza de la voluntad estatal decide lo que tiene valor o no. Tercero, la diferencia interpretativa que hay entre Gómez Dávila y las narrativas tradicionales puede leerse como una lucha ideológica por darle contenido a un significante vacío en el sentido de Žižek. Finalmente, la postura de Gómez Dávila podría leerse como una hermenéutica de la sospecha que desvela los aspectos teológicos ocultos en un fenómeno aparentemente secular como el sistema westfaliano.</p>

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“…Philpott 2000Philpott , 2002Kubálková 2000Kubálková , 2003Kubálková , 2009Fox and Sandler 2004;Hurd 2004;Leustean 2005;Philpott and Shah 2006;Kratochvíl 2009;Sandal 2011; for comparative politics see Gill 2001). 4 Jeffrey Haynes (2011Haynes ( , 2012, for instance, comments individually on all the key IR theoretical traditions and their relation to religion while others underline specifically the role of social constructivism, which is best able to bridge the gap between the study of international relations and that of sociology of religion (Hassner 2009).…”

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“…Leustean (2005), on the contrary, suggests starting with the micro-level and strengthening the research by incorporating the activities and perceptions of individuals, too. An even more radical rethinking of the whole IR theory was proposed by Vendulka Kubálková (2000). In her influential piece, where she defended the establishment of international political theology, she addressed the question whether religion can be simply added to the other phenomena the discipline studied or whether an epistemological transformation of the whole discipline is needed for the proper understanding of the role of religion.…”

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The European Union and the Catholic Church

Kratochvíl

Doležal

2015

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The main purpose of this series is to provide and sustain excellence in international relations research in and on Central Europe. The series aims to provide readers with high quality publications from scholars conducting IR research from the Central and Eastern European (CEE) perspectives that will resonate with the IR community as well as practitioners in and beyond the region. Reflecting on the range and depth of research and scholarship in this region, this series welcomes original and innovative contributions from established IR researchers who have helped to establish the IR field in Central and Eastern Europe as well as by emerging scholars who are building on this tradition. The series is purposely interdisciplinary and welcomes studies which examine IR topics from the CEE perspectives in international politics. These perspectives are shaped by the experience of small states vs. great powers' interests, regionalisation, national minorities, the role of international institutions, the position between the West and East broadly defined, as well as intellectual traditions.

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Toward an International Political Theology

Cited by 28 publications

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Religious Resurgence and International Relations Mainstream Theories: The Imperative for Theoretical Rethink and expansion

Religious Resurgence and International Relations Mainstream Theories: The Imperative for Theoretical Rethink and expansion

El sistema westfaliano: un análisis desde la teología política de Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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