M C Williams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 53351 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M C Williams |
| NOMBRES | M C |
| APELLIDO | Williams |
| FIRMA | WILLIAMS M C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8814-8664 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 88 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1114 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
The Emergence of a Global Radical Right
When the American activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in September 2025, his death was mourned by radical conservatives around the world. This outpouring of grief is but one illustration of the expanding and deepening networks of the radical conservative movement. For all their differences, radical conservatives increasingly see themselves as part of a global movement with a shared agenda—united by their perceived persecution by the same globa…
International relations and the revolutionary geopolitics of the European New Right
The international politics of the 21st century has seen a remarkable surge in geopolitical thinking and rhetoric, in evocations of both Europe and the West, and in widespread challenges to US hegemony and liberal norms and institutions. This article examines one of the most troubling and increasingly influential contributions to these developments, namely that of the European New Right. For nearly half a century, radical conservative intellectual…
The crisis of the conservative international order
The crisis of the liberal international order (LIO) is the dominant narrative of our time. It pervades scholarship, journalism and policy discussion, influencing the ways we see contemporary global tensions, future possibilities and political choices. This article argues that the current crisis is not simply a crisis of the LIO, but of the CIO-the conservative international order. The postwar order was not constructed by liberals alone. It was al…
World of the Right
The contemporary radical Right is not merely a series of nationalist projects but a global phenomenon. This book shows how radical conservative thinkers have developed long-term counter-hegemonic strategies that challenge prevailing social and political orders both nationally and internationally. At the heart of this ideological project is a critique of liberal globalisation that seeks to mobilise transversal alliances against a common enemy: the…
Radical Right Dystopias in the Global Culture Wars
Despite the pervasive description of our times as dystopian, the disciplines of political theory and international relations seldom consider the political power of dystopian imaginaries. This article seeks to remedy this neglect by focusing on the radical Right's invocation of dystopias. These dystopian narratives go beyond mere scaremongering and constitute instead “critical dystopias” that follow a distinct grammar rooted in the radical Right's…
The Darkness at the End of History
From critique to reaction
Across the globe, radical conservative political forces and ideas are influencing and even transforming the landscape of international politics. Yet IR is remarkably ill-equipped to understand and engage these new challenges. Unlike political theory or domestic political analyses, conservatism has no distinctive place in the fields’ defining alternatives of realism, liberalism, Marxism, and constructivism. This paper seeks to provide a point of e…
The radical Right, realism, and the politics of conservatism in postwar international thought
The rise of the radical Right over the last decade has created a situation that demands engagement with the intellectual origins, achievements, and changing worldviews of radical conservative forces. Yet, conservative thought seems to have no distinct place in the theoretical field that has structured debates within the discipline of IR since 1945. This article seeks to explain some of the reasons for this absence. In the first part, we argue tha…
America first
This article provides an engagement with American paleoconservatism at the level of its intellectual foundations. Although relatively unknown in the mainstream media, this anti-establishment strain of radical conservatism has provided intellectual ammunition to a wide range of agents and ideological forces challenging the prevailing liberal order nationally and internationally, positions that have at different times resonated with political movem…
Confronting the International Political Sociology of the New Right
The rise of radical right-wing leaders, parties, movements, and ideas have transformed not only domestic political landscapes but also the direction and dynamics of international relations. Yet for all their emphasis on nationalist identity, on 'America First' and 'Taking Back Control,' there is an unmistakable international dimension to contemporary nationalist, populist movements. Yet these movements are also often transnationally linked. We ar…
Horizon Scan
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
The view from Mars
Challenges to the liberal international order have tended to focus on the politics of populism most often traced to reactions against economic dislocation and mass migration. Parts of this portrait are undoubtedly true, but it also risks being deeply misleading. To fully understand the nature and depth of contemporary far-right movements, we need to examine more closely the distinctive ideological movements that inform and animate them. This arti…
Radical conservatism and global order
The rise of the radical ‘New Right’ (NR) across much of the global political landscape is one of the most striking political developments of recent years. This article seeks to foster international theory’s critical engagement with the NR by providing an overview of its thinking about world politics and the challenges it presents. We argue that in many ways international theory is in fact uniquely positioned to provide such an engagement, and tha…
International Relations in the Age of the Image
Images pervade contemporary politics. Across the globe, people receive more and more of their information and impressions about politics through media outlets saturated with images, while political leaders show increasing skill in melding popular culture and political power. Understanding the aesthetic dimensions of world politics is thus of paramount importance. This article seeks to deepen our understanding of the historical and political relat…
Interlocuting classical realism and critical theory
The history of the discipline of International Relations is usually narrated as a succession of theories that would pursue different ontologies and epistemologies and focus on different problems. This narrative provides some structure to a multifaceted field and its diverse discussions. However, it is also highly problematic as it ignores common problems, intersections and mutual inspirations and overemphasizes divides over eventual commonalities…
Rethinking the Logic of Security
It is a misapprehension that liberalism is a source of state weakness because it is centrally concerned with individual liberty. The core principles of liberalism ... provide not only a theory of freedom, equality, and the public good, but also a discipline of power—the means of creating power as well as controlling it ... . Liberal constitutions serve to protect the state itself from capricious, impulsive, or overreaching decisions ... constitut…
Talking to Hezbollah
The two studies under review, by Matthew Levitt and Lina Khatib et al., present very different pictures of Hezbollah, pictures which are not necessarily conflicting and are indeed, in many ways, complementary. Levitt focuses on the group's long record of terrorism dating back more than 30 years to the early 1980s and its violent attacks on US marines and French forces then based in Lebanon. Over that period, of course, as Lina Khatib and her co-a…
Reviving the Rhetoric of Realism
Realism has conventionally been cast as the antithesis of rhetoric. In contrast, this article argues that recovering the relationship between realism and rethoric is important not only for challenging disciplinary and methodological orthodoxies that obstruct creative theorizing, but also for its incisive contributiuons to thinking about American foreign policy amidst the profound changes and challenges it confronts today
What kind of theory - if any - is securitization
One of the great appeals of securitization theory, and a major reason for its success, has been its usefulness as a tool for empirical research: an analytic framework capable of practical application. However, the development of securitization has raised several criticisms, the most important of which concern the nature of securitization theory. In fact, the appropriate methods, the research puzzles and type of evidence accepted all derive to a g…
From Strategy to Security
Critical Security Studies
Culture and Security
This book examines the role of culture in contemporary security policies, providing a critical overview of the ways in which culture has been theorized in security studies. Developing a theoretical framework that stresses the relationship between culture, power, security and strategy, the volume argues that cultural practices have been central to transformations in European and US security policy in the wake of the Cold War – including the evolut…
Critical Security Studies
This text takes issue with arguments that studies is a discipline of limited use in making sense of the post-Cold War world. It argues that many of the most interesting theoretical issues in international relations can most usefully be studied through a prism labelled studies. The book combines chapters which provide a variety of critical perspectives on the discipline and address a diverse range of theoretical concerns, with chapters that examin…
The Atlantic realists
Realism reconsidered
Introduction 1. Morgenthau, Agency and Aristotle 2. 'The Twilight of International Morality'? Hans J. Morgenthau and Carl Schmitt on the end of the Jus Publicum Europaeum 3. Carl Schmitt and Hans Morgenthau: Realism and Beyond 4. The Image of Law in Politics Among Nations 5. Realism, Tragedy and the Anti-Pelagian Imagination in International Political Thought. 6. The balance of power in Politics Among Nations 7. Hans Morgenthau and the Cold War 8…
Words, Images, Enemies
The theory of “securitization” developed by the Copenhagen School provides one of the most innovative, productive, and yet controversial avenues of research in contemporary security studies. This article provides an assessment of the foundations of this approach and its limitations, as well as its significance for broader areas of International Relations theory. Locating securitization theory within the context of both classical Realism influence…
Security Beyond the State
Journal Article Security Beyond the State: Global Security Assemblages in International Politics Get access Rita Abrahamsen, Rita Abrahamsen University of Ottawa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael C. Williams Michael C. Williams University of Ottawa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 1–17, htt…
Why Ideas Matter in International Relations
Debates over how ideas matter in international relations have come to occupy a key place in the field. Through a reexamination of the thinking of Hans Morgenthau, this article seeks to recover a tradition of classical realism that stressed the role of ideas in both the construction of action and in political and ethical judgment. Locating Morgenthau's understanding of politics against the background of the oppositional "concept of the political" …
Critical Security Studies
From Alliance to Security Community
The evolution of NATO constitutes one of the most important developments in post-Cold War international security. Despite predictions of fragmentation from within or supercession from above, the Alliance has emerged as a — perhaps the — dominant institution in contemporary security relations. While debates in the late 1980s often revolved around whether NATO would, could, or should survive, they now centre around the implications of its centralit…
Hobbes and international relations
Hobbes has long been a central figure in the theory of international relations. He has also been a badly misunderstood one. While often invoked to support contemporary theories of international politics, Hobbes's thinking actually challenges rational-choice theories, the structural realism of Kenneth Waltz, and the “rationalist” approach of the English school. Indeed, the skeptical foundations of his political vision place him closer to contempor…
Securitization and the liberalism of fear
This article seeks to extend securitization theory conceptually and, to a lesser degree, empirically by further developing the relationship between securitization and the politics of fear. Drawing on Shklar’s notion of the liberalism of fear, it argues that instead of looking at the ways in which fear can facilitate processes of securitization and the extension of security logics throughout society, the liberalism of fear allows us to see how fea…
Radical conservatism and global order
The rise of the radical ‘New Right’ (NR) across much of the global political landscape is one of the most striking political developments of recent years. This article seeks to foster international theory’s critical engagement with the NR by providing an overview of its thinking about world politics and the challenges it presents. We argue that in many ways international theory is in fact uniquely positioned to provide such an engagement, and tha…
International Relations in the Age of the Image
Images pervade contemporary politics. Across the globe, people receive more and more of their information and impressions about politics through media outlets saturated with images, while political leaders show increasing skill in melding popular culture and political power. Understanding the aesthetic dimensions of world politics is thus of paramount importance. This article seeks to deepen our understanding of the historical and political relat…
The Discipline of the Democratic Peace
The theory that democratic states do not go to war with one another depends upon the claim that such states can recognize each other as democracies and act pacifically in accordance with this recognition. This article argues that analyses of the democratic peace and security communities can benefit from a fuller and more critical engagement with the thinking of Immanuel Kant. Kantian liberalism involves subtle yet powerful processes of identity c…
Confronting the International Political Sociology of the New Right
The rise of radical right-wing leaders, parties, movements, and ideas have transformed not only domestic political landscapes but also the direction and dynamics of international relations. Yet for all their emphasis on nationalist identity, on 'America First' and 'Taking Back Control,' there is an unmistakable international dimension to contemporary nationalist, populist movements. Yet these movements are also often transnationally linked. We ar…
In the beginning
The question of endings is simultaneously a question of beginnings: wondering if International Relations is at an end inevitably raises the puzzle of when and how ‘it’ began. This article argues that International Relations’ origins bear striking resemblance to a wider movement in post-war American political studies that Ira Katznelson calls the ‘political studies enlightenment.’ This story of the field’s beginnings and ends has become so misunde…
Modernity, identity and security
The attempts by Barry Buzan, Ole Wæver and other members of the 'Copenhagen School' to provide a theoretical foundation for a broader understanding of security and security studies involves a sustained effort to rethink the processes through which issues become 'security' issues. Security is no longer viewed as referring naturally or unproblematically to the military security of the state. Rather, the goal becomes to understand how different 'ref…
What is the National Interest? The Neoconservative Challenge in IR Theory
Despite its controversial influence in American foreign policy and international politics, neoconservatism has received comparatively little attention in IR theory. This article seeks to contribute to a critical engagement between IR theory and neoconservatism by providing an account of the theoretical foundations of neoconservatism and its distinctive approach to the national interest. Examining these foundations reveals a series of areas in whi…
Securing the City
The past decade has witnessed a remarkable expansion and globalisation of the private security sector. These developments mark the emergence of public-private, global-local security networks that play increasingly important roles in global governance. Rather than representing a simple retreat of the state, security privatisation is a part of broad processes in which the role of the state - and the nature and locus of authority - is being transfor…
The Myths of Europe
The current debate over the ‘crisis’ of the EU has often been linked with criticisms of functionalism. From both a liberal‐political and a romantic position, functionalism has been charged with paying inadequate attention to questions of legitimacy and identity ‐ and particularly to the importance of myth ‐ in political community. For the romantic position, the functionalist project could succeed so long it did not enter the realm of national myt…
Identity and the Politics of Security
The theme of identity has become one of the most important and yet contested elements in contemporary debates over the nature of security and the future of security studies. A key source of this contestation lies in the way that largely unacknowledged claims about knowledge and identity are historically related in one of the most powerful and pervasive conceptions of the relationship between politics and security, which I term the `liberal sensib…
America first
This article provides an engagement with American paleoconservatism at the level of its intellectual foundations. Although relatively unknown in the mainstream media, this anti-establishment strain of radical conservatism has provided intellectual ammunition to a wide range of agents and ideological forces challenging the prevailing liberal order nationally and internationally, positions that have at different times resonated with political movem…
Securitization as political theory
Reason and Realpolitik
Immanuel Kant remains a figure of enduring interest to students of international politics both for the content of his writings and for the place which those writings have come to occupy within contemporary debates in International Relations theory. But most of the secondary literature does not have a sufficient appreciation of Kant's wider philosophy and hence misunderstands or distorts his theory of international relations. Once this background …
From critique to reaction
Across the globe, radical conservative political forces and ideas are influencing and even transforming the landscape of international politics. Yet IR is remarkably ill-equipped to understand and engage these new challenges. Unlike political theory or domestic political analyses, conservatism has no distinctive place in the fields’ defining alternatives of realism, liberalism, Marxism, and constructivism. This paper seeks to provide a point of e…
The view from Mars
Challenges to the liberal international order have tended to focus on the politics of populism most often traced to reactions against economic dislocation and mass migration. Parts of this portrait are undoubtedly true, but it also risks being deeply misleading. To fully understand the nature and depth of contemporary far-right movements, we need to examine more closely the distinctive ideological movements that inform and animate them. This arti…
East Asia in transition
Journal Article East Asia in transition: toward a new regional order Get access East Asia in transition: toward a new regional order. Edited by Robert S. Ross. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian studies. 1995. 368pp. Pb.: S$22.50. ISBN 1 56324 561 2. Michael C. Williams Michael C. Williams 1International Institute for Strategic Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, …
The radical Right, realism, and the politics of conservatism in postwar international thought
The rise of the radical Right over the last decade has created a situation that demands engagement with the intellectual origins, achievements, and changing worldviews of radical conservative forces. Yet, conservative thought seems to have no distinct place in the theoretical field that has structured debates within the discipline of IR since 1945. This article seeks to explain some of the reasons for this absence. In the first part, we argue tha…
Horizon Scan
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
Thailand
Regional Dynamics of the Indonesian Revolution
Islam in South-East Asia
Armed Communist Movements in Southeast Asia
A Socialist in the Indies
Rousseau, Realism and Realpolitik
Rethinking the Pacific
Journal Article Rethinking the Pacific Get access Rethinking the Pacific. By Gerald Segal. Oxford: Clarendon. 1990. 400pp. Index. £37.50. ISBN 0 19 827345 2. Michael C. Williams Michael C. Williams 1BBC Far Eastern Service Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 4, October 1990, Page 847, https://doi.org/10.2307/2620435 Published: 01 October 1990
Singapore
Journal Article Singapore: the legacy of Lee Kuan Yew Get access Singapore: the legacy of Lee Kuan Yew. By R. S. Milneand Diane K. Mauzy. Boulder, CO, Oxford: Westview. 1990. 217pp. Index. £22.00. ISBN 0 8133 0407 5. Michael C. Williams Michael C. Williams 1BBC Far Eastern Service Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 3, July 1991, Pages 629–630, https://doi.org/10.2307/26…
Analyzing Strategic Nuclear PolicyCharles L. Glaser Princeton
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New Soviet Policy toward Southeast Asia
Research Article| April 01 1991 New Soviet Policy toward Southeast Asia: Reorientation and Change Michael C. Williams Michael C. Williams Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1991) 31 (4): 364–377. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645390 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Ico…
The Philippines
The Philippines: A Singular and a Plural Place, (second edition) by David Joel Steinberg. Westview Press, Oxford and Boulder Co. 1990, xiv + 224 pp. £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0–8133–0766‐X; Rebellion and Repression in the Philippines, by Richard J. Kessler. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989. xii+227 pp. £22.50 ($30.00). ISBN 0–300–04406–2; Red Revolution: Inside the Philippine Guerrilla Movement, by Gregg R. Jones. Westview Press, Bo…
Rethinking the “Logic” of Deterrence
Reason and Realpolitik
Immanuel Kant remains a figure of enduring interest to students of international politics both for the content of his writings and for the place which those writings have come to occupy within contemporary debates in International Relations theory. But most of the secondary literature does not have a sufficient appreciation of Kant's wider philosophy and hence misunderstands or distorts his theory of international relations. Once this background …
Neo-Realism and the future of strategy
To speak of the ‘future’ of strategy is to reveal a deep tension in the way we commonly think about the subject. On the one hand we are confronted by revolutionary changes in the geo-political landscape. The transformation of Europe, the fragmentation of the Soviet Union, and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, for example, encourage the belief that the Cold War—a term which has been almost synonymous with-strategy for nearly half a century—is no…
Brother number one
Journal Article Brother number one: a political biography of Pol Pot Get access Brother number one: a political biography of Pol Pot. By David P. Chandler. Boulder, CO, Oxford: Westview. 1992. 254pp. Index. £16.95. ISBN 0 8133 0927 1. Michael C. Williams Michael C. Williams 1United Nations, Cambodia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 3, July 1993, Page 592, https://doi.…
Trial after triumph
Journal Article Trial after triumph: East Asia after the Cold War Get access Trial after triumph: East Asia after the Cold War. By W. E. Odom. Indianapolis, IN: Hudson Institute. 1992. 151pp. Index. Pb.: $12.95. ISBN 1 55813 042 x. Michael C. Williams Michael C. Williams 1United Nations, Cambodia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 2, April 1993, Page 401, https://doi.or…
Vietnam at the Crossroads
From War to PeaceJanine Chanteur Translated by Shirley Ann Weisz Boulder
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Vietnam
Journal Article Vietnam: the politics of bureaucratic socialism Get access Vietnam: the politics of bureaucratic socialism. By Gareth Porter. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1993. 227pp. Index. $32.95. ISBN 0 8014 2168 3. Michael C. Williams Michael C. Williams 1United Nations, Zagreb Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 2, April 1994, Page 385, https://doi.org/10.2…
Broadening the Agenda of Security Studies
The field of security studies has been the subject of considerable debate in recent years. Attempts to broaden and deepen the scope of the field beyond its traditional focus on states and military conflict have raised fundamental theoretical and practical issues. Yet, adherents to the prevailing neorealist approach to security studies have often reacted to these challenges in ways that preclude a recognition of the issues raised by alternative un…
Keeping the peace in Cambodia
UN Peacekeeping in Cambodia: UNTAC's Civil Mandate. by Michael W. Doyle. Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner for International Peace Academy, 1995. 117pp. £8.95. Cambodia's New Deal. by William Shawcross. Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1994. 106pp. $9.95. The United Nations and Cambodia 1991–1995. New York: United Nations Department of Public Information, 1995. 352pp. £22.00
East Asia in transition
Journal Article East Asia in transition: toward a new regional order Get access East Asia in transition: toward a new regional order. Edited by Robert S. Ross. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian studies. 1995. 368pp. Pb.: S$22.50. ISBN 1 56324 561 2. Michael C. Williams Michael C. Williams 1International Institute for Strategic Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, …
New dimensions of peacekeeping
Journal Article New dimensions of peacekeeping Get access New dimensions of peacekeeping. Edited by Daniel Warner. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Martinus Nijhoff. 1995. Index. 210pp. £40.00. ISBN 0 7923 3301 2. Michael C. Williams Michael C. Williams 1International Institute for Strategic Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, April 1996, Page 368, https://doi.or…
Beyond Yugoslavia
Journal Article Beyond Yugoslavia: politics, economics, and culture in a shattered community Get access Beyond Yugoslavia: politics, economics, and culture in a shattered community. Edited by Sabrina Petra Rametand Ljubisa S. Adamovich. Boulder, CO, Oxford: Westview. 1995. 502pp. Index. £37.00. ISBN 0 8133 7953 9. Michael C. Williams Michael C. Williams 1International Institute for Strategic Studies, London Search for other works by this author o…
Hobbes and international relations
Hobbes has long been a central figure in the theory of international relations. He has also been a badly misunderstood one. While often invoked to support contemporary theories of international politics, Hobbes's thinking actually challenges rational-choice theories, the structural realism of Kenneth Waltz, and the “rationalist” approach of the English school. Indeed, the skeptical foundations of his political vision place him closer to contempor…
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