Filippo Costa Buranelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1211048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Filippo Costa Buranelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Filippo Costa |
| FAMILY NAME | Buranelli |
| SIGNATURE | BURANELLI F C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2447-7618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Consultative Meetings of Heads of State of Central Asia: Local norms, institutions and the fundamentals of regional order
Since 2018, the presidents of the five central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have gathered annually to participate in the Consultative Meetings of Heads of States of the region. This institutional development has been hailed as a new step towards integration and cooperation in central Asia. Yet several scholars and commentators describe this format as mostly a ‘talking shop’ that pays lip servi…
Central Asian regionalism in the 1990s: Order, familiarization, and spotlighting
Funding: The Royal Society of Edinburgh (2905)
The reactionary internationale: The Rise of the New Right and the Reconstruction of International Society
New Right actors are vocally seeking to change key international relations practices and institutions. We enquire how their philosophy of the international, which we call Reactionary Internationalism, is being socialised by a diverse group of international actors. Engaging with English School conceptualisations of international society and deploying discursive analysis of diplomatic positions, we examine the diplomacy of New Right actors and symp…
Adam Watson and international relations: A Contemporary Reassessment—introduction
This is the introduction to the special issue 'Adam Watson and International Relations: A Contemporary Reassessment'. In this short piece, the guest editors outline the genesis, development, and purpose of the project, offer a rationale for the special issue, summarise the papers in it, and reflect on the importance of Adam Watson within the English School and International Relations canons
Of nomads and khanates: Heteronomy and interpolity order in 19th-century Central Asia
Scholars of International Relations (IR) and Global Historical Sociology alike have recently become more and more interested in Eurasian order(s). Yet, most recent works on Eurasian historical international relations approach the subject from a long durée perspective, mostly focusing on “big polities” from a “high altitude.” Central Asia, or “Turkestan,” and its constitutive polities such as the khanates of Bukhara, Khiva, and Khoqand and the vas…
Beyond the pendulum: Situating Adam Watson in International Relations and the English School
Among the founding figures of the English School of International Relations (ES) and the British Committee (BC), Adam Watson is perhaps the least studied and researched. How, for example, did his past as diplomat informed his Weltanschauung and his understanding of combining theory and practice? How did his academic relationship and friendship with other members of the BC and colleagues shaped his outlook on international politics? What was his p…
English School Special Section
This is a series of solicited articles requested by the editors of Vol. 51, emerging from a roundtable discussion held at the 2022 International Studies Association Convention. Each short contribution seeks to demonstrate the newest research of the English School of International Relations. These contributions tackle key questions including: the decline of liberal hegemony, the rise of China, the divide between soldaristic and pluralistic ethics,…
Contestation of the liberal order: A populist script of regional cooperation
That the liberal international order (LIO) and the global governance regime associated with it are undergoing a phase of contestation at best, and dismantling at worst, is a well-acknowledged trope in the current literature on International Relations (IR). The experiences and the legacies of Brexit and the Trump presidency have served as a cogent support for the argument that ‘populists’ and ‘populist politicians’ are behind the erosion of multil…
The International Society tradition: From Hugo Grotius to Hedley Bull’ and ‘International Society: the English School’
I recently rewatched Paolo Sorrentino's film The great beauty, when, at a crossroads, the protagonist is told that ‘roots are important’. From that moment, the main character sees the world more clearly, and reconnects with his inner talents, desires and self. Similarly, the role of roots is at the centre of Cornelia Navari's book, The International Society tradition. In it, Navari situates the concept of International Society (or more precisely …
Central Asian Regionalism or Central Asian Order? Some Reflections
This article reflects on how the concept of regionalism has been used to explain and interpret Central Asian politics since independence. It argues that regionalism, often a norm-laden analytical category based on Eurocentric assumptions, tends to paint the region as “failed” and regional states as incapable of institutionalizing multilateral relations. In its place, the article suggests the concept of order, which is more neutral and—through its…
Theorizing the Nature of Power in Central Asia. Introduction to the Special Issue
The concept of power is key in social and political theory: it explains the ways in which processes and realities occur and makes it possible to theorize about the nature of governance, action, res
The Pervasive Nature of Power in Central Asia
In International Relations, “Central Asia” and “power” are often linked to either Great Power politics or authoritarianism. Yet, as “power” is a multifaceted component of social life, this paper suggests a comprehensive framework to analyze its different understandings and operations in the region. By adopting the typology of Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall, the paper has three aims. First, to review the recent literature on power and Central …
Accommodating Revisionism through Balancing Regionalism: The Case of Central Asia
The Central Asian states face the challenge of containing Russia’s revisionism in the post-Soviet space while maintaining cooperative relations with it and integrating diplomatically and economically into the international system. This essay argues that the Central Asian states are managing this revisionism through a strategy we refer to as ‘balancing regionalism’: cooperating among themselves and with multiple actors to insulate themselves from …
Is the English School still an underexploited resource? And whither the English School? An introduction 1
Peer reviewed
Authoritarianism as an Institution? The Case of Central Asia
While much of the English School has focused on liberal aspects of solidarism, forms of “illiberal solidarism” in contemporary international society remain underexplored. Drawing on archival material and elite interviews conducted in Central Asia in the period 2013–2019, this paper advances the claim that the Central Asian elites have developed the institution of authoritarianism in their region through the mechanisms of mimicry/emulation and pra…
When states and individuals meet: The UN Ombudsperson as a 'contact point' between international and world society
Interaction between individuals and states is considered a distinctive character of domestic politics, while international politics is the 'realm of states'. However, it is becoming more common to encounter loci where both states and individuals interact at the international level, such as in the cases of the Special Tribunals for Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Former Yugoslavia as well as the International Criminal Court (ICC). Within the…
Russia and the CIS in 2018
Russia’s “Asian pivot” remains focused on China, despite energetic Russian diplomacy in 2018 vis-à-vis Japan and India. The benefits of the enlargement of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to include Pakistan and India remained unclear, and the overlapping memberships of regional organizations highlighted the challenges for security and economic cooperation in Central Asia
One Belt, One Road and Central Asia: Challenges and Opportunities
Russia and the CIS in 2017
Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia’s “eastward pivot” has intensified, mainly observable as strengthened relations with China, which appear to be evolving into a quasi-alliance. This places in question Russian attempts at diversification in the Asia-Pacific, and its position in Central Asia, where China’s Belt and Road Initiative challenges Russian influence
Spheres of Influence as Negotiated Hegemony - The Case of Central Asia
In the nineteenth century, as well as during the Cold War, spheres of influence were created and legitimized to pursue and sustain order in world politics, as well as to avoid direct confrontation between the great powers. Nowadays, they are considered as belonging to a past characterized by confrontation, power politics, balance of power and coercion. Yet, spheres of influence still constitute part of the present-day political vocabulary, and se…
World society as a shared ethnos and the limits of world society in Central Asia
Do you know what I mean?’ ‘Not exactly’: English School, global international society and the polysemy of institutions
The English School has recently focussed on sub-global political developments, inaugurating a new research agenda on how regional international societies are formed and evolve. However, while regional international societies can adopt more or less institutions than those at the global level, they may take some institutions present at the global level to mean something different. In this paper, it is tentatively argued that the development of regi…
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Russia, Central Asia and the Mediated Expansion of International Society
Within the English School of International Relations the expansion of European International Society has always been regarded as an essentially European, western enterprise. However, the role that the Russian Empire played in expanding the institutions of international society into Central Asia remains quite neglected. By analysing primary sources and contemporary discourses about Russia’s civilisational status in the 19th century, this paper dis…
May We Have a Say? Central Asian States in the Un General Assembly
Since the demise of the USSR in 1991, the five Central Asian republics have joined a number of international organisations, most notably the UN. However, while their membership in this organisation is often taken for granted and used by scholarship on Central Asia as an example of their “race to membership”, few studies if none have addressed not only how these state relate themselves to the organisation, but also how they behave in it and what n…
Authoritarianism as an Institution? The Case of Central Asia
While much of the English School has focused on liberal aspects of solidarism, forms of “illiberal solidarism” in contemporary international society remain underexplored. Drawing on archival material and elite interviews conducted in Central Asia in the period 2013–2019, this paper advances the claim that the Central Asian elites have developed the institution of authoritarianism in their region through the mechanisms of mimicry/emulation and pra…
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Russia, Central Asia and the Mediated Expansion of International Society
Within the English School of International Relations the expansion of European International Society has always been regarded as an essentially European, western enterprise. However, the role that the Russian Empire played in expanding the institutions of international society into Central Asia remains quite neglected. By analysing primary sources and contemporary discourses about Russia’s civilisational status in the 19th century, this paper dis…
Central Asian Regionalism or Central Asian Order? Some Reflections
This article reflects on how the concept of regionalism has been used to explain and interpret Central Asian politics since independence. It argues that regionalism, often a norm-laden analytical category based on Eurocentric assumptions, tends to paint the region as “failed” and regional states as incapable of institutionalizing multilateral relations. In its place, the article suggests the concept of order, which is more neutral and—through its…
May We Have a Say? Central Asian States in the Un General Assembly
Since the demise of the USSR in 1991, the five Central Asian republics have joined a number of international organisations, most notably the UN. However, while their membership in this organisation is often taken for granted and used by scholarship on Central Asia as an example of their “race to membership”, few studies if none have addressed not only how these state relate themselves to the organisation, but also how they behave in it and what n…
Do you know what I mean?’ ‘Not exactly’: English School, global international society and the polysemy of institutions
The English School has recently focussed on sub-global political developments, inaugurating a new research agenda on how regional international societies are formed and evolve. However, while regional international societies can adopt more or less institutions than those at the global level, they may take some institutions present at the global level to mean something different. In this paper, it is tentatively argued that the development of regi…
Spheres of Influence as Negotiated Hegemony - The Case of Central Asia
In the nineteenth century, as well as during the Cold War, spheres of influence were created and legitimized to pursue and sustain order in world politics, as well as to avoid direct confrontation between the great powers. Nowadays, they are considered as belonging to a past characterized by confrontation, power politics, balance of power and coercion. Yet, spheres of influence still constitute part of the present-day political vocabulary, and se…
Accommodating Revisionism through Balancing Regionalism: The Case of Central Asia
The Central Asian states face the challenge of containing Russia’s revisionism in the post-Soviet space while maintaining cooperative relations with it and integrating diplomatically and economically into the international system. This essay argues that the Central Asian states are managing this revisionism through a strategy we refer to as ‘balancing regionalism’: cooperating among themselves and with multiple actors to insulate themselves from …
The reactionary internationale: The Rise of the New Right and the Reconstruction of International Society
New Right actors are vocally seeking to change key international relations practices and institutions. We enquire how their philosophy of the international, which we call Reactionary Internationalism, is being socialised by a diverse group of international actors. Engaging with English School conceptualisations of international society and deploying discursive analysis of diplomatic positions, we examine the diplomacy of New Right actors and symp…
The Pervasive Nature of Power in Central Asia
In International Relations, “Central Asia” and “power” are often linked to either Great Power politics or authoritarianism. Yet, as “power” is a multifaceted component of social life, this paper suggests a comprehensive framework to analyze its different understandings and operations in the region. By adopting the typology of Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall, the paper has three aims. First, to review the recent literature on power and Central …
English School Special Section
This is a series of solicited articles requested by the editors of Vol. 51, emerging from a roundtable discussion held at the 2022 International Studies Association Convention. Each short contribution seeks to demonstrate the newest research of the English School of International Relations. These contributions tackle key questions including: the decline of liberal hegemony, the rise of China, the divide between soldaristic and pluralistic ethics,…
World society as a shared ethnos and the limits of world society in Central Asia
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Russia, Central Asia and the Mediated Expansion of International Society
Within the English School of International Relations the expansion of European International Society has always been regarded as an essentially European, western enterprise. However, the role that the Russian Empire played in expanding the institutions of international society into Central Asia remains quite neglected. By analysing primary sources and contemporary discourses about Russia’s civilisational status in the 19th century, this paper dis…
May We Have a Say? Central Asian States in the Un General Assembly
Since the demise of the USSR in 1991, the five Central Asian republics have joined a number of international organisations, most notably the UN. However, while their membership in this organisation is often taken for granted and used by scholarship on Central Asia as an example of their “race to membership”, few studies if none have addressed not only how these state relate themselves to the organisation, but also how they behave in it and what n…
Do you know what I mean?’ ‘Not exactly’: English School, global international society and the polysemy of institutions
The English School has recently focussed on sub-global political developments, inaugurating a new research agenda on how regional international societies are formed and evolve. However, while regional international societies can adopt more or less institutions than those at the global level, they may take some institutions present at the global level to mean something different. In this paper, it is tentatively argued that the development of regi…
World society as a shared ethnos and the limits of world society in Central Asia
One Belt, One Road and Central Asia: Challenges and Opportunities
Russia and the CIS in 2017
Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia’s “eastward pivot” has intensified, mainly observable as strengthened relations with China, which appear to be evolving into a quasi-alliance. This places in question Russian attempts at diversification in the Asia-Pacific, and its position in Central Asia, where China’s Belt and Road Initiative challenges Russian influence
Spheres of Influence as Negotiated Hegemony - The Case of Central Asia
In the nineteenth century, as well as during the Cold War, spheres of influence were created and legitimized to pursue and sustain order in world politics, as well as to avoid direct confrontation between the great powers. Nowadays, they are considered as belonging to a past characterized by confrontation, power politics, balance of power and coercion. Yet, spheres of influence still constitute part of the present-day political vocabulary, and se…
Russia and the CIS in 2018
Russia’s “Asian pivot” remains focused on China, despite energetic Russian diplomacy in 2018 vis-à-vis Japan and India. The benefits of the enlargement of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to include Pakistan and India remained unclear, and the overlapping memberships of regional organizations highlighted the challenges for security and economic cooperation in Central Asia
The Pervasive Nature of Power in Central Asia
In International Relations, “Central Asia” and “power” are often linked to either Great Power politics or authoritarianism. Yet, as “power” is a multifaceted component of social life, this paper suggests a comprehensive framework to analyze its different understandings and operations in the region. By adopting the typology of Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall, the paper has three aims. First, to review the recent literature on power and Central …
Accommodating Revisionism through Balancing Regionalism: The Case of Central Asia
The Central Asian states face the challenge of containing Russia’s revisionism in the post-Soviet space while maintaining cooperative relations with it and integrating diplomatically and economically into the international system. This essay argues that the Central Asian states are managing this revisionism through a strategy we refer to as ‘balancing regionalism’: cooperating among themselves and with multiple actors to insulate themselves from …
Is the English School still an underexploited resource? And whither the English School? An introduction 1
Peer reviewed
Authoritarianism as an Institution? The Case of Central Asia
While much of the English School has focused on liberal aspects of solidarism, forms of “illiberal solidarism” in contemporary international society remain underexplored. Drawing on archival material and elite interviews conducted in Central Asia in the period 2013–2019, this paper advances the claim that the Central Asian elites have developed the institution of authoritarianism in their region through the mechanisms of mimicry/emulation and pra…
When states and individuals meet: The UN Ombudsperson as a 'contact point' between international and world society
Interaction between individuals and states is considered a distinctive character of domestic politics, while international politics is the 'realm of states'. However, it is becoming more common to encounter loci where both states and individuals interact at the international level, such as in the cases of the Special Tribunals for Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Former Yugoslavia as well as the International Criminal Court (ICC). Within the…
Central Asian Regionalism or Central Asian Order? Some Reflections
This article reflects on how the concept of regionalism has been used to explain and interpret Central Asian politics since independence. It argues that regionalism, often a norm-laden analytical category based on Eurocentric assumptions, tends to paint the region as “failed” and regional states as incapable of institutionalizing multilateral relations. In its place, the article suggests the concept of order, which is more neutral and—through its…
Theorizing the Nature of Power in Central Asia. Introduction to the Special Issue
The concept of power is key in social and political theory: it explains the ways in which processes and realities occur and makes it possible to theorize about the nature of governance, action, res
Contestation of the liberal order: A populist script of regional cooperation
That the liberal international order (LIO) and the global governance regime associated with it are undergoing a phase of contestation at best, and dismantling at worst, is a well-acknowledged trope in the current literature on International Relations (IR). The experiences and the legacies of Brexit and the Trump presidency have served as a cogent support for the argument that ‘populists’ and ‘populist politicians’ are behind the erosion of multil…
The International Society tradition: From Hugo Grotius to Hedley Bull’ and ‘International Society: the English School’
I recently rewatched Paolo Sorrentino's film The great beauty, when, at a crossroads, the protagonist is told that ‘roots are important’. From that moment, the main character sees the world more clearly, and reconnects with his inner talents, desires and self. Similarly, the role of roots is at the centre of Cornelia Navari's book, The International Society tradition. In it, Navari situates the concept of International Society (or more precisely …
Beyond the pendulum: Situating Adam Watson in International Relations and the English School
Among the founding figures of the English School of International Relations (ES) and the British Committee (BC), Adam Watson is perhaps the least studied and researched. How, for example, did his past as diplomat informed his Weltanschauung and his understanding of combining theory and practice? How did his academic relationship and friendship with other members of the BC and colleagues shaped his outlook on international politics? What was his p…
English School Special Section
This is a series of solicited articles requested by the editors of Vol. 51, emerging from a roundtable discussion held at the 2022 International Studies Association Convention. Each short contribution seeks to demonstrate the newest research of the English School of International Relations. These contributions tackle key questions including: the decline of liberal hegemony, the rise of China, the divide between soldaristic and pluralistic ethics,…
Adam Watson and international relations: A Contemporary Reassessment—introduction
This is the introduction to the special issue 'Adam Watson and International Relations: A Contemporary Reassessment'. In this short piece, the guest editors outline the genesis, development, and purpose of the project, offer a rationale for the special issue, summarise the papers in it, and reflect on the importance of Adam Watson within the English School and International Relations canons
Of nomads and khanates: Heteronomy and interpolity order in 19th-century Central Asia
Scholars of International Relations (IR) and Global Historical Sociology alike have recently become more and more interested in Eurasian order(s). Yet, most recent works on Eurasian historical international relations approach the subject from a long durée perspective, mostly focusing on “big polities” from a “high altitude.” Central Asia, or “Turkestan,” and its constitutive polities such as the khanates of Bukhara, Khiva, and Khoqand and the vas…
Central Asian regionalism in the 1990s: Order, familiarization, and spotlighting
Funding: The Royal Society of Edinburgh (2905)
The reactionary internationale: The Rise of the New Right and the Reconstruction of International Society
New Right actors are vocally seeking to change key international relations practices and institutions. We enquire how their philosophy of the international, which we call Reactionary Internationalism, is being socialised by a diverse group of international actors. Engaging with English School conceptualisations of international society and deploying discursive analysis of diplomatic positions, we examine the diplomacy of New Right actors and symp…
The Consultative Meetings of Heads of State of Central Asia: Local norms, institutions and the fundamentals of regional order
Since 2018, the presidents of the five central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have gathered annually to participate in the Consultative Meetings of Heads of States of the region. This institutional development has been hailed as a new step towards integration and cooperation in central Asia. Yet several scholars and commentators describe this format as mostly a ‘talking shop’ that pays lip servi…
Political science (22 works) · Law (19 works) · Politics (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (14 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (12 works) · International relations (10 works) · Central asia (9 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (9 works) · Political economy (9 works)