Risk in International Relations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4445346
AutoresWilliam Clapton (0000-0001-5667-3413, UNSW Sydney, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen25
Número3
Páginas280-295
Fecha de publicación2011-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0047117811415480
OpenAlexW2082024302
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21

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