Aaron C Mckeil
Biographic Data
| ID | 1598867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron C Mckeil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron C |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckeil |
| SIGNATURE | MCKEIL A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1649-0019 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Can the great powers reorder war? The Dice of Mars and disordering of the ‘liberal’ war regime
This article suggests that debates on the disordering of the ‘liberal’ international order stand to benefit from the further study of how the ordering of war itself is changing. It considers how war is not only spreading, intensifying, and rapidly evolving in technological means, but also becoming increasingly contested. To advance this study, it introduces the concept of ‘war regimes’ and traces the succession of war regimes in the modern experi…
Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and International Disorder
While the idea of a cosmopolitan order embracing all humankind is ancient, after the Cold War it was widely believed to be an emerging future. As global interdependence and interaction through new technologies increased, literature of cosmopolitan globalization argued that these changes were setting the stage for a structural transformation of world politics. Yet, a revolt against globalism and increasingly divisive and unstable international ord…
Becoming International by Jens Bartelson
Hegemonic orders and the idea of history
This article makes the case that the literature of hegemonic orders and debates on the crisis of US hegemony have been shaped and up to a point intellectually confined by a tradition or idea of world history understood as a series of hegemonic powers. This tradition of history as a succession of hegemonic powers is traced from ancient to modern sources, later reconstituted as a theoretical discourse. In drawing attention to the historical traditi…
Revisiting the World Order Models Project
In a context of crisis in global order today, this article proposes revisiting the World Order Models Project (WOMP), towards an evaluation of its relevance and potential contributions to contemporary debates and challenges. From this revisiting, this article argues that WOMP suffered from problematic methodological limitations and does not constitute a substitute for conventional contemporary approaches to global order today, but some of its pro…
Libya and the global enduring disorder
Why are international politics seemingly marked by increasing disorder today? Is this condition novel, and will it persist, improve or worsen? Jason Pack argues that the Libyan intervention and its aftermath offer an important case-study for understanding how contemporary international politics are defined by a novel form of global disorder that is deliberate and persistent. Pack's main explanatory discussion is found in the introduction and pref…
Order without Victory
This article contributes a step towards the consolidation of the wide-ranging intellectual history and rapidly growing literature of international order theory. It traces the development of international order theory across three eras: 1919 and the interwar era; 1945 and the Cold War era; and 1989–1991, the post-Cold War era and rise of the “liberal” order debate. Gathering this history finds that critics in contemporary debates are deploying arg…
Global Disorder
The international society approach to the study of international relations has advanced a distinct understanding of international order in world politics. Does this approach therefore also implicitly have a distinct understanding of disorder in world politics, too? From a close reading of this literature, and the writings of Hedley Bull in particular, I argue that a “purposive” understanding of disorder in world politics is evident, as well as a …
The Limits of Realism after Liberal Hegemony
This review essay conducts and works to contribute an assessment of recent realist critiques of liberal hegemony. It finds that realists identify important problems with liberal hegemony, but also finds that under scrutiny the alternative foreign policies that realist critics offer suffer from their own serious limitations. It makes the case that realist proposals of “restraint” and “offshore balancing” avoid the problems realists associate with …
On the concept of international disorder
International relations today are widely considered to be experiencing deepening disorder and the topic of international disorder is gaining increased attention. Yet, despite this recent interest in international disorder, in and beyond the academy, and despite the decades-long interest in international order, there is still little agreement on the concept of international disorder, which is often used imprecisely and with an alarmist rather than…
Conceptualizing world society
The Modern International Imaginary
This article aims to bridge the literature of modern social imaginaries with the growing study of modernity in International Relations. Employing a Taylorian conceptual framework and account, the case is made for understanding modern international relations as enabled and constrained by a “modern international imaginary”, which forms a significant part of the modern social imaginary more generally. It is argued that a modern social imaginaries ap…
A silhouette of utopia
Global Societies Are Social Things
This article reassesses the concept of a global society in light of recent historical analyses of the concepts of the social and society in the literature of International Relations. It is argued that the distinction between the social and society makes many theories of a global society indistinguishable from a global social system. However, it is also argued that those conceptions of a global society that emphasise its societal qualities are vul…
Global Disorder
The international society approach to the study of international relations has advanced a distinct understanding of international order in world politics. Does this approach therefore also implicitly have a distinct understanding of disorder in world politics, too? From a close reading of this literature, and the writings of Hedley Bull in particular, I argue that a “purposive” understanding of disorder in world politics is evident, as well as a …
Conceptualizing world society
On the concept of international disorder
International relations today are widely considered to be experiencing deepening disorder and the topic of international disorder is gaining increased attention. Yet, despite this recent interest in international disorder, in and beyond the academy, and despite the decades-long interest in international order, there is still little agreement on the concept of international disorder, which is often used imprecisely and with an alarmist rather than…
Order without Victory
This article contributes a step towards the consolidation of the wide-ranging intellectual history and rapidly growing literature of international order theory. It traces the development of international order theory across three eras: 1919 and the interwar era; 1945 and the Cold War era; and 1989–1991, the post-Cold War era and rise of the “liberal” order debate. Gathering this history finds that critics in contemporary debates are deploying arg…
Libya and the global enduring disorder
Why are international politics seemingly marked by increasing disorder today? Is this condition novel, and will it persist, improve or worsen? Jason Pack argues that the Libyan intervention and its aftermath offer an important case-study for understanding how contemporary international politics are defined by a novel form of global disorder that is deliberate and persistent. Pack's main explanatory discussion is found in the introduction and pref…
A silhouette of utopia
Hegemonic orders and the idea of history
This article makes the case that the literature of hegemonic orders and debates on the crisis of US hegemony have been shaped and up to a point intellectually confined by a tradition or idea of world history understood as a series of hegemonic powers. This tradition of history as a succession of hegemonic powers is traced from ancient to modern sources, later reconstituted as a theoretical discourse. In drawing attention to the historical traditi…
Global Societies Are Social Things
This article reassesses the concept of a global society in light of recent historical analyses of the concepts of the social and society in the literature of International Relations. It is argued that the distinction between the social and society makes many theories of a global society indistinguishable from a global social system. However, it is also argued that those conceptions of a global society that emphasise its societal qualities are vul…
A silhouette of utopia
Global Societies Are Social Things
This article reassesses the concept of a global society in light of recent historical analyses of the concepts of the social and society in the literature of International Relations. It is argued that the distinction between the social and society makes many theories of a global society indistinguishable from a global social system. However, it is also argued that those conceptions of a global society that emphasise its societal qualities are vul…
Conceptualizing world society
The Modern International Imaginary
This article aims to bridge the literature of modern social imaginaries with the growing study of modernity in International Relations. Employing a Taylorian conceptual framework and account, the case is made for understanding modern international relations as enabled and constrained by a “modern international imaginary”, which forms a significant part of the modern social imaginary more generally. It is argued that a modern social imaginaries ap…
The Limits of Realism after Liberal Hegemony
This review essay conducts and works to contribute an assessment of recent realist critiques of liberal hegemony. It finds that realists identify important problems with liberal hegemony, but also finds that under scrutiny the alternative foreign policies that realist critics offer suffer from their own serious limitations. It makes the case that realist proposals of “restraint” and “offshore balancing” avoid the problems realists associate with …
On the concept of international disorder
International relations today are widely considered to be experiencing deepening disorder and the topic of international disorder is gaining increased attention. Yet, despite this recent interest in international disorder, in and beyond the academy, and despite the decades-long interest in international order, there is still little agreement on the concept of international disorder, which is often used imprecisely and with an alarmist rather than…
Revisiting the World Order Models Project
In a context of crisis in global order today, this article proposes revisiting the World Order Models Project (WOMP), towards an evaluation of its relevance and potential contributions to contemporary debates and challenges. From this revisiting, this article argues that WOMP suffered from problematic methodological limitations and does not constitute a substitute for conventional contemporary approaches to global order today, but some of its pro…
Libya and the global enduring disorder
Why are international politics seemingly marked by increasing disorder today? Is this condition novel, and will it persist, improve or worsen? Jason Pack argues that the Libyan intervention and its aftermath offer an important case-study for understanding how contemporary international politics are defined by a novel form of global disorder that is deliberate and persistent. Pack's main explanatory discussion is found in the introduction and pref…
Order without Victory
This article contributes a step towards the consolidation of the wide-ranging intellectual history and rapidly growing literature of international order theory. It traces the development of international order theory across three eras: 1919 and the interwar era; 1945 and the Cold War era; and 1989–1991, the post-Cold War era and rise of the “liberal” order debate. Gathering this history finds that critics in contemporary debates are deploying arg…
Global Disorder
The international society approach to the study of international relations has advanced a distinct understanding of international order in world politics. Does this approach therefore also implicitly have a distinct understanding of disorder in world politics, too? From a close reading of this literature, and the writings of Hedley Bull in particular, I argue that a “purposive” understanding of disorder in world politics is evident, as well as a …
Hegemonic orders and the idea of history
This article makes the case that the literature of hegemonic orders and debates on the crisis of US hegemony have been shaped and up to a point intellectually confined by a tradition or idea of world history understood as a series of hegemonic powers. This tradition of history as a succession of hegemonic powers is traced from ancient to modern sources, later reconstituted as a theoretical discourse. In drawing attention to the historical traditi…
Becoming International by Jens Bartelson
Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and International Disorder
While the idea of a cosmopolitan order embracing all humankind is ancient, after the Cold War it was widely believed to be an emerging future. As global interdependence and interaction through new technologies increased, literature of cosmopolitan globalization argued that these changes were setting the stage for a structural transformation of world politics. Yet, a revolt against globalism and increasingly divisive and unstable international ord…
Can the great powers reorder war? The Dice of Mars and disordering of the ‘liberal’ war regime
This article suggests that debates on the disordering of the ‘liberal’ international order stand to benefit from the further study of how the ordering of war itself is changing. It considers how war is not only spreading, intensifying, and rapidly evolving in technological means, but also becoming increasingly contested. To advance this study, it introduces the concept of ‘war regimes’ and traces the succession of war regimes in the modern experi…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · International relations (6 works) · Social science (6 works)