International Affairs

On reckoning and repair in the international: revisiting imperialism and race in IR

by Jasmine K. Gani & Jenna Marshall | 5 April 2024, 1030 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Theory & Methods | 0 Comments

THe short-term contributions of the Special Issue have been worthwhile, but there remains a continued concern and challenge that with greater attention paid to race and imperialism in IR, these issues will become co-opted into the game of academic production, sanitised as intellectual curiosities, instead of being treated as matters of life and death that need to be opposed practically and not just on paper.

On the politics of decolonization theory and practice

by Heloise Weber | 5 April 2024, 1000 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Theory & Methods | 0 Comments

International institutional policy, shaped by a globally entrenched explanatory framework of development and underdevelopment, perpetuates the suppression of knowledge production aimed at challenging social, economic, and political injustices by elites across the global South

A reckoning with the traditional diplomatic community

by Patrick Quinton-Brown | 5 April 2024, 0930 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, States & Regions, Theory & Methods | 0 Comments

Intra-elite, state-centric society is a strategic front, and ought to be defended and put to use in the continued development of a global and decolonial turn in IR.

Landmarks and warning signs

by Inderjeet Parmar | 4 April 2024, 1000 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Theory & Methods | 0 Comments

The special issue’s concerns could easily be a passing ‘fad’ as the forces of the status quo bide their time. A focal point on race, necessary as it is, could elide class and material factors’ influence on world politics.

Is Latin America “International” enough for IR?

by Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli | 4 April 2024, 0900 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, States & Regions, Theory & Methods

Even when Latin Americans are allowed to speak, IR scholars and practitioners do not listen to them due to the language in which they produce knowledge, epistemic violence and access barriers.

On the Global Entanglements of Race, Empire, and Knowledge

by Martin Bayly | 3 April 2024, 0940 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Theory & Methods

Decolonial methods, and the bringing of attention to race in knowledge production is necessarily historical. It demands a close re-reading of archives, forgotten texts, and sometimes “canonical” works. As a result, through this special issue and the wider work the authors build upon, we now have a very different understanding of the historical entanglements of race and international affairs knowledge.

Now what?

by Oumar Ba | 3 April 2024, 0935 EDT | International Affairs, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Symposia, Theory & Methods

Now that the myth of “theory-practice gap” has been largely refuted what role might IR and journals like International Affairs play in crafting a “reparative praxis”?

Introduction to the Symposium on “Race and Imperialism in International Relations”

by Jasmine K. Gani & Jenna Marshall | 3 April 2024, 0930 EDT | Academia, International Affairs, Race, Race and Imperialism in International Relations, Theory & Methods

The International Affairs Centenary Special Issue on “Race and Imperialism in International Relations: Theory and Practice” was published two years ago in the aftermath of the global Black Lives Matter movement; it marked an atypical period of introspection by many scholars, departments, and journals of International Relations on the general paucity of attention given to matters of race and imperialism in IR research and teaching.

What If Trump was President When Russia Invaded Ukraine?

by Juliet Kaarbo, Kai Oppermann & Ryan Beasley | 25 September 2023, 0536 EDT | International Affairs, Publications, Security, US Foreign Policy

If Donald Trump was President of the United States when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, instead of Joe Biden, Trump’s personality would have led to a very different U.S. response. Trump would not have swiftly and strongly condemned Russia or clearly sided with Ukraine in the initial stages of the invasion, and he would not have brought together a multilateral front against Russia – as Biden did.

How international organizations can resist political shocks

by Gisela Hirschmann | 4 February 2022, 0900 EST | International Affairs, International Organization

As long as international organizations have existed their relationships with their member states have been conflict-ridden. States use numerous methods to influence international organizations according to their interests or to contest the authority and policies of international organizations, including by reducing financial contribution, threatening withdrawal, and by actually exiting. Between 2014 and 2020, the United States cut its contributions to numerous international organizations, several African states threatened to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, and the United...

(De-)globalisation and International Order

by Markus Kornprobst & T.V. Paul | 24 January 2022, 0930 EST | Featured, International Affairs, International Organization, Journal Articles, Security

Whenever we talk about the liberal international order, we actually also talk about globalization. The former promoted international trade and financial liberalization , the spread of democracies, and the growth of global governance. These, in turn, promoted interdependence. Markers of global economic interdependence — such as global trade flows and global financial direct investment — increased. In integrating regions, and especially among advanced industrial democracies, boundaries lost political and cultural salience. Over the course of the 1990s, Europe took on new significance as an...

6+1 Questions about “Why NATO survived Trump: the neglected role of Secretary-General Stoltenberg”

by Leonard Schuette | 4 November 2021, 1306 EDT | 6+1 Questions, International Affairs, Journal Articles, Security, US Foreign Policy

Not many know that Trump was on the verge of publicly announcing U.S. withdrawal from the alliance at the 2018 summit. Congress would have prevented a formal end to U.S. membership, but Trump’s announcement itself would have caused irreparable damage. Why then did Trump change his position on NATO in 2019? And why was NATO, at least in military terms, in better state when Trump left office than when he began his term?

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