Aktivitet
Filter
Tøm alle filtre
Frokostseminar: Krigen og forskningen
18. januar inviterer vi til lanseringsseminar av den nye fokusspalten i tidsskriftet Internasjonal Politikk.
KRONIKK: Russerne er ikke kollektivt skyldige i Putins krig
Performing Statehood through Crises: Citizens, Strangers, Territory
Forskningen på krisehåndtering ser i liten grad på variasjonen i hvordan en og samme aktør bruker ulike verktøy og fremhever ulike sider ved sin identitet avhengig av hva slags krise det er snakk om. I denne artikkelen analyserer Iver Neumann og Ole Jacob Sending hvordan Utenriksdepartementet fremstår som en ulik aktør avhengig av om det er snakk om en sikkerhetskrise, en humanitær krise, eller en sivil krise. Forfatterne reflekterer over hva dette forteller oss om statens (ulike) fasetter og i hvor stor grad tilgjengelige handlingsalternativer avgjør hva slags type stat som trer frem gjennom ulike typer kriser.
Russlandskonferansen 2021
Årets Russlandskonferanse vil vise fram breidda av norsk Russlandsforskning. Utanriksminister Anniken Huitfeldt held opningsinnlegget.
Blir koronakrisen dødsstøtet for den liberale verdensorden?
USA ser ut til å snuble i håndteringen. Det åpner døren for Kina, skriver forskningssjef Ole Jacob Sending og tidligere NUPI-kollega Iver B. Neumann i Aftenposten.
Preface
Foreign and security policy have long been removed from the political pressures that influence other areas of policymaking. This has led to a tendency to separate the analytical levels of the individual and the collective. Using Lacanian theory, which views the subject as ontologically incomplete and desiring a perfect identity which is realised in fantasies, or narrative scenarios, this book shows that the making of foreign policy is a much more complex process. Emotions and affect play an important role, even where ‘hard’ security issues, such as the use of military force, are concerned. Eberle constructs a new theoretical framework for analysing foreign policy by capturing the interweaving of both discursive and affective aspects in policymaking. He uses this framework to explain Germany’s often contradictory foreign policy towards the Iraq crisis of 2002/2003, and the emotional, even existential, public debate that accompanied it. This book adds to ongoing theoretical debates in International Political Sociology and Critical Security Studies and will be required reading for all scholars working in these areas.
Kinship in International Relations: Introduction and framework
This chapter identifies and discusses some of the ways in which kinship may be of use to IR scholars. The chapter offers examples of how kinship relations have manifested themselves historically in international relations, seeking to demonstrate how blood kinship from the beginning has been accompanied, reinforced and challenged by metaphorical kinship – that is, how certain non-blood related relations in or via practice come to be treated as kin, with the duties, obligations and expectations that entails.
Kinship in International Relations
While kinship is among the basic organizing principles of all human life, its role in and implications for international politics and relations have been subject to surprisingly little exploration in International Relations (IR) scholarship. This volume is the first volume aimed at thinking systematically about kinship in IR – as an organizing principle, as a source of political and social processes and outcomes, and as a practical and analytical category that not only reflects but also shapes politics and interaction on the international political arena. Contributors trace everyday uses of kinship terminology to explore the relevance of kinship in different political and cultural contexts and to look at interactions taking place above, at and within the state level. The book suggests that kinship can expand or limit actors’ political room for maneuvereon the international political arena, making some actions and practices appear possible and likely, and others less so. As an analytical category, kinship can help us categorize and understand relations between actors in the international arena. It presents itself as a ready-made classificatory system for understanding how entities within a hierarchy are organized in relation to one another, and how this logic is all at once natural and social.
Expertise and Practice: The Evolving Relationship between Study and Practice of Security
The chapter details the evolving relationship between the study and the practice of international security. This relationship is seen as one of differentiation: international security has proliferated into several sub-fields - cyber security, conflict management etc - with increased specialisation of techniques of governing. This specialisation is matched by a differentiation in academic research and expertise, so that there is by now a broad array of different types of security expertise. This differentiation into sub-fields reflects a broader trend also found in other issue-areas.
Diplomacy as Global Governance
The chapter details how diplomacy - the case study being Norwegian diplomacy - is no longer solely about representing the state vis a vis other states. It has evolved to also include governing specific issues. This governance aspect of diplomacy becomes even more interesting as an expression of the transformation of diplomacy when we consider that what is being governed is not directly linked to the security of the state, but to ideals and principles that attain meaning as first and foremost "international" issues or goals. We find evidence of a gradual shift of diplomacy towards governing of international issues, and reflect on what this means for the presentation of the state vis a vis other states.