Risk in International Relations

Bibliographic Data

ID4445346
AuthorsWilliam Clapton (0000-0001-5667-3413, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume25
Issue3
Pages280-295
Publication date2011-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0047117811415480
OpenAlexW2082024302
LanguageEN
Citations received21

Risk is a concept that has recently filtered through into International Relations (IR). However, the literature on risk, risk management and IR is still comparatively small and there is still significant scope for the theorisation of these concepts in an IR context. Thus far, the literature on risk and IR has been largely characterised by the debate between critical realist, constructivist and post-structuralist approaches to risk. At the core of these debates is the ontological question of whether risks are 'real' or not. However, this article will suggest that these ontological debates have grown stale and are unhelpful to furthering the research agenda on risk and IR. As this article will demonstrate, we need to systematically develop ways for both explaining risk identification, assessment and management -what might be termed 'riskisation' - and why particular forms of risk management emerge in particular situations and not others

Context (archaeology) · Economics · Epistemology · Identification (biology) · Management · Political science · Risk assessment · Risk management · Scope (computer science) · Sociology · Computer Science · History · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Philosophy