K M Fierke
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2217499 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | K M Fierke |
| NOMBRES | K M |
| APELLIDO | Fierke |
| FIRMA | FIERKE K M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6817-5171 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 256 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Beyond IR? Relationality, complementarity and entangled systems
This contribution revisits Shih's mission of relational IR and the Chinese relational school from the perspective of the parallel between quantum physics and ancient Asian philosophies, such as Buddhism and Daoism, asking questions about the significance of relational IR as a contradiction or complementarity, the nature of relational systems, and the role of conversation and translation in an unfolding world. It concludes with a reflection on tim…
A response
The commentary reflects on the contributions to the forum in light of the overall objectives of Snapshots from Home: Mind, Action and Strategy in an Uncertain World
The Safety Paradox
The discussion between the developing and developed world in Egypt during COP27 brought the history of colonialism and its impact on climate change to the table, as did the earlier floods in Pakistan. The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of unacknowledged grief, shame and guilt, accruing over centuries, on our ability to move forward to a more sustainable future. At stake is not only a question of 'loss and damage' for those who hav…
Snapshots from Home
Snapshots from Home
Taking a broadly interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a unique angle on the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for global theory and practice. The book bridges two important debates regarding the relevance of quantum theory to the social sciences, and the pressing need for a more global international relations. The book brings the parallels between quantum physics and ancient Asian traditions — Daoism, Buddhism and Hinduism — to an …
Those Who Left/Are Left Behind
Those left behind” was a recurring emphasis of media depictions of the emotions surrounding the departure of those who left Afghanistan. The relationship between “those who left” and “those left behind,” which is characteristic of any context of forced displacement, relates to potentials, compelled by life and death questions. A decision to leave or stay is on the surface a binary choice, defined by the physical impossibility of doing both. The p…
Grand Strategy Beyond the West
This chapter examines two of the most famous grand strategies with origins in Asia, identified with Sun Tzu and Gandhi. On the surface they would appear to be unfit for comparison. While Sun Tzu belongs to a tradition of military strategy, and is now part of the classical canon, Gandhi is identified with the nonviolent strategy of nonstate actors. The intention in examining the two together is to explore a family resemblance in their respective c…
To ‘see’ is to break an entanglement
This article seeks to explore the quantum notion that to ‘see’ an entanglement is to break it in the context of an ‘experiment’ regarding the ongoing impact of traumatic political memory on the present. The analysis is a product of collaboration over the past four years between the two authors, one a scholar of international relations, the other a therapeutic practitioner with training in medical physics. Our focus is the conceptual claim that ‘s…
Global conversations
The ‘global turn’ in International Relations (IR), like postcolonial and decolonising approaches, moves away from the Eurocentric dominance of the discipline, and towards the inclusion of plural perspectives on global politics. The article investigates what such a call means in epistemological and ontological terms by focusing on the concept of ‘global conversations’. In section I, we show that the concept of ‘global’ conversations necessarily sh…
Contraria sunt Complementa
The physicist Niels Bohr identified a parallel between quantum physics and Daoism and Buddhism. This parallel maps onto two debates regarding global IR, on the one hand, and the implications of quantum physics for the social sciences, on the other, highlighting the potential for a conversation between them. The quantum arguments unsettle the hierarchy between “positivists” and “reflectivists,” raising a question of which science, while Daoism and…
Critical Theory, Security, and Emancipation
Critical theory in International Relations originated from the Marxist tradition which, during the mid- to late Cold War, formed the basis of dependency and world systems theory. In the years before and after the Cold War, critical theory became part of a larger post-positivist challenge to the discipline and to the development of critical security studies. At the heart of contestation within the broader arena of critical security is the concept …
Introduction
This article introduces a special issue, exploring some of the themes that tie the articles together and relevant conceptual issues
Consciousness at the Interface
Drawing on the family resemblance between quantum physics and Eastern wisdom identified by Niels Bohr, this article brings insights from Buddhism and Daoism to the task of enhancing our understanding of the significance of Alexander Wendt’s argument for a quantum-based social science. Five areas of overlap between his argument and Eastern wisdom are explored: vitalism and the idea that life goes “all the way down”; the dependence of consciousness…
Emotions as Moral Judgments
Reason and Emotion in International Ethics is a path-breaking contribution to the cutting-edge literature on emotion that is blossoming in IR (see, for instance, Ahall and Gregory 2015 ; Bleiker and Hutchison 2014 ; Fierke 2013 ; Ross 2014 ). In a sophisticated and scholarly manner, Renee Jeffery tackles the core issue that has stood in the way of taking emotions seriously, that is, the overwhelming dominance of rationalism, and the corresponding…
Constructing International Relations
PART I: RECONSIDERING CONSTRUCTIVISM 1. Constructivism as an Approach to Interdisciplinary Study, Friedrich V. Kratochwil 2. Four Levels and a Discipline, Knud Erik Jorgensen 3. Constructivisms in International Relations: Wendt, Onuf and Kratochwil, Maja Zehfuss 4. Feminism: Constructivism's Other Pedigree, Birgit Locher and Elisabeth Prugl 5. What Systems Theory Can Tell Us about Constructivism, Mathias Albert PART II: PRACTICING CONSTRUCTIVISM …
Emotion and intentionality
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Who is my neighbour? Memories of the Holocaust/al Nakbaand a global ethic of care
The main question raised by the notion of a global ethic of care is one of how care is to be extended into ever larger spaces. Is it possible to go beyond conventions that attempt to limit harm to extending care, even to those who pose a potential threat of harm? The article begins with an analysis of one prominent, but potentially problematic, argument by Avishai Margalit about why the notion of a specifically global ethic of care is difficult i…
Political Self-Sacrifice
Over the last decade the increasing phenomenon of suicide terrorism has raised questions about how it might be rational for individuals to engage in such acts. This book examines a range of different forms of political self-sacrifice, including hunger strikes, self-burning and non-violent martyrdom, all of which have taken place in resistance to foreign interference. Karin Fierke sets out to study the strategic and emotional dynamics that arise f…
The Warden's Dilemma
Many of the violent conflicts of the post-Cold War period have involved peoples who have historically been victims of interstate politics. Compromise is highly problematic in contexts of this kind, given that sovereign powers tend to attach the label ‘terrorism’ to acts of resistance and the resistance tends to claim an experience of injustice. Given a situation where compromise is seen by actors on both sides to be impossible, how would anything…
Agents of death
While the strategic objectives of those who organize suicide terrorism may be explained in rationalist terms, the choice of those who volunteer to be candidates for death is far more problematic, given the high premium, at least within international relations theory, on survival as the ultimate rational end. The rational choice model also makes it difficult to take language or emotion into account as factors in constituting the meaning of the act…
Terrorism and trust in Northern Ireland
While terrorism produces certainty that the ‘other’ intends to do harm, and chronic uncertainty about the potential for terrorist attack, trust requires the negotiation of uncertainty. This paper begins with a review of the existing literature on trust and terrorism, as a point of departure for analysing the usefulness of thinking about trust as the negotiation of uncertainty. The four substantive sections that follow examine the 1981 Hunger stri…
A Clash of Emotions
After the attacks of 9/11 Americans asked, `Why do they hate us so much?' The answer has been framed in terms of a range of `clashes', none of which has addressed emotion, which is at the centre of the question. Emotion, and particularly humiliation, has begun to be addressed within the literature of IR. Numerous scholars have highlighted the pervasiveness of a discourse of humiliation in the Middle East and its relationship to the swelling ranks…
Whereof we can speak, thereof we must not be silent
In cases such as World War I grief or trauma were nearly universal in the European context and a direct consequence of a political experience of war. This article asks whether widespread social suffering may have a social and political expression that is larger than the sum of traumatised or bereaved individuals. Section 1 explores Martha Nussbaum's theory of emotion, particularly as it relates to grief and compassion and uses this to build two c…
Links Across the Abyss
Constructivists have distanced themselves from questions of language in order to engage the positivist mainstream in dialogue. Yet language has played a central role in one important strand of positivism. Current debates in international relations assume a question about whether language is important. This article asks how or why language is important to the study of IR by exploring two distinct phases of the linguistic turn. The first phase, ass…
Divided by a Common Language
(2001). Divided by a Common Language: Formal and Constructivist Approaches to Games. Global Society: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 7-25
Links Across the Abyss
Constructivists have distanced themselves from questions of language in order to engage the positivist mainstream in dialogue. Yet language has played a central role in one important strand of positivism. Current debates in international relations assume a question about whether language is important. This article asks how or why language is important to the study of IR by exploring two distinct phases of the linguistic turn. The first phase, ass…
Constructing institutional interests
This article examines the parallel process of NATO and EU enlargement. The analysis is motivated by both an empirical and a theoretical concern. It asks why both organizations are enlarging, despite questions about the materially based interest in doing so. It then raises a related theoretical question about how organizations know their interests and how these interests are transformed. The relationship between three concepts - speech acts, conte…
A Clash of Emotions
After the attacks of 9/11 Americans asked, `Why do they hate us so much?' The answer has been framed in terms of a range of `clashes', none of which has addressed emotion, which is at the centre of the question. Emotion, and particularly humiliation, has begun to be addressed within the literature of IR. Numerous scholars have highlighted the pervasiveness of a discourse of humiliation in the Middle East and its relationship to the swelling ranks…
Whereof we can speak, thereof we must not be silent
In cases such as World War I grief or trauma were nearly universal in the European context and a direct consequence of a political experience of war. This article asks whether widespread social suffering may have a social and political expression that is larger than the sum of traumatised or bereaved individuals. Section 1 explores Martha Nussbaum's theory of emotion, particularly as it relates to grief and compassion and uses this to build two c…
Consciousness at the Interface
Drawing on the family resemblance between quantum physics and Eastern wisdom identified by Niels Bohr, this article brings insights from Buddhism and Daoism to the task of enhancing our understanding of the significance of Alexander Wendt’s argument for a quantum-based social science. Five areas of overlap between his argument and Eastern wisdom are explored: vitalism and the idea that life goes “all the way down”; the dependence of consciousness…
Divided by a Common Language
(2001). Divided by a Common Language: Formal and Constructivist Approaches to Games. Global Society: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 7-25
Multiple Identities, Interfacing Games
This article explores an alternative approach to the analysis of patterns in International Relations. These patterns are not to be found in recurring cause-effect sequences, but in shared rules, drawn from the past, by which actions are constituted. The metatheoretical approach builds on the later work of Wittgenstein, and particularly his use of `language games'. The approach is applied to a cursory analysis of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The…
To ‘see’ is to break an entanglement
This article seeks to explore the quantum notion that to ‘see’ an entanglement is to break it in the context of an ‘experiment’ regarding the ongoing impact of traumatic political memory on the present. The analysis is a product of collaboration over the past four years between the two authors, one a scholar of international relations, the other a therapeutic practitioner with training in medical physics. Our focus is the conceptual claim that ‘s…
Agents of death
While the strategic objectives of those who organize suicide terrorism may be explained in rationalist terms, the choice of those who volunteer to be candidates for death is far more problematic, given the high premium, at least within international relations theory, on survival as the ultimate rational end. The rational choice model also makes it difficult to take language or emotion into account as factors in constituting the meaning of the act…
Dialogues of Manoeuvre and Entanglement
Global conversations
The ‘global turn’ in International Relations (IR), like postcolonial and decolonising approaches, moves away from the Eurocentric dominance of the discipline, and towards the inclusion of plural perspectives on global politics. The article investigates what such a call means in epistemological and ontological terms by focusing on the concept of ‘global conversations’. In section I, we show that the concept of ‘global’ conversations necessarily sh…
Contraria sunt Complementa
The physicist Niels Bohr identified a parallel between quantum physics and Daoism and Buddhism. This parallel maps onto two debates regarding global IR, on the one hand, and the implications of quantum physics for the social sciences, on the other, highlighting the potential for a conversation between them. The quantum arguments unsettle the hierarchy between “positivists” and “reflectivists,” raising a question of which science, while Daoism and…
Terrorism and trust in Northern Ireland
While terrorism produces certainty that the ‘other’ intends to do harm, and chronic uncertainty about the potential for terrorist attack, trust requires the negotiation of uncertainty. This paper begins with a review of the existing literature on trust and terrorism, as a point of departure for analysing the usefulness of thinking about trust as the negotiation of uncertainty. The four substantive sections that follow examine the 1981 Hunger stri…
Emotion and intentionality
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Those Who Left/Are Left Behind
Those left behind” was a recurring emphasis of media depictions of the emotions surrounding the departure of those who left Afghanistan. The relationship between “those who left” and “those left behind,” which is characteristic of any context of forced displacement, relates to potentials, compelled by life and death questions. A decision to leave or stay is on the surface a binary choice, defined by the physical impossibility of doing both. The p…
Introduction
This article introduces a special issue, exploring some of the themes that tie the articles together and relevant conceptual issues
Besting the West
Besting the West' applies the concept of a 'gender game and strategy' to an analysis of the changing Russian response to NATO expansion from the end of the Cold War through the signing of the NATO-Russia Founding Act in May 1997. The article is divided into three sections. The first explores the concept of a gender game, and analyses the feminized gendering of Russia within the post-Cold War Russian press. The second examines a strategy and tacti…
Beyond IR? Relationality, complementarity and entangled systems
This contribution revisits Shih's mission of relational IR and the Chinese relational school from the perspective of the parallel between quantum physics and ancient Asian philosophies, such as Buddhism and Daoism, asking questions about the significance of relational IR as a contradiction or complementarity, the nature of relational systems, and the role of conversation and translation in an unfolding world. It concludes with a reflection on tim…
Who is my neighbour? Memories of the Holocaust/al Nakbaand a global ethic of care
The main question raised by the notion of a global ethic of care is one of how care is to be extended into ever larger spaces. Is it possible to go beyond conventions that attempt to limit harm to extending care, even to those who pose a potential threat of harm? The article begins with an analysis of one prominent, but potentially problematic, argument by Avishai Margalit about why the notion of a specifically global ethic of care is difficult i…
The Warden's Dilemma
Many of the violent conflicts of the post-Cold War period have involved peoples who have historically been victims of interstate politics. Compromise is highly problematic in contexts of this kind, given that sovereign powers tend to attach the label ‘terrorism’ to acts of resistance and the resistance tends to claim an experience of injustice. Given a situation where compromise is seen by actors on both sides to be impossible, how would anything…
Underrepresentation of Female Referents as Pronouns, Examples and Pictures in Introductory College Textbooks
A series of recent studies have investigated the impact of male referents such as “he” and “mankind” on the gender that listeners and readers attribute to a statement. A review of these experiments provides compelling evidence that underrepresentation of similar female referents leads people to attribute the roles presented as more representative of males than females. The review also suggests that the attributional bias is robust and not attenua…
Multiple Identities, Interfacing Games
This article explores an alternative approach to the analysis of patterns in International Relations. These patterns are not to be found in recurring cause-effect sequences, but in shared rules, drawn from the past, by which actions are constituted. The metatheoretical approach builds on the later work of Wittgenstein, and particularly his use of `language games'. The approach is applied to a cursory analysis of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The…
Besting the West
Besting the West' applies the concept of a 'gender game and strategy' to an analysis of the changing Russian response to NATO expansion from the end of the Cold War through the signing of the NATO-Russia Founding Act in May 1997. The article is divided into three sections. The first explores the concept of a gender game, and analyses the feminized gendering of Russia within the post-Cold War Russian press. The second examines a strategy and tacti…
Dialogues of Manoeuvre and Entanglement
Constructing institutional interests
This article examines the parallel process of NATO and EU enlargement. The analysis is motivated by both an empirical and a theoretical concern. It asks why both organizations are enlarging, despite questions about the materially based interest in doing so. It then raises a related theoretical question about how organizations know their interests and how these interests are transformed. The relationship between three concepts - speech acts, conte…
Logics of Force and Dialogue
Over the last decade, the USA and Britain have argued that Saddam Hussein only understands the language of force. Based on this reasoning, the Agreement on Mutual Understanding in early 1998 was made possible by the threat of force. The purpose of this article is to ask what happens if we analyse the agreement as arising out of a process of social interaction — as opposed to a monologue of force. In the first section of the article I explore a th…
Divided by a Common Language
(2001). Divided by a Common Language: Formal and Constructivist Approaches to Games. Global Society: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 7-25
Links Across the Abyss
Constructivists have distanced themselves from questions of language in order to engage the positivist mainstream in dialogue. Yet language has played a central role in one important strand of positivism. Current debates in international relations assume a question about whether language is important. This article asks how or why language is important to the study of IR by exploring two distinct phases of the linguistic turn. The first phase, ass…
Whereof we can speak, thereof we must not be silent
In cases such as World War I grief or trauma were nearly universal in the European context and a direct consequence of a political experience of war. This article asks whether widespread social suffering may have a social and political expression that is larger than the sum of traumatised or bereaved individuals. Section 1 explores Martha Nussbaum's theory of emotion, particularly as it relates to grief and compassion and uses this to build two c…
Agents of death
While the strategic objectives of those who organize suicide terrorism may be explained in rationalist terms, the choice of those who volunteer to be candidates for death is far more problematic, given the high premium, at least within international relations theory, on survival as the ultimate rational end. The rational choice model also makes it difficult to take language or emotion into account as factors in constituting the meaning of the act…
Terrorism and trust in Northern Ireland
While terrorism produces certainty that the ‘other’ intends to do harm, and chronic uncertainty about the potential for terrorist attack, trust requires the negotiation of uncertainty. This paper begins with a review of the existing literature on trust and terrorism, as a point of departure for analysing the usefulness of thinking about trust as the negotiation of uncertainty. The four substantive sections that follow examine the 1981 Hunger stri…
A Clash of Emotions
After the attacks of 9/11 Americans asked, `Why do they hate us so much?' The answer has been framed in terms of a range of `clashes', none of which has addressed emotion, which is at the centre of the question. Emotion, and particularly humiliation, has begun to be addressed within the literature of IR. Numerous scholars have highlighted the pervasiveness of a discourse of humiliation in the Middle East and its relationship to the swelling ranks…
Political Self-Sacrifice
Over the last decade the increasing phenomenon of suicide terrorism has raised questions about how it might be rational for individuals to engage in such acts. This book examines a range of different forms of political self-sacrifice, including hunger strikes, self-burning and non-violent martyrdom, all of which have taken place in resistance to foreign interference. Karin Fierke sets out to study the strategic and emotional dynamics that arise f…
The Warden's Dilemma
Many of the violent conflicts of the post-Cold War period have involved peoples who have historically been victims of interstate politics. Compromise is highly problematic in contexts of this kind, given that sovereign powers tend to attach the label ‘terrorism’ to acts of resistance and the resistance tends to claim an experience of injustice. Given a situation where compromise is seen by actors on both sides to be impossible, how would anything…
Emotion and intentionality
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Who is my neighbour? Memories of the Holocaust/al Nakbaand a global ethic of care
The main question raised by the notion of a global ethic of care is one of how care is to be extended into ever larger spaces. Is it possible to go beyond conventions that attempt to limit harm to extending care, even to those who pose a potential threat of harm? The article begins with an analysis of one prominent, but potentially problematic, argument by Avishai Margalit about why the notion of a specifically global ethic of care is difficult i…
Constructing International Relations
PART I: RECONSIDERING CONSTRUCTIVISM 1. Constructivism as an Approach to Interdisciplinary Study, Friedrich V. Kratochwil 2. Four Levels and a Discipline, Knud Erik Jorgensen 3. Constructivisms in International Relations: Wendt, Onuf and Kratochwil, Maja Zehfuss 4. Feminism: Constructivism's Other Pedigree, Birgit Locher and Elisabeth Prugl 5. What Systems Theory Can Tell Us about Constructivism, Mathias Albert PART II: PRACTICING CONSTRUCTIVISM …
Emotions as Moral Judgments
Reason and Emotion in International Ethics is a path-breaking contribution to the cutting-edge literature on emotion that is blossoming in IR (see, for instance, Ahall and Gregory 2015 ; Bleiker and Hutchison 2014 ; Fierke 2013 ; Ross 2014 ). In a sophisticated and scholarly manner, Renee Jeffery tackles the core issue that has stood in the way of taking emotions seriously, that is, the overwhelming dominance of rationalism, and the corresponding…
Critical Theory, Security, and Emancipation
Critical theory in International Relations originated from the Marxist tradition which, during the mid- to late Cold War, formed the basis of dependency and world systems theory. In the years before and after the Cold War, critical theory became part of a larger post-positivist challenge to the discipline and to the development of critical security studies. At the heart of contestation within the broader arena of critical security is the concept …
Introduction
This article introduces a special issue, exploring some of the themes that tie the articles together and relevant conceptual issues
Consciousness at the Interface
Drawing on the family resemblance between quantum physics and Eastern wisdom identified by Niels Bohr, this article brings insights from Buddhism and Daoism to the task of enhancing our understanding of the significance of Alexander Wendt’s argument for a quantum-based social science. Five areas of overlap between his argument and Eastern wisdom are explored: vitalism and the idea that life goes “all the way down”; the dependence of consciousness…
Contraria sunt Complementa
The physicist Niels Bohr identified a parallel between quantum physics and Daoism and Buddhism. This parallel maps onto two debates regarding global IR, on the one hand, and the implications of quantum physics for the social sciences, on the other, highlighting the potential for a conversation between them. The quantum arguments unsettle the hierarchy between “positivists” and “reflectivists,” raising a question of which science, while Daoism and…
Global conversations
The ‘global turn’ in International Relations (IR), like postcolonial and decolonising approaches, moves away from the Eurocentric dominance of the discipline, and towards the inclusion of plural perspectives on global politics. The article investigates what such a call means in epistemological and ontological terms by focusing on the concept of ‘global conversations’. In section I, we show that the concept of ‘global’ conversations necessarily sh…
To ‘see’ is to break an entanglement
This article seeks to explore the quantum notion that to ‘see’ an entanglement is to break it in the context of an ‘experiment’ regarding the ongoing impact of traumatic political memory on the present. The analysis is a product of collaboration over the past four years between the two authors, one a scholar of international relations, the other a therapeutic practitioner with training in medical physics. Our focus is the conceptual claim that ‘s…
Grand Strategy Beyond the West
This chapter examines two of the most famous grand strategies with origins in Asia, identified with Sun Tzu and Gandhi. On the surface they would appear to be unfit for comparison. While Sun Tzu belongs to a tradition of military strategy, and is now part of the classical canon, Gandhi is identified with the nonviolent strategy of nonstate actors. The intention in examining the two together is to explore a family resemblance in their respective c…
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