Naturen til revolusjonen – frå start til slutt
For å markere etableringa av Senter for historisk internasjonal politikk (CHIP), inviterer vi til foredrag med George Lawson som skal snakke om «Anatomies of Revolution».
A Conceptual History of International Relations
Forelesningen handlet om behovet for en begrepshistorie om internasjonal politikk, og hvordan den kan skrives.
Teoriseminar: Global historie og internasjonale relasjonar
George Lawson frå London School of Economics and Political Science presenterer artikkelen sin “Global History and International Relations”.
The Politics of Diasporas and the Duty of Care: Legitimizing interventions through the protection of kin
The duty of care (DoC) is largely portrayed as being of a benevolent and liberal character, with welfare states aiding its citizens abroad. In this chapter Holm examines a more complex phenomenon involving the DoC: that of a state and its diaspora. Seeing Duty of Care in relation to diasporas poses a conceptual shift: often multinational in identification, with a perceived or real ‘homeland’, and at times with dual (legal) citizenship, diasporas may be sought protected under an extended, non-territorialized notion of belonging to a state’s citizenry. Looking at Russian rhetoric in the Georgia war in 2008 and the Crimean annexation and Ukraine crisis in 2014, Holm explores how the Duty of Care can be evoked rhetorically to defend diaspora groups by kin-states. In relation to a domestic audience, this prism proves highly effective, as the state portrays its actions as defending ‘their’ people abroad out of a moral necessity and responsibility for their kin. It also functions to dismiss international stigma and critique at home based on a perceived higher moral purpose. As in the case of diasporas in inter-state conflicts with Georgia and Ukraine, this turns the Duty of Care into a complicated, and potentially highly politicized, international matter. It also provides a communitarian alternative to the cosmopolitan R2P: in theory, any group can be defined as worth defending as one’s own, across and despite opposing claims to sovereignty. The chapter concludes with discussing the wider ramifications of diaspora group protection by kin-states for challenges to the liberal international order.
Stubbornly Stumbling into Making History: Constructivism and Historical International Relations
The aim of this chapter is threefold; first we try to recollect through the hazy dim of personal history and histories how we eventually became the researchers we are today. Second, we focus on what to us at the time – and, to some extent, still – appeared as contingent, random and haphazard experiences so as to present a more coherent account, an account that we hope may be a useful tool – or at the least a good read – for younger scholars. In the process, we dwell on choices we have made with respect to how we have sought to approach the world; our approach and our sources. Third, we present an attempt at distilling what we see as the lessons that can be drawn from our work and trajectory, what we in hindsight may call “our approach”, in the hope that the reader will find some useful tools for her own research, or that we at the very least help open up a space for this type of reflection. We elaborate on what we perceive to be the benefits of our preferred approach, and how it may be useful for engaging with scholars beyond the confines of Constructivism.
Teoriseminar: Sonic IR
Kva rolle speler lyd i IR-studiar?
Avgrensing av stormakter: Mjuk maktbalansering frå imperietida til den globale æra
I kva situasjonar vel statar mjuke framfor harde former for maktbalansering – altså institusjonelle og økonomiske instrument heller enn formelle militæralliansar og intensiv våpenoppbygging? Når vel dei ein kombinasjon av mjuke og harde midlar? Kva er likskapane og forskjellane mellom korleis mjuk maktbalansering blei praktisert på 1900- og 2000-talet?