Laust Schouenborg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1015099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laust Schouenborg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laust |
| FAMILY NAME | Schouenborg |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOUENBORG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2660-3403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The corruption of international society? General and complete disarmament from the perspective of the practitioners
This article investigates whether practitioners argued that general and complete disarmament (GCD) would corrupt international society during the two major debates of this issue in the 20th century, namely in 1927–1928 and 1959. The purpose and value of this analysis is to learn more about the workings of international society. Following Bull and other English School scholars, GCD probably represents the most radical challenge to the traditional …
The English School and Institutions
The argument can be made, and has in fact been made, that the English School is primarily concerned with the study of institutions. The institutions of international society are social in a fundamental sense. That is, they are something above and beyond what one usually associates with an international institution. There are three dominant perspectives on what the primary institutions of international society are: functional, historical/descripti…
A quantitative approach to studying hierarchies of primary institutions in international society
In this article, we aim to contribute to two contemporary debates within the English School. The debate about how to observe primary institutions and the debate concerning hierarchy between primary institutions. Specifically, we analyse references to primary institutions in United Nations General Assembly disarmament resolutions in the decade 1989–1998 and their distribution using descriptive statistics. In this way, the article offers a novel ap…
Global International Society
This ambitious book provides a new framework for analysing global international society (GIS). In doing so, it also links the English School's approach more closely to classical sociology, constructivism, liberal institutionalism, realism and postcolonialism. It retells the expansion of international society story to explain why the differences among states are as important as their similarities in understanding the structure and dynamics of cont…
Global International Society
International Institutions in World History
This book presents a case for a basic reorientation of International Relations away from the state and towards the study of social institutions in the sense of patterned practices, ideas and norms/rules. IR has always suffered from a parochial occupation with the state and the Western system of state. Its main theories revolve around these phenomena, and have resulted in the reification of the state: it has been turned into an essential actor, wi…
Undead Pedagogy
A global zombie outbreak constitutes a hypothetical event in world politics that could likely lead to the collapse of civilization. At the same time, the very threat of such a global catastrophe offers a unique experimental terrain on which to investigate various possible changes and developments in human interaction in social, economic, and political processes. In this article, we discuss our experience with using a global zombie outbreak-based …
The English School and Institutions
In this chapter, I intend to do three things. First, I will discuss in which sense English scholars can be said to be “institutionalists.” This will involve an elaboration of the social understanding of institutions found in the English School (ES) and how this differs from other approaches to institutions in IR and particularly the related concepts of international organizations and international regimes. Second, I survey different perspectives …
The Scandinavian International Society by Laust Schouenborg
The rise of the welfare state in international society
In this article I seek to develop a case for viewing the welfare state as a primary institution in international society. This is with particular reference to Norden (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), where in the course of the 1930s, and particularly in the post-1945 era, the welfare state was elevated to a core principle of legitimacy, largely defining the idea of nationhood for these countries. Furthermore, I will attempt to show …
Exploring Westphalia's Blind Spots
The point of departure for this article is the realisation that the regional dimensions of international society have not been conceptualised adequately by International Relations scholars. One consequence of this, I argue, is that what could have been understood as regionally led change has been framed as revolutionary exceptions or imperialist drives for power aggregation. I attempt to develop this point by demonstrating how, for example, the E…
Interrogating Democracy in World Politics
It is often assumed that democracy is both desirable and possible in global politics. Interrogating Democracy in World Politics provides an important counter-argument to this assumption by questioning the history, meaning and concepts of democracy in contemporary and global politics. Combining viewpoints from the fields of relations, political theory and history, the book includes: Critical examinations of the concept of democracy as a political …
A New Institutionalism? The English School as International Sociological Theory
In this article I engage with the theoretical opening provided by Barry Buzan's From International to World Society? I present an argument for five functional categories, which should be able to encompass all the institutions identified by English School scholars throughout history. Their introduction should point the way towards a sounder analytical framework for the study of what Buzan believes should be the new subject of the discipline of Int…
Norden, Europa eller USA? De udenrigspolitiske overvejelser i forbindelse med købet af de danske F-16-fly
In the coming decade Denmark will initiate the replacement of its current fleet of F-16 fighters. In the spring of 2009 most indicators suggest that politicians will have a choice between one of three options: the American F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) and F-18 Super Hornet, produced by Lockheed Martin and Boing respectively, and the Swedish Saab JAS 39 Gripen. Denmark is thus on the verge of taking the first step in a process that is broadly s…
A New Institutionalism? The English School as International Sociological Theory
In this article I engage with the theoretical opening provided by Barry Buzan's From International to World Society? I present an argument for five functional categories, which should be able to encompass all the institutions identified by English School scholars throughout history. Their introduction should point the way towards a sounder analytical framework for the study of what Buzan believes should be the new subject of the discipline of Int…
Undead Pedagogy
A global zombie outbreak constitutes a hypothetical event in world politics that could likely lead to the collapse of civilization. At the same time, the very threat of such a global catastrophe offers a unique experimental terrain on which to investigate various possible changes and developments in human interaction in social, economic, and political processes. In this article, we discuss our experience with using a global zombie outbreak-based …
Exploring Westphalia's Blind Spots
The point of departure for this article is the realisation that the regional dimensions of international society have not been conceptualised adequately by International Relations scholars. One consequence of this, I argue, is that what could have been understood as regionally led change has been framed as revolutionary exceptions or imperialist drives for power aggregation. I attempt to develop this point by demonstrating how, for example, the E…
A quantitative approach to studying hierarchies of primary institutions in international society
In this article, we aim to contribute to two contemporary debates within the English School. The debate about how to observe primary institutions and the debate concerning hierarchy between primary institutions. Specifically, we analyse references to primary institutions in United Nations General Assembly disarmament resolutions in the decade 1989–1998 and their distribution using descriptive statistics. In this way, the article offers a novel ap…
International Institutions in World History
This book presents a case for a basic reorientation of International Relations away from the state and towards the study of social institutions in the sense of patterned practices, ideas and norms/rules. IR has always suffered from a parochial occupation with the state and the Western system of state. Its main theories revolve around these phenomena, and have resulted in the reification of the state: it has been turned into an essential actor, wi…
Norden, Europa eller USA? De udenrigspolitiske overvejelser i forbindelse med købet af de danske F-16-fly
In the coming decade Denmark will initiate the replacement of its current fleet of F-16 fighters. In the spring of 2009 most indicators suggest that politicians will have a choice between one of three options: the American F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) and F-18 Super Hornet, produced by Lockheed Martin and Boing respectively, and the Swedish Saab JAS 39 Gripen. Denmark is thus on the verge of taking the first step in a process that is broadly s…
Norden, Europa eller USA? De udenrigspolitiske overvejelser i forbindelse med købet af de danske F-16-fly
In the coming decade Denmark will initiate the replacement of its current fleet of F-16 fighters. In the spring of 2009 most indicators suggest that politicians will have a choice between one of three options: the American F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) and F-18 Super Hornet, produced by Lockheed Martin and Boing respectively, and the Swedish Saab JAS 39 Gripen. Denmark is thus on the verge of taking the first step in a process that is broadly s…
Interrogating Democracy in World Politics
It is often assumed that democracy is both desirable and possible in global politics. Interrogating Democracy in World Politics provides an important counter-argument to this assumption by questioning the history, meaning and concepts of democracy in contemporary and global politics. Combining viewpoints from the fields of relations, political theory and history, the book includes: Critical examinations of the concept of democracy as a political …
A New Institutionalism? The English School as International Sociological Theory
In this article I engage with the theoretical opening provided by Barry Buzan's From International to World Society? I present an argument for five functional categories, which should be able to encompass all the institutions identified by English School scholars throughout history. Their introduction should point the way towards a sounder analytical framework for the study of what Buzan believes should be the new subject of the discipline of Int…
The rise of the welfare state in international society
In this article I seek to develop a case for viewing the welfare state as a primary institution in international society. This is with particular reference to Norden (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), where in the course of the 1930s, and particularly in the post-1945 era, the welfare state was elevated to a core principle of legitimacy, largely defining the idea of nationhood for these countries. Furthermore, I will attempt to show …
Exploring Westphalia's Blind Spots
The point of departure for this article is the realisation that the regional dimensions of international society have not been conceptualised adequately by International Relations scholars. One consequence of this, I argue, is that what could have been understood as regionally led change has been framed as revolutionary exceptions or imperialist drives for power aggregation. I attempt to develop this point by demonstrating how, for example, the E…
The English School and Institutions
In this chapter, I intend to do three things. First, I will discuss in which sense English scholars can be said to be “institutionalists.” This will involve an elaboration of the social understanding of institutions found in the English School (ES) and how this differs from other approaches to institutions in IR and particularly the related concepts of international organizations and international regimes. Second, I survey different perspectives …
The Scandinavian International Society by Laust Schouenborg
Undead Pedagogy
A global zombie outbreak constitutes a hypothetical event in world politics that could likely lead to the collapse of civilization. At the same time, the very threat of such a global catastrophe offers a unique experimental terrain on which to investigate various possible changes and developments in human interaction in social, economic, and political processes. In this article, we discuss our experience with using a global zombie outbreak-based …
International Institutions in World History
This book presents a case for a basic reorientation of International Relations away from the state and towards the study of social institutions in the sense of patterned practices, ideas and norms/rules. IR has always suffered from a parochial occupation with the state and the Western system of state. Its main theories revolve around these phenomena, and have resulted in the reification of the state: it has been turned into an essential actor, wi…
Global International Society
This ambitious book provides a new framework for analysing global international society (GIS). In doing so, it also links the English School's approach more closely to classical sociology, constructivism, liberal institutionalism, realism and postcolonialism. It retells the expansion of international society story to explain why the differences among states are as important as their similarities in understanding the structure and dynamics of cont…
Global International Society
The English School and Institutions
The argument can be made, and has in fact been made, that the English School is primarily concerned with the study of institutions. The institutions of international society are social in a fundamental sense. That is, they are something above and beyond what one usually associates with an international institution. There are three dominant perspectives on what the primary institutions of international society are: functional, historical/descripti…
A quantitative approach to studying hierarchies of primary institutions in international society
In this article, we aim to contribute to two contemporary debates within the English School. The debate about how to observe primary institutions and the debate concerning hierarchy between primary institutions. Specifically, we analyse references to primary institutions in United Nations General Assembly disarmament resolutions in the decade 1989–1998 and their distribution using descriptive statistics. In this way, the article offers a novel ap…
The corruption of international society? General and complete disarmament from the perspective of the practitioners
This article investigates whether practitioners argued that general and complete disarmament (GCD) would corrupt international society during the two major debates of this issue in the 20th century, namely in 1927–1928 and 1959. The purpose and value of this analysis is to learn more about the workings of international society. Following Bull and other English School scholars, GCD probably represents the most radical challenge to the traditional …
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Social science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)