Audie Klotz
Biographic Data
| ID | 204567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Audie Klotz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Audie |
| FAMILY NAME | Klotz |
| SIGNATURE | KLOTZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4198-1808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 359 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Norms in International Relations: The Struggle Against Apartheid
Applying a social-constructivist approach to her richly detailed case history, Audie Jeanne Klotz demonstrates that normative standards such as racial equality can serve as much more than a weak constraint on fundamental strategic concerns.
Contesting the World: Norm Research in Theory and Practice
Over the past thirty years, norms research has evolved into a significant subfield within International Relations and beyond. 'Contesting the World' delves into the development of norms, exploring their emergence, change and legitimacy on both domestic and international levels. This in-depth volume presents the interpretation-contestation framework, positioning it as the primary theoretical mechanism for understanding norms. Leading scholars span…
Imperial migration states
In the past decade, theorising about migration policy has rapidly included more states beyond Western Europe or North America. Expanding the temporal and geographical range of conventional cases destabilises reification of the nation-state and challenges Eurocentric conceptions of sovereignty. By reexamining British settler colonies, alongside the United States, I develop an Imperial Migration State concept to characterise macro-historical shifts…
Social Status and Gendered Pathways to Citizenship
Despite decades of research on naturalization, the relationship between gender and the decision to naturalize is under-theorized. Given that women's lived experiences of migration are distinctive from those of men, we ask whether and how gender plays into immigrants’ naturalization decisions. We explore gendered migration trajectories by incorporating Michael Piore's concept of social status as an additional rationale for naturalization. To bette…
Unsettling origin stories
In the past decade or so, the field of International Relations (IR) has increasingly acknowledged pervasive racism in its institutional foundations and its research agendas. Writing in this context
Refugee rights or refugees as threats? Germany’s new Asylum policy
On-going Mediterranean migration highlights serious tensions over asylum policy in Germany, among European Union members, and with neighbouring states. Yet commentaries thus far lack a clear understanding of these complex dynamics and their policy implications, because each typically relies on only one of two analytically distinct frameworks: either refugee rights or refugees as threats. Instead, we integrate these frameworks. Specifically, we ju…
Borders and the Roots of Xenophobia in South Africa
Responses to migration are intricately linked to the demarcation of borders and hence separate citizenships. In South Africa, the racist roots of the connection between nationality and territory is especially significant for understanding anti-foreigner violence. Ameliorating xenophobia, in turn, requires destabilising this foundation, from the abstract world of social theory, through assumptions embedded within policymaking processes, down to pu…
Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations
Constructivism's basic premise - that individuals and groups are shaped by their world but can also change it - may seem intuitively true. Yet this process-oriented approach can be more difficult to apply than structural or rational choice frameworks. Based on their own experiences and exemplars from the IR literature, well-known authors Audie Klotz and Cecelia Lynch lay out concepts and tools for anyone seeking to apply the constructivist approa…
How far does ‘societal security’ travel? Securitization in South African immigration policies
Responding to political developments in Europe during the 1990s, the Copenhagen School drew on speech act theory to argue that state leaders represent certain issues, including immigration, as existential threats to society. Two decades of friendly amendments and vociferous critiques have raised questions about how well the Copenhagen School’s core concept of ‘societal security’ travels outside Europe. To assess the scope of this ‘securitization’…
Melancholia of freedom: Social life in an Indian township in South Africa
Migration and National Identity in South Africa, 1860–2010
An extraordinary outbreak of xenophobic violence in May 2008 shocked South Africa, but hostility toward newcomers has a long history. Democratization has channeled such discontent into a non-racial nationalism that specifically targets foreign Africans as a threat to prosperity. Finding suitable governmental and societal responses requires a better understanding of the complex legacies of segregation that underpin current immigration policies and…
Committees of Apsa
The administrative committee consists of the president, president-elect, treasurer, and four other council members whose main duties include preparing agendas for council meetings and annual business meetings and acting on behalf of the council to dispose of policy issues deemed of insufficient weight to require decisions by the council
South Africa as an Immigration State
A dramatic outburst of xenophobic violence in May 2008 spotlighted South Africa's place among countries of immigration. While a plethora of policy studies have examined many micro-level dynamics in these attacks, surprisingly little attention has been paid to underlying political causes. By applying the comparative ‘immigration state’ literature, I offer a counter-intuitive, two-part explanation for the complex and often contradictory mix of Sout…
Qualitative Methods in International Relations: A Pluralist Guide
In association with the
Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations (International Relations in a Constructed World)
Translating Terminologies
Recognizing that a shared ontology of mutual constitution points to common research questions is only possible if we move beyond the epistemological divide that riddles constructivist debates. Yet, we do need to understand alternative terminologies rather than simply privilege one set of assumptions over the other. Two key issues lead researchers to talk past each other: (1) the putative distinction between explanation and understanding and (2) i…
Moving Beyond the Agent?Structure Debate
This forum contrasts two perspectives regarding methodology, written by researchers with avowedly opposing epistemologies. Jeffrey Checkel represents the positivist side, with Kevin Dunn advocating post-positivism. To clarify the assumptions underpinning this juxtaposition, Audie Klotz & Cecelia Lynch revisit the characterization of this epistemological divide & suggest that it unduly overshadows significant agreement. Scholars such as Checkel an…
International Legitimation of Social Movements: The Rise and Decline of Ethnic Nationalism in South Africa
Taking It to the Streets
The surge in protests against globalization in recent years has provided an incentive for observers and practitioners of international relations to acquaint themselves with social movement theory. Although not claiming to be an introduction, Social Movements: Identity, Culture, and the State offers an accessible overview, with a balance between cases from around the world and a theoretical synthesis. The volume—edited by David Meyer, Nancy Whitti…
Commonsense Constructivism, or the Making of World Affairs
Journal Article Commonsense Constructivism, or the Making of World Affairs Get access Commonsense Constructivism, or the Making of World Affairs by Ralph Pettman. Armonk, NY, M.E. Sharpe, 2000. 256 pp. Cloth, $65.95; paper, $25.95. Audie Klotz Audie Klotz University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 117, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Page 172, https://doi.or…
Transnational Activism and Global Transformations: The Anti-Apartheid and Abolitionist Experiences
Communications technology, many analysts proclaim, heralds a profoundly transformed new world where time and space take on new meanings. As a result, networks of non-state actors proliferate, altering the functions of international organizations and creating new pressures on states. Yet previous eras also witnessed social activists pursuing their agendas through and around national governments. Then as now, social forces and global norms impinged…
Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernment Organizations since 1875 . John Boli , George M. Thomas
Migration after apartheid: Deracialising South African foreign policy
Some critics have pointed to South Africa's restrictive migration policy as one of the areas most deficient in overturning apartheid legacies. Yet it is not a lack of democratic process that forestalls change-witness open parliamentary debate, an array of think-tanks and researchers providing input into the policy-making process, and the mobilisation of diverse grassroots voices. Rather, a new non-racial xenophobia creates a potent barrier to ref…
How Sanctions Work: Lessons from South Africa
SANCTIONSReviews by Margaret P. Doxey, Emeritus Professor, Trent UniversityEdited by Neta C.Crawford and Audie KlotzNew York: St. Martin's, 1999, xv, 292pp, US$59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-312-21854-0), US$19.95 paper (ISBN 0-312-21856-7)It is not surprising that extensive use of sanctions by the United Nations Security Council since 1990 and continued reliance on sanctions as a foreign policy tool by the United States have prompted much scholarly activit…
Le constructivisme dans la théorie des relations internationales
aujourd'hui dans la littrature thorique des relations internationales, dnote une contestation des postulats strictement matrialistes ou individualistes, suppose permettre de mieux comprendre les changements observs dans la politique mondiale. Nous ne cherchons pas ici en imposer une dfinition hgmonique, mais amorcer une discussion constructive , justement, sur ses possibilits et ses limites. Loin d'occulter ou d'estomper les divergences entre les…
Norms reconstituting interests: Global racial equality and U.S. sanctions against South Africa
The extraordinary success of transnational anti-apartheid activists in generating great power sanctions against South Africa offers ample evidence that norms, independent of strategic and economic considerations, are an important factor in determining states' policies. The crucial role of a strengthened global norm of racial equality in motivating U.S. anti-apartheid sanctions illustrates the limitations of conventional international relations th…
Norms in International Relations: The Struggle Against Apartheid
Applying a social-constructivist approach to her richly detailed case history, Audie Jeanne Klotz demonstrates that normative standards such as racial equality can serve as much more than a weak constraint on fundamental strategic concerns.
Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations
Constructivism's basic premise - that individuals and groups are shaped by their world but can also change it - may seem intuitively true. Yet this process-oriented approach can be more difficult to apply than structural or rational choice frameworks. Based on their own experiences and exemplars from the IR literature, well-known authors Audie Klotz and Cecelia Lynch lay out concepts and tools for anyone seeking to apply the constructivist approa…
Transnational Activism and Global Transformations: The Anti-Apartheid and Abolitionist Experiences
Communications technology, many analysts proclaim, heralds a profoundly transformed new world where time and space take on new meanings. As a result, networks of non-state actors proliferate, altering the functions of international organizations and creating new pressures on states. Yet previous eras also witnessed social activists pursuing their agendas through and around national governments. Then as now, social forces and global norms impinged…
Migration after apartheid: Deracialising South African foreign policy
Some critics have pointed to South Africa's restrictive migration policy as one of the areas most deficient in overturning apartheid legacies. Yet it is not a lack of democratic process that forestalls change-witness open parliamentary debate, an array of think-tanks and researchers providing input into the policy-making process, and the mobilisation of diverse grassroots voices. Rather, a new non-racial xenophobia creates a potent barrier to ref…
Refugee rights or refugees as threats? Germany’s new Asylum policy
On-going Mediterranean migration highlights serious tensions over asylum policy in Germany, among European Union members, and with neighbouring states. Yet commentaries thus far lack a clear understanding of these complex dynamics and their policy implications, because each typically relies on only one of two analytically distinct frameworks: either refugee rights or refugees as threats. Instead, we integrate these frameworks. Specifically, we ju…
South Africa as an Immigration State
A dramatic outburst of xenophobic violence in May 2008 spotlighted South Africa's place among countries of immigration. While a plethora of policy studies have examined many micro-level dynamics in these attacks, surprisingly little attention has been paid to underlying political causes. By applying the comparative ‘immigration state’ literature, I offer a counter-intuitive, two-part explanation for the complex and often contradictory mix of Sout…
Imperial migration states
In the past decade, theorising about migration policy has rapidly included more states beyond Western Europe or North America. Expanding the temporal and geographical range of conventional cases destabilises reification of the nation-state and challenges Eurocentric conceptions of sovereignty. By reexamining British settler colonies, alongside the United States, I develop an Imperial Migration State concept to characterise macro-historical shifts…
How far does ‘societal security’ travel? Securitization in South African immigration policies
Responding to political developments in Europe during the 1990s, the Copenhagen School drew on speech act theory to argue that state leaders represent certain issues, including immigration, as existential threats to society. Two decades of friendly amendments and vociferous critiques have raised questions about how well the Copenhagen School’s core concept of ‘societal security’ travels outside Europe. To assess the scope of this ‘securitization’…
How Sanctions Work: Lessons from South Africa
SANCTIONSReviews by Margaret P. Doxey, Emeritus Professor, Trent UniversityEdited by Neta C.Crawford and Audie KlotzNew York: St. Martin's, 1999, xv, 292pp, US$59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-312-21854-0), US$19.95 paper (ISBN 0-312-21856-7)It is not surprising that extensive use of sanctions by the United Nations Security Council since 1990 and continued reliance on sanctions as a foreign policy tool by the United States have prompted much scholarly activit…
Borders and the Roots of Xenophobia in South Africa
Responses to migration are intricately linked to the demarcation of borders and hence separate citizenships. In South Africa, the racist roots of the connection between nationality and territory is especially significant for understanding anti-foreigner violence. Ameliorating xenophobia, in turn, requires destabilising this foundation, from the abstract world of social theory, through assumptions embedded within policymaking processes, down to pu…
Moving Beyond the Agent?Structure Debate
This forum contrasts two perspectives regarding methodology, written by researchers with avowedly opposing epistemologies. Jeffrey Checkel represents the positivist side, with Kevin Dunn advocating post-positivism. To clarify the assumptions underpinning this juxtaposition, Audie Klotz & Cecelia Lynch revisit the characterization of this epistemological divide & suggest that it unduly overshadows significant agreement. Scholars such as Checkel an…
Norms and sanctions: Lessons from the socialization of South Africa
In response to South Africa's increasingly institutionalized racial discrimination during the postwar years, transnational anti-apartheid activists advocated a vast array of global sanctions. With the formal abolition of apartheid in 1991, sanctions advocates celebrated the apparent success of the international community's efforts in promoting a global norm of racial equality in South Africa. Since similar sanctions are an increasingly popular po…
Translating Terminologies
Recognizing that a shared ontology of mutual constitution points to common research questions is only possible if we move beyond the epistemological divide that riddles constructivist debates. Yet, we do need to understand alternative terminologies rather than simply privilege one set of assumptions over the other. Two key issues lead researchers to talk past each other: (1) the putative distinction between explanation and understanding and (2) i…
Social Status and Gendered Pathways to Citizenship
Despite decades of research on naturalization, the relationship between gender and the decision to naturalize is under-theorized. Given that women's lived experiences of migration are distinctive from those of men, we ask whether and how gender plays into immigrants’ naturalization decisions. We explore gendered migration trajectories by incorporating Michael Piore's concept of social status as an additional rationale for naturalization. To bette…
Race and nationalism in Zimbabwean foreign policy
(1993). Race and nationalism in Zimbabwean foreign policy. The Round Table: Vol. 82, No. 327, pp. 255-279
Melancholia of freedom: Social life in an Indian township in South Africa
Committees of Apsa
The administrative committee consists of the president, president-elect, treasurer, and four other council members whose main duties include preparing agendas for council meetings and annual business meetings and acting on behalf of the council to dispose of policy issues deemed of insufficient weight to require decisions by the council
Le constructivisme dans la théorie des relations internationales
aujourd'hui dans la littrature thorique des relations internationales, dnote une contestation des postulats strictement matrialistes ou individualistes, suppose permettre de mieux comprendre les changements observs dans la politique mondiale. Nous ne cherchons pas ici en imposer une dfinition hgmonique, mais amorcer une discussion constructive , justement, sur ses possibilits et ses limites. Loin d'occulter ou d'estomper les divergences entre les…
Race and nationalism in Zimbabwean foreign policy
(1993). Race and nationalism in Zimbabwean foreign policy. The Round Table: Vol. 82, No. 327, pp. 255-279
Norms reconstituting interests: Global racial equality and U.S. sanctions against South Africa
The extraordinary success of transnational anti-apartheid activists in generating great power sanctions against South Africa offers ample evidence that norms, independent of strategic and economic considerations, are an important factor in determining states' policies. The crucial role of a strengthened global norm of racial equality in motivating U.S. anti-apartheid sanctions illustrates the limitations of conventional international relations th…
Norms and sanctions: Lessons from the socialization of South Africa
In response to South Africa's increasingly institutionalized racial discrimination during the postwar years, transnational anti-apartheid activists advocated a vast array of global sanctions. With the formal abolition of apartheid in 1991, sanctions advocates celebrated the apparent success of the international community's efforts in promoting a global norm of racial equality in South Africa. Since similar sanctions are an increasingly popular po…
The Return of Culture and Identity in Ir Theory
In an examination of cultural change in the post-Cold War era, this work addresses a series of questions covering topics such as the lack of interest in culture and identity in IR theory, and the case for rethinking the contemporary theoretical reach of the concepts
International Relations and Migration in Southern Africa
(1997). INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND MIGRATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA. African Security Review: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 38-45
Le constructivisme dans la théorie des relations internationales
aujourd'hui dans la littrature thorique des relations internationales, dnote une contestation des postulats strictement matrialistes ou individualistes, suppose permettre de mieux comprendre les changements observs dans la politique mondiale. Nous ne cherchons pas ici en imposer une dfinition hgmonique, mais amorcer une discussion constructive , justement, sur ses possibilits et ses limites. Loin d'occulter ou d'estomper les divergences entre les…
Le constructivisme dans la théorie des relations internationales
aujourd'hui dans la littrature thorique des relations internationales, dnote une contestation des postulats strictement matrialistes ou individualistes, suppose permettre de mieux comprendre les changements observs dans la politique mondiale. Nous ne cherchons pas ici en imposer une dfinition hgmonique, mais amorcer une discussion constructive , justement, sur ses possibilits et ses limites. Loin d'occulter ou d'estomper les divergences entre les…
Migration after apartheid: Deracialising South African foreign policy
Some critics have pointed to South Africa's restrictive migration policy as one of the areas most deficient in overturning apartheid legacies. Yet it is not a lack of democratic process that forestalls change-witness open parliamentary debate, an array of think-tanks and researchers providing input into the policy-making process, and the mobilisation of diverse grassroots voices. Rather, a new non-racial xenophobia creates a potent barrier to ref…
How Sanctions Work: Lessons from South Africa
SANCTIONSReviews by Margaret P. Doxey, Emeritus Professor, Trent UniversityEdited by Neta C.Crawford and Audie KlotzNew York: St. Martin's, 1999, xv, 292pp, US$59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-312-21854-0), US$19.95 paper (ISBN 0-312-21856-7)It is not surprising that extensive use of sanctions by the United Nations Security Council since 1990 and continued reliance on sanctions as a foreign policy tool by the United States have prompted much scholarly activit…
Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernment Organizations since 1875 . John Boli , George M. Thomas
Commonsense Constructivism, or the Making of World Affairs
Journal Article Commonsense Constructivism, or the Making of World Affairs Get access Commonsense Constructivism, or the Making of World Affairs by Ralph Pettman. Armonk, NY, M.E. Sharpe, 2000. 256 pp. Cloth, $65.95; paper, $25.95. Audie Klotz Audie Klotz University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 117, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Page 172, https://doi.or…
Transnational Activism and Global Transformations: The Anti-Apartheid and Abolitionist Experiences
Communications technology, many analysts proclaim, heralds a profoundly transformed new world where time and space take on new meanings. As a result, networks of non-state actors proliferate, altering the functions of international organizations and creating new pressures on states. Yet previous eras also witnessed social activists pursuing their agendas through and around national governments. Then as now, social forces and global norms impinged…
Taking It to the Streets
The surge in protests against globalization in recent years has provided an incentive for observers and practitioners of international relations to acquaint themselves with social movement theory. Although not claiming to be an introduction, Social Movements: Identity, Culture, and the State offers an accessible overview, with a balance between cases from around the world and a theoretical synthesis. The volume—edited by David Meyer, Nancy Whitti…
Translating Terminologies
Recognizing that a shared ontology of mutual constitution points to common research questions is only possible if we move beyond the epistemological divide that riddles constructivist debates. Yet, we do need to understand alternative terminologies rather than simply privilege one set of assumptions over the other. Two key issues lead researchers to talk past each other: (1) the putative distinction between explanation and understanding and (2) i…
Moving Beyond the Agent?Structure Debate
This forum contrasts two perspectives regarding methodology, written by researchers with avowedly opposing epistemologies. Jeffrey Checkel represents the positivist side, with Kevin Dunn advocating post-positivism. To clarify the assumptions underpinning this juxtaposition, Audie Klotz & Cecelia Lynch revisit the characterization of this epistemological divide & suggest that it unduly overshadows significant agreement. Scholars such as Checkel an…
International Legitimation of Social Movements: The Rise and Decline of Ethnic Nationalism in South Africa
Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations (International Relations in a Constructed World)
Qualitative Methods in International Relations: A Pluralist Guide
In association with the
Committees of Apsa
The administrative committee consists of the president, president-elect, treasurer, and four other council members whose main duties include preparing agendas for council meetings and annual business meetings and acting on behalf of the council to dispose of policy issues deemed of insufficient weight to require decisions by the council
South Africa as an Immigration State
A dramatic outburst of xenophobic violence in May 2008 spotlighted South Africa's place among countries of immigration. While a plethora of policy studies have examined many micro-level dynamics in these attacks, surprisingly little attention has been paid to underlying political causes. By applying the comparative ‘immigration state’ literature, I offer a counter-intuitive, two-part explanation for the complex and often contradictory mix of Sout…
Migration and National Identity in South Africa, 1860–2010
An extraordinary outbreak of xenophobic violence in May 2008 shocked South Africa, but hostility toward newcomers has a long history. Democratization has channeled such discontent into a non-racial nationalism that specifically targets foreign Africans as a threat to prosperity. Finding suitable governmental and societal responses requires a better understanding of the complex legacies of segregation that underpin current immigration policies and…
Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations
Constructivism's basic premise - that individuals and groups are shaped by their world but can also change it - may seem intuitively true. Yet this process-oriented approach can be more difficult to apply than structural or rational choice frameworks. Based on their own experiences and exemplars from the IR literature, well-known authors Audie Klotz and Cecelia Lynch lay out concepts and tools for anyone seeking to apply the constructivist approa…
How far does ‘societal security’ travel? Securitization in South African immigration policies
Responding to political developments in Europe during the 1990s, the Copenhagen School drew on speech act theory to argue that state leaders represent certain issues, including immigration, as existential threats to society. Two decades of friendly amendments and vociferous critiques have raised questions about how well the Copenhagen School’s core concept of ‘societal security’ travels outside Europe. To assess the scope of this ‘securitization’…
Melancholia of freedom: Social life in an Indian township in South Africa
Borders and the Roots of Xenophobia in South Africa
Responses to migration are intricately linked to the demarcation of borders and hence separate citizenships. In South Africa, the racist roots of the connection between nationality and territory is especially significant for understanding anti-foreigner violence. Ameliorating xenophobia, in turn, requires destabilising this foundation, from the abstract world of social theory, through assumptions embedded within policymaking processes, down to pu…
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