08.02.11 How Empires emerge
NUPI-notat 786 | 44 sider.
Hvilke mekanismer som ligger til grunn når imperier oppstår er et understudert felt i analyser av hierarki i internasjonale relasjoner. I den foreliggende studien brukes institusjonell teori og relasjonell nettverksanalyse for å konstruere en idealtypisk modell av hvordan imperier konstitueres, og det argumenteres for at denne kan være et nyttig redskap for å analysere maktforhold i aktuell internasjonal politikk.
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Nexon and Wright (2007) have shown how classical social network analysis and newer relational sensibilities can be combined in ideal typical ways to make sense of the governing logics of empires. Whilst their model shows formal imperial ties, I argue that there is a lot happening before these formal ties are established – what one might call ‘preparing the ground’ for imperial logics of rule. For such dynamics, I construct a sup-plementary ideal type to facilitate the empirical study of the formation of imperial ties. To investigate
processes of social formation, I resort to institutional theory. Further, to apply institutional theory in an efficient way in studying the formation of ties, one should focus on micro level phenomena. The new ideal type depicts how informal imperial ties exist in the process of empire formation, how imperial intermediaries are under construc-tion, and how an imperial ‘pincer movement’ helps to construct such informal ties and in-termediaries. Using empirical illustrations, I assess the core mechanisms of Nexon and Wright’s original formulation in light of the new ideal type.
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