Jennifer Sterling-Folker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1055280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Sterling-Folker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Sterling-Folker |
| SIGNATURE | STERLING-FOLKER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 151 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Forum: Thinking Theoretically in Unsettled Times: Covid-19 and Beyond
This collection of essays seeks to theorize the politics of the COVID-19 pandemic in international relations (IR). The contributions are driven by questions such as: How can theorizing help us understand these unsettled times? What kind of crisis is this? What shapes its politics? What remains the same and what has been unsettled or unsettling? In addressing such questions, each of the participants considers what we may already know about the pan…
Forum: Rethinking Neoclassical Realism at Theory's End
This forum presents a snapshot of the current state of neoclassical realist theorizing. Its contributors are self-identified neoclassical realists who delineate their version of neoclassical realism (NCR), its scope, object of analysis, and theoretical contribution. From the standpoint of NCR, they contribute to and reflect on the “end of IR theory” debate. NCR has come under criticism for its supposed lack of theoretical structure and alleged di…
Human Beings in International Relations
Since the 1980s, the discipline of International Relations has seen a series of disputes over its foundations. However, there has been one core concept that, although addressed in various guises, had never been explicitly and systematically engaged with in these debates: the human. This volume is the first to address comprehensively the topic of the human in world politics. It comprises cutting-edge accounts by leading scholars of how the human i…
The Global Transformation
All Hail to the Chief: Liberal IR Theory in the New World Order
Analytical pluralism in IR theory is a welcome development, yet it may also play a role in reifying our contemporary liberal world order. While there is clearly greater analytical diversity in the IR discipline today than in the latter half of the twentieth century, it is a diversity that is contained within the boundaries of acceptable liberal discourse. As a result, it does not constitute a challenge to dominant disciplinary ways of knowing and…
A disagreeable dinner guest? Waltz and the study of global governance
Making Sense of International Relations Theory
Making Sense of International Relations Theory
Neoclassical realism and identity: Peril despite profit across the Taiwan Strait
The introductory chapter of this volume by Jeffrey Taliaferro, Steven Lobell, and Norrin Ripsman suggests that neoclassical realism can add explanatory power to structural realism by considering the effect of the domestic political environment on policy. It also improves on liberal theories by asserting the primacy of international constraints. In this chapter, I examine whether a neoclassical realist approach can explain a liberal puzzle, namely…
The Emperor Wore Cowboy Boots
Why does it matter if the United States is an empire in any objectively definable sense? All this academic and political pundit hand-wringing, over whether the United States should technically be labeled an empire or not, seems oddly out of step with the sorts of egregious foreign policy behaviors the United States engages in on a daily basis. Yet the words we use to describe something do matter a great deal to what we see and how we act in the w…
Lamarckian with a vengeance: Human nature and American international relations theory
Discourses of Power: Traversing the Realist-Postmodern Divide
This article is about the analytical divide that separates realism and postmodernism in International Relations. Written by a realist (Sterling-Folker), and a postmodernist (Shinko), it seeks to traverse the divide between them through a discussion of how the perspective of each represents and makes sense of power. It does so within the context of an empirical case study: the China-Taiwan relationship. Comparing and contrasting how each perspecti…
Realist-Constructivism and Morality
Journal Article Realist-Constructivism and Morality Get access Jennifer Sterling-Folker Jennifer Sterling-Folker Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2004, Pages 341–343, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1521-9488.2004.419_3.x Published: 04 October 2004
Realism and the Constructivist Challenge: Rejecting, Reconstructing, or Rereading
Journal Article Realism and the Constructivist Challenge: Rejecting, Reconstructing, or Rereading Get access Jennifer Sterling-Folker Jennifer Sterling-Folker University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Pages 73–97, https://doi.org/10.1111/1521-9488.t01-1-00253 Published: 17 December 2002
Symposium on Global Inequality and Teaching: Taking Up the Challenge of Craig N. Murphy's Presidential Address
Symposium on Global Inequality and Teaching: Taking Up the Challenge of Craig N. Murphy’s Presidential Address Jennifer Sterling‐Folker, Jennifer Sterling‐Folker University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James M. Scott, James M. Scott University of Nebraska at Kearney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar B. Welling Hall, B. Welling Hall Earlham College Se…
Games Advisors Play: Foreign Policy in the Nixon and Carter Administrations . Jean A. Garrison
Competing Paradigms or Birds of a Feather? Constructivism and Neoliberal Institutionalism Compared
This article compares constructivism and neoliberal institutionalism and argues that in their reification as paradigms in competition, the IO theoretical community is making far too much of what are relatively small differences between them in the metatheoretical scheme of things. These claims are substantiated by comparing functionalism, neo-functionalism, neoliberal institutionalism, and constructivism. Such an examination reveals that they all…
Realist Environment, Liberal Process, and Domestic-Level Variables
This article examines the deductive basis upon which domestic-level theorizing may be combined with liberal and realist systemic-level theory in order to account for international outcomes. It is particularly concerned with whether existing systemic theory can incorporate domestic-level variables in a causally consistent rather than ad hoc manner. In addressing such a concern, it confronts the widely held assumption in the IR theory literature th…
Activities and Appointments
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Realist Environment, Liberal Process, and Domestic-Level Variables
This article examines the deductive basis upon which domestic-level theorizing may be combined with liberal and realist systemic-level theory in order to account for international outcomes. It is particularly concerned with whether existing systemic theory can incorporate domestic-level variables in a causally consistent rather than ad hoc manner. In addressing such a concern, it confronts the widely held assumption in the IR theory literature th…
Competing Paradigms or Birds of a Feather? Constructivism and Neoliberal Institutionalism Compared
This article compares constructivism and neoliberal institutionalism and argues that in their reification as paradigms in competition, the IO theoretical community is making far too much of what are relatively small differences between them in the metatheoretical scheme of things. These claims are substantiated by comparing functionalism, neo-functionalism, neoliberal institutionalism, and constructivism. Such an examination reveals that they all…
Realism and the Constructivist Challenge: Rejecting, Reconstructing, or Rereading
Journal Article Realism and the Constructivist Challenge: Rejecting, Reconstructing, or Rereading Get access Jennifer Sterling-Folker Jennifer Sterling-Folker University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Pages 73–97, https://doi.org/10.1111/1521-9488.t01-1-00253 Published: 17 December 2002
Discourses of Power: Traversing the Realist-Postmodern Divide
This article is about the analytical divide that separates realism and postmodernism in International Relations. Written by a realist (Sterling-Folker), and a postmodernist (Shinko), it seeks to traverse the divide between them through a discussion of how the perspective of each represents and makes sense of power. It does so within the context of an empirical case study: the China-Taiwan relationship. Comparing and contrasting how each perspecti…
Forum: Rethinking Neoclassical Realism at Theory's End
This forum presents a snapshot of the current state of neoclassical realist theorizing. Its contributors are self-identified neoclassical realists who delineate their version of neoclassical realism (NCR), its scope, object of analysis, and theoretical contribution. From the standpoint of NCR, they contribute to and reflect on the “end of IR theory” debate. NCR has come under criticism for its supposed lack of theoretical structure and alleged di…
Lamarckian with a vengeance: Human nature and American international relations theory
All Hail to the Chief: Liberal IR Theory in the New World Order
Analytical pluralism in IR theory is a welcome development, yet it may also play a role in reifying our contemporary liberal world order. While there is clearly greater analytical diversity in the IR discipline today than in the latter half of the twentieth century, it is a diversity that is contained within the boundaries of acceptable liberal discourse. As a result, it does not constitute a challenge to dominant disciplinary ways of knowing and…
Realist-Constructivism and Morality
Journal Article Realist-Constructivism and Morality Get access Jennifer Sterling-Folker Jennifer Sterling-Folker Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2004, Pages 341–343, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1521-9488.2004.419_3.x Published: 04 October 2004
Forum: Thinking Theoretically in Unsettled Times: Covid-19 and Beyond
This collection of essays seeks to theorize the politics of the COVID-19 pandemic in international relations (IR). The contributions are driven by questions such as: How can theorizing help us understand these unsettled times? What kind of crisis is this? What shapes its politics? What remains the same and what has been unsettled or unsettling? In addressing such questions, each of the participants considers what we may already know about the pan…
Symposium on Global Inequality and Teaching: Taking Up the Challenge of Craig N. Murphy's Presidential Address
Symposium on Global Inequality and Teaching: Taking Up the Challenge of Craig N. Murphy’s Presidential Address Jennifer Sterling‐Folker, Jennifer Sterling‐Folker University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James M. Scott, James M. Scott University of Nebraska at Kearney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar B. Welling Hall, B. Welling Hall Earlham College Se…
The Emperor Wore Cowboy Boots
Why does it matter if the United States is an empire in any objectively definable sense? All this academic and political pundit hand-wringing, over whether the United States should technically be labeled an empire or not, seems oddly out of step with the sorts of egregious foreign policy behaviors the United States engages in on a daily basis. Yet the words we use to describe something do matter a great deal to what we see and how we act in the w…
Activities and Appointments
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Realist Environment, Liberal Process, and Domestic-Level Variables
This article examines the deductive basis upon which domestic-level theorizing may be combined with liberal and realist systemic-level theory in order to account for international outcomes. It is particularly concerned with whether existing systemic theory can incorporate domestic-level variables in a causally consistent rather than ad hoc manner. In addressing such a concern, it confronts the widely held assumption in the IR theory literature th…
Games Advisors Play: Foreign Policy in the Nixon and Carter Administrations . Jean A. Garrison
Competing Paradigms or Birds of a Feather? Constructivism and Neoliberal Institutionalism Compared
This article compares constructivism and neoliberal institutionalism and argues that in their reification as paradigms in competition, the IO theoretical community is making far too much of what are relatively small differences between them in the metatheoretical scheme of things. These claims are substantiated by comparing functionalism, neo-functionalism, neoliberal institutionalism, and constructivism. Such an examination reveals that they all…
Symposium on Global Inequality and Teaching: Taking Up the Challenge of Craig N. Murphy's Presidential Address
Symposium on Global Inequality and Teaching: Taking Up the Challenge of Craig N. Murphy’s Presidential Address Jennifer Sterling‐Folker, Jennifer Sterling‐Folker University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James M. Scott, James M. Scott University of Nebraska at Kearney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar B. Welling Hall, B. Welling Hall Earlham College Se…
Realism and the Constructivist Challenge: Rejecting, Reconstructing, or Rereading
Journal Article Realism and the Constructivist Challenge: Rejecting, Reconstructing, or Rereading Get access Jennifer Sterling-Folker Jennifer Sterling-Folker University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Pages 73–97, https://doi.org/10.1111/1521-9488.t01-1-00253 Published: 17 December 2002
Realist-Constructivism and Morality
Journal Article Realist-Constructivism and Morality Get access Jennifer Sterling-Folker Jennifer Sterling-Folker Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2004, Pages 341–343, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1521-9488.2004.419_3.x Published: 04 October 2004
Discourses of Power: Traversing the Realist-Postmodern Divide
This article is about the analytical divide that separates realism and postmodernism in International Relations. Written by a realist (Sterling-Folker), and a postmodernist (Shinko), it seeks to traverse the divide between them through a discussion of how the perspective of each represents and makes sense of power. It does so within the context of an empirical case study: the China-Taiwan relationship. Comparing and contrasting how each perspecti…
Lamarckian with a vengeance: Human nature and American international relations theory
The Emperor Wore Cowboy Boots
Why does it matter if the United States is an empire in any objectively definable sense? All this academic and political pundit hand-wringing, over whether the United States should technically be labeled an empire or not, seems oddly out of step with the sorts of egregious foreign policy behaviors the United States engages in on a daily basis. Yet the words we use to describe something do matter a great deal to what we see and how we act in the w…
Neoclassical realism and identity: Peril despite profit across the Taiwan Strait
The introductory chapter of this volume by Jeffrey Taliaferro, Steven Lobell, and Norrin Ripsman suggests that neoclassical realism can add explanatory power to structural realism by considering the effect of the domestic political environment on policy. It also improves on liberal theories by asserting the primacy of international constraints. In this chapter, I examine whether a neoclassical realist approach can explain a liberal puzzle, namely…
Making Sense of International Relations Theory
Making Sense of International Relations Theory
All Hail to the Chief: Liberal IR Theory in the New World Order
Analytical pluralism in IR theory is a welcome development, yet it may also play a role in reifying our contemporary liberal world order. While there is clearly greater analytical diversity in the IR discipline today than in the latter half of the twentieth century, it is a diversity that is contained within the boundaries of acceptable liberal discourse. As a result, it does not constitute a challenge to dominant disciplinary ways of knowing and…
A disagreeable dinner guest? Waltz and the study of global governance
Human Beings in International Relations
Since the 1980s, the discipline of International Relations has seen a series of disputes over its foundations. However, there has been one core concept that, although addressed in various guises, had never been explicitly and systematically engaged with in these debates: the human. This volume is the first to address comprehensively the topic of the human in world politics. It comprises cutting-edge accounts by leading scholars of how the human i…
The Global Transformation
Forum: Rethinking Neoclassical Realism at Theory's End
This forum presents a snapshot of the current state of neoclassical realist theorizing. Its contributors are self-identified neoclassical realists who delineate their version of neoclassical realism (NCR), its scope, object of analysis, and theoretical contribution. From the standpoint of NCR, they contribute to and reflect on the “end of IR theory” debate. NCR has come under criticism for its supposed lack of theoretical structure and alleged di…
Forum: Thinking Theoretically in Unsettled Times: Covid-19 and Beyond
This collection of essays seeks to theorize the politics of the COVID-19 pandemic in international relations (IR). The contributions are driven by questions such as: How can theorizing help us understand these unsettled times? What kind of crisis is this? What shapes its politics? What remains the same and what has been unsettled or unsettling? In addressing such questions, each of the participants considers what we may already know about the pan…
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