Handbook of Critical International Relations

377 Pages·2020·3.662 MB·English

by  Steven C. Roach , (editor)

HANDBOOK OF CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS

Handbook of Critical International
Relations
Edited by
Steven C. Roach
University of South Florida, USA
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
© Steven C. Roach 2020
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Contents
List of figures vii
List of contributors viii
Acknowledgements xii
1 Introduction to the Handbook of Critical International Relations 1
Steven C. Roach
PART I APPROACHES AND EMANCIPATION
2 Opening up international relations, or: how I learned to stop
worrying and love ‘non-Western IR’ 12
Pinar Bilgin
3 Habermas and international relations: testing the critical limits
of modernity 29
Ben Thirkell-White
4 Emancipation, power, insecurity: Critical Theory and immanent
critique of human security 55
Columba Peoples
5 A critical perspective on emotions in international relations 72
Simon Koschut
6 Critical realism in international relations 90
Ben Luongo
PART II CONCEPTS AND CONFIGURATION
7 Dialectics in critical international relations theory 122
Shannon Brincat and Susan de Groot Heupner
8 Recognition reframed: reconfiguring recognition in global politics 144
Kate Schick
9 Empires at home: critical international relations theory and our
postcolonial moments 162
Alexander D. Barder
10 Instrumental reason 179
Matthew Fluck
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PART III POLITICAL ECONOMY AND DOMINATION
11 Critical international relations and the global organic crisis 202
Stephen Gill
12 Neoliberal authoritarianism in Egypt before and after the
uprisings: a critical international political economy perspective 221
Roberto Roccu
13 Emancipation in critical security studies: political economy,
domination and the everyday 242
João Nunes
14 Slow violence, precarity and the overheating of neoliberal consensus 259
Shomik Chakrabarti
PART IV GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND CHALLENGES
15 Critical animal studies, critical international relations theory,
and anthropocentrism 277
Steven C. Tauber
16 The politics of emotions in contemporary wars 305
Mathias Delori
17 Critical international relations feminism: the case of American
Shia women 324
Raheleh Dayerizadeh
18 The responsibility to protect: the rise of liberal authoritarianism 337
Philip Cunliffe
19 Afterword 348
Steven C. Roach
Index 354
Figures
6.1 Durkheimian and Weberian social theory 102
6.2 Dialectical social theory 103
6.3 The TMSA 104
6.4 Wight’s reconfigured levels-of-analysis 112
6.5 Provisional TMSA model of international politics 115
6.6 Emancipatory model of political transformation 116
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Contributors
Alexander D. Barder is Associate Professor of International Relations at Florida
International University. He was previously Assistant Professor of International
Politics at the American University of Beirut. His current research explores the
relationships between nineteenth- and twentieth-century geopolitics, race and vio-
lence. He is the author of Empire Within: International Hierarchy and its Imperial
Laboratories of Governance (Routledge, 2015).
Pinar Bilgin is Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara. She
is the author of The International in Security, Security in the International (Routledge,
2016) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology
(Routledge, 2017) and Asia in International Relations: Unlearning Imperial Power
Relations (Routledge, 2017).
Shannon Brincat is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. His most recent project, The
Spiral World, traces dialectical thinking in the Axial Age. He has been the editor
of a number of collections, most recently From International Relations to World
Civilizations: The contributions of Robert W. Cox (special issue of Globalizations,
Routledge, 2016) and Dialectics and World Politics (Routledge, 2015). He is also
a co-editor of Global Discourse.
Shomik Chakrabarti is a doctoral student in the School of Interdisciplinary Global
Studies at the University of South Florida.
Philip Cunliffe is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the
University of Kent, which he joined in 2009. He has written widely on a variety of
political issues, ranging from Balkan politics to Brexit, with a particular focus on
international efforts to manage violent conflict since the end of the Cold War.
Raheleh Dayerizadeh is the Global Citizens Project Learning & Development
Facilitator at the University of South Florida. She received her doctorate in
Government and her master’s in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the
University of South Florida. Raheleh does critical constructivist research on social
gender norms and Muslim communities in the United States. Other areas of interest
include post-colonial studies, feminism, and social movements. She speaks fluent
Farsi, and has proficiency in Arabic and Spanish.
Mathias Delori is a political scientist and historian. He is CNRS Associate Research
Professor (chargé de recherche CNRS) at the Centre Emile Durkheim of Sciences
Bordeaux. He is also currently (2019) a visiting professor at Colorado University
Boulder and a research associate at the CERI of Sciences Po Paris and the REPI of
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the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Before getting his position in Bordeaux in 2011,
Mathias was a postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute of Florence
(2008–09), and the Université de Montréal (2009–10). His main research interests are
critical war studies, European integration and the epistemology of the social sciences.
Matthew Fluck is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of
Westminster, UK. He is the author of The Concept of Truth in International Relations
Theory: Critical Thought Beyond Post-Positivism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and
has published articles in the European Journal of International Relations, Review of
International Studies, and Millennium: Journal of International Studies.
Stephen Gill is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science,
Communications and Culture at York University, Toronto. His publications include:
The Global Political Economy: Perspectives, Problems and Policies (with David
Law, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988), American Hegemony and the Trilateral
Commission (Cambridge University Press, 1991), Gramsci, Historical Materialism
and International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1993), Power, Production
and Social Reproduction: Human In/security in the Global Political Economy (with
Isabella Bakker, Palgrave MacMillan, 2003), Power and Resistance in the New
World Order (Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), and New Constitutionalism and World
Order (with Claire Cutler, Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Susan de Groot Heupner is a doctoral candidate at Griffith University, Australia.
Her project looks at the discursive contestation between secular and non-secular
ideal typical social orders in the embodiment of ethno- and religio-politics. Her case
study on the notion of place and space in the modern imaginary of the Caliphate and
liberal democracy intends to show the reciprocal and dialectical relation between
these framed antagonists.
Simon Koschut is a Heisenberg Fellow at the Otto Suhr Institute at the Freie
Universität Berlin, Germany. His research interests include Security Studies, Peace
and Conflict Studies, and International Relations Theory, in particular regional
security governance, norm research in international relations, and emotions in
world politics. His most recent book, Normative Change and Security Community
Disintegration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), received the Ernst Otto Czempiel Award
for the best post-doctoral monograph published in the field of peace research. Other
work has appeared in the Review of International Studies, International Studies
Review, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, and Cooperation and Conflict.
He is the editor of the book series Critical Emotion Research (Brill).
Ben Luongo recently received his Ph.D. in Government from the University of South
Florida. His research focuses on the role that emotion plays in structuring world
politics and how emotion, as a burgeoning interest in international relations, provides
new ways to study political phenomena. He teaches classes at University of South
Florida’s School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies as well as classes for the Honors
College.