Ian Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7698-2715 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 74 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Hard‐to‐Reach Insider Actors on Light‐Touch Labour Market Regulation in the UK
Actors who deliver state policy on low wage precarious workers on the front‐line manage coercion and exploitation in the workplace by accepting the presence of both through permissiveness rather than seeking enforcement of labour market regulations. To develop this argument the article examines permissiveness in compliance, deterrence, and intelligence approaches used by regulators and enforcement agencies. The article provides a contribution to …
Disguising 'Taking Money Out of a Firm
Disconnected capitalism' is a thesis defined and developed in Work, Employment and Society. This article contributes to the sociology of work by further developing the thesis both theoretically and empirically. The article does so by specifying how accounting practices enable investor-owner managers to take money out of firms with detrimental consequences for workers. Empirically, this development of the thesis is based on four case studies where…
Informalization in gig food delivery in the UK
This article examines the process of informalization of work in platform food delivery work in the UK. Drawing on qualitative data, this article provides new analytical insight into what drives individual formal couriers to both supply and demand informalized sub‐contracted gig work to undocumented migrants, and how a platform company enables informal work practices through permissive HR practices and technology. In doing so, this article shows h…
The Ethical Character of Russia's Offensive Cyber Operations in Ukraine
Cyber weapons have the potential to achieve strategic military aims in a manner that reduces physical harm, but they can also be used to enhance and expand the lethality of conventional weapons and tactics. When designed to collect private data, cyber weapons can facilitate assassination, kidnapping, torture, and other severe violations of human rights and international law. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not the first time that cyber weapons ha…
How does informalisation encourage or inhibit collective action by migrant workers? A comparative analysis of logistics warehouses in Italy and hand car washes in Britain
Cross‐national research is key to understanding the global presence of informal and non‐compliant workplaces. This article comparatively examines how informalisation encourages or inhibits collective action led by migrant workers employed in Italian logistics warehouses (LWs) and the British hand car washes (HCWs). The term collective action derives from mobilisation theory and refers to joint resistance initiatives developed by workers and labou…
Locating Hedge Funds in a Subjective and Political Economy Context
This chapter pursues a holistic inquiry into hedge fund business models. First, the authors ask what sort of political economy context has enabled the flourishing and astonishing expansion of hedge funds. Second, they ask how the individual bodies and collective bodies, such as hedge fund traders and hedge fund firms, form as particular economic subjects within this political economy context. How, in other words, might one think of the socioecono…
Abandoned spaces and technology displacement by labour
The diffusion of hand car washes is in contradistinction to vogue arguments about automation and new technology. However, what is absent from the literature is a focus on abandoned spaces as a capitalist commodity and the displacement of technology by labour which is particularly associated with the emergence of low‐cost informalised areas of work that occupy and self‐regulate these spaces. The contribution of this research to new knowledge is a …
Crisis in the laws of war? Beyond compliance and effectiveness
How can we tell what state the laws of war are in today, and whether they face exceptional pressures? Standard accounts of the condition of this body of law focus on problems of compliance and effectiveness. In particular, there is a dominant international legal diagnosis that most non-compliance is accounted for by the prevalence of non-state belligerents in irregular or asymmetric conflicts. We propose that any such diagnosis is partial at best…
The Importance of the Koala in Aboriginal Society in Nineteenth-century Victoria (Australia)
The principal aim of this study was to provide a close examination of nineteenth-century archival records that relate to Victorian Aboriginal people’s associations with koalas, in order to gain a greater understanding of the utilitarian and symbolic significance of koalas for Aboriginal communities, as recorded by colonists during the early period of colonization. The etymology of “koala” is discussed, before an examination is made of the animal’…
Water Resources in Arid Areas
Taking 'justness' seriously in just war
The laws of war are under mounting pressure and yet recent developments in the ethics of war have encouraged a growing disjunction between ethics and the law. Is this a problem, and does just war have a responsibility to address it? How then should we think about the relationship between ethics and law in war? Focusing on the debates between orthodox and revisionist theorists about principles of liability and immunity in war, I argue that these a…
Using noble gas ratios to determine the origin of ground ice
Argon, krypton and xenon have different solubilities in water, meaning their ratios in water are different from those in atmospheric air. This characteristic is used in a novel method to distinguish between ice bodies which originate from the compaction of snow (i.e. buried snow banks, glacial ice) vs. ice which forms from the freezing of groundwater (i.e. pingo ice). Ice which forms from the compaction of snow has gas ratios similar to atmospher…
Classical Theories of International Relations
A Qualitative Analytic Case Study of Subliminal Gender Bias in Japanese ELTs
Bias is communicated via the “hidden curriculum”—the vehicle for the unspoken academic, social, and cultural messages that are communicated to students while they are in school. Revealing the hidden curriculum in English language textbooks (ELTs) entails an analytical and holistic approach to the content of the text and images appearing in school textbooks by connecting corresponding examples of subliminal bias which may be many pages apart. This…
Winda Lingo Parugoneit 1 or Why Set the Bush [On] Fire? Fire and Victorian Aboriginal People on the Colonial Frontier
This insight is essential to developing cross-culturally appropriate land and fire management strategies in the present and into the future. This article demonstrates the need for further research into historical accounts of Aboriginal burning in Victoria
Work, employment and society sans frontières
Work, employment and society (WES ) was launched in 1987 in a period in which a number of features of British society were changing rapidly. The vibrancy and the optimism of the 1960s looked increasingly remote and sociology and the study of work reflected the more straitened times that came with the social transformations wrought by Thatcherism. The early 1980s had seen savage deflation, a consequent sharp contraction of the manufacturing indust…
War, Technology, and Conceptual Change
There are a number of contemporary developments in relation to military technology that have sparked rich debates. However, the argument in this chapter is that these developments are not simply and straightforwardly about how technological innovation generates new ethical problems. Instead, these concerns have been initially mediated through their impact on the concept of war itself: how does technological change affect our thinking about the ve…
Waging War
What exactly is it we wage when we wage war? This is the crucial question addressed in this new edition of a classic text. The range of possible answers to it has already framed much of the ethical discourse that can be conducted about war, as well as about other uses of force. Only when some of those fundamental issues have been clarified can we then safely foray into the dense ethical thicket that surrounds this topic. Otherwise, much of what p…
A Peep at the Blacks
This book is concerned with the history of tourism at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station at Healesville, northeast of Melbourne, which functioned as a government reserve from 1863 until its closure in 1924. At Coranderrk, Aboriginal mission interests and tourism intersected and the station became a ‘showplace’ of Aboriginal culture and the government policy of assimilation. The Aboriginal residents responded to tourist interest by staging cultural…
Challenging students' perceptions of sustainability using an Earth Systems Science approach
This study investigated whether an Earth Systems-based course focused on raising postgraduate students' awareness of sustainability, from a systems-thinking perspective, would produce graduates with commitment to drive the sustainability agenda forward with a broad perspective. It investigated students' pre and post-course perceptions of sustainability using a pre- and post-course survey, and by analysing the students' reflective journal entries.…
Healthcare Assistants
This paper examines the labour process of Healthcare Assistants ( HCAs ) at a National Health Service ( NHS ) hospital trust ( TUH ) in the context of the NHS modernisation agenda. It determines whether application of the modernisation agenda is formalised at TUH and considers how HCAs are affected. The paper is based upon 60 interviews with HCAs , structured questionnaires completed by all interview respondents, observation of HCAs and interview…
The Historic Importance of the Dingo in Aboriginal Society in Victoria (Australia)
Dingoes feature prominently in Australian Aboriginal Creation stories and are also widely regarded as having an intricate relationship with Aboriginal people. A large volume of anthropological work on the complex relationship between Australian Aboriginals and dingoes has determined a considerable uniformity in the human–dingo relationship across northern Australia. Whilst there are many parallels between northern and southern Aboriginal Australi…
Formative Assessment
Special Responsibilities
The language of special responsibilities is ubiquitous in world politics, with policymakers and commentators alike speaking and acting as though particular states have, or ought to have, unique obligations in managing global problems. Surprisingly, scholars are yet to provide any in-depth analysis of this fascinating aspect of world politics. This path-breaking study examines the nature of special responsibilities, the complex politics that surro…
Liberal internationalism, the practice of special responsibilities and evolving politics of the security council
Legitimacy in International Society
Policy makers and publics alike regularly debate the legitimacy of international events, such as the war on terror, or war in Iraq. But what exactly does legitimacy mean in an international setting? This work provides a grounded analysis of this critical issue in contemporary society
Legitimacy in a global order
This is a study of legitimacy in a global order, not legitimacy of the global order. It explores the challenging issue of what legitimacy might mean within such a context, and on what basis that order could develop its own principles of legitimacy. Its purpose is to garner further insights into the nature of contemporary global governance, and resistance to it, inasmuch as the latter is widely deemed to be symptomatic of the legitimacy crisis at …
Democracy in International Society
The Post-Cold War Order
Clark, Ian, The Post-Cold War Order; The Spoils of Peace (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp.xi+276
Owners and managers
The 'disconnected capitalism' thesis constructs an argument that structural tendencies within capital markets disrupt established patterns of relations between employers and labour. This ar ticle develops this argument by conceptualizing how the 'private-equity business model' (PEBM) further diffuses these connections and trends.This diffusion is so extensive that the interests of owners are now paramount in all types of business system to the re…
Work, employment and society sans frontières
Work, employment and society (WES ) was launched in 1987 in a period in which a number of features of British society were changing rapidly. The vibrancy and the optimism of the 1960s looked increasingly remote and sociology and the study of work reflected the more straitened times that came with the social transformations wrought by Thatcherism. The early 1980s had seen savage deflation, a consequent sharp contraction of the manufacturing indust…
Towards an English School Theory of Hegemony
English School (ES) writers have never developed a systematic account of hegemony, and most set out with assumptions that are `antihegemonial'. The writings of Hedley Bull, in particular, appeared to reject any notion of a legitimate hegemony. However, a social theory of hegemony that emphasizes its consensual nature does appear consistent with other ES positions, particularly on the role of the Great Powers. This article excavates an ES theory o…
Setting the Revisionist Agenda for International Legitimacy
Reform and Resistance in the International Order
Crisis in the laws of war? Beyond compliance and effectiveness
How can we tell what state the laws of war are in today, and whether they face exceptional pressures? Standard accounts of the condition of this body of law focus on problems of compliance and effectiveness. In particular, there is a dominant international legal diagnosis that most non-compliance is accounted for by the prevalence of non-state belligerents in irregular or asymmetric conflicts. We propose that any such diagnosis is partial at best…
Beyond the Great Divide
This article assesses the general significance for International Relations theory of the literature on globalization. It argues that globalization is a pervasively unsettling process which needs to be explained not only as an issue in its own right but for the insight which it affords into cognate areas of theory. In short, it advances an analytical model whereby globalization itself can be understood and utilizes this as a theoretical scheme tha…
Challenging students' perceptions of sustainability using an Earth Systems Science approach
This study investigated whether an Earth Systems-based course focused on raising postgraduate students' awareness of sustainability, from a systems-thinking perspective, would produce graduates with commitment to drive the sustainability agenda forward with a broad perspective. It investigated students' pre and post-course perceptions of sustainability using a pre- and post-course survey, and by analysing the students' reflective journal entries.…
The Historic Importance of the Dingo in Aboriginal Society in Victoria (Australia)
Dingoes feature prominently in Australian Aboriginal Creation stories and are also widely regarded as having an intricate relationship with Aboriginal people. A large volume of anthropological work on the complex relationship between Australian Aboriginals and dingoes has determined a considerable uniformity in the human–dingo relationship across northern Australia. Whilst there are many parallels between northern and southern Aboriginal Australi…
Liberal internationalism, the practice of special responsibilities and evolving politics of the security council
Bringing hegemony back in
Hegemony suffers from a bad press. It is currently used to refer simply to United States primacy. Thus presented, the US is considered to have been hegemonic since 1945, or at least since 1990. Instead, hegemony is presented here as a legitimate institution of international society in which special rights and responsibilities are conferred on the hegemon. No such hegemony exists at present. However, given today's constellation of power, a circums…
Britain, the united states and the control of nuclear weapons
Private equity and the flight of the phoenix four-- the collapse of MG Rover in the UK
This paper explores the nature of the co-called ‘private equity business model' (PEBM) and assesses its shortcomings, using the illustrative example of the role of private equity in structuring the finance and subsequent collapse of MG Rover, as the automotive industry has been a significant destination for private equity financing. The paper outlines the nature of the PEBM. It then details how the PEBM extracts value, before stressing how this c…
World Order Reform and Utopian Thought
During the 1950's and 1960's, Utopian thought, like ideology generally, was deemed to be at an end. Typically, Judith Shklar pronounced that “the urge to construct grand designs for the political future of mankind is gone,” basing her judgment on the ground that “the last vestiges of Utopian faith required for such an enterprise have vanished.” Even more recently, and correspondingly less perspicaciously, Paul Seabury expressed the view that “a U…
Winda Lingo Parugoneit 1 or Why Set the Bush [On] Fire? Fire and Victorian Aboriginal People on the Colonial Frontier
This insight is essential to developing cross-culturally appropriate land and fire management strategies in the present and into the future. This article demonstrates the need for further research into historical accounts of Aboriginal burning in Victoria
How Hierarchical Can International Society Be
Waltzian analysis proceeds from the distinction between the ordering principles of anarchy and hierarchy. This raises the large question whether the introduction of pockets of 'authority' would represent a fundamental challenge to an anarchical international society. The article investigates this theme by exploring a putative institution of hegemony. It begins with a distinction between primacy and hegemony, and develops the idea of hegemony as a…
Using local knowledge to improve understanding of groundwater supplies in parts of arid South Australia
Healthcare Assistants
This paper examines the labour process of Healthcare Assistants ( HCAs ) at a National Health Service ( NHS ) hospital trust ( TUH ) in the context of the NHS modernisation agenda. It determines whether application of the modernisation agenda is formalised at TUH and considers how HCAs are affected. The paper is based upon 60 interviews with HCAs , structured questionnaires completed by all interview respondents, observation of HCAs and interview…
Another ‘double movement’
This collection of essays grapples, historically, with the complex issues involved in understanding system transformation. Often these transformations have taken the form of a shift along the spectrum of independence-centralization, and it is within the framework of such declining or emerging imperial systems that the degree of change has tended to be measured. The task of this contribution is to locate the specific case of the end of the Cold Wa…
Institutional Stability in Management Practice and Industrial Relations
The endurance of institutional stability in British industrial relations and management practice during the initial post-war years rested on two factors; the international viability of the economy and the respite that victory in World War Two afforded to embedded patterns of regulation in both areas. This contribution addresses these issues through the vehicle of the AACP, specifically its British section. The AACP was created to examine the issu…
Abandoned spaces and technology displacement by labour
The diffusion of hand car washes is in contradistinction to vogue arguments about automation and new technology. However, what is absent from the literature is a focus on abandoned spaces as a capitalist commodity and the displacement of technology by labour which is particularly associated with the emergence of low‐cost informalised areas of work that occupy and self‐regulate these spaces. The contribution of this research to new knowledge is a …
Collective security in Asia
The USSR and the Tashkent Conference
World Order Reform and Utopian Thought
During the 1950's and 1960's, Utopian thought, like ideology generally, was deemed to be at an end. Typically, Judith Shklar pronounced that “the urge to construct grand designs for the political future of mankind is gone,” basing her judgment on the ground that “the last vestiges of Utopian faith required for such an enterprise have vanished.” Even more recently, and correspondingly less perspicaciously, Paul Seabury expressed the view that “a U…
The Politics of Intrusion. The Super Powers and the Indian Ocean
Reform and Resistance in the International Order
The Indian Ocean in Global Politics
Psychiatric emergency
The concepts and organizing principles underlying facilities for assessing psychiatric emergencies are discussed. It is argued that the analogy with medical/surgical emergencies is, in many cases, inappropriate. Where socially unacceptable behaviour is involved in generating a psychiatric referral, doctors working in hospital clinics are in a poor position to make informed assessments
Limited Nuclear War
Indefensible Weapons
The authors contend that the political and psychological power of nuclear weapons make them even more dangerous than their destructive power alone. They explore the political and psychological dependencies on nuclear weapons, which they call the disease of nuclearism. With this medical approach, they examine both the disease and the symptoms, which can be fatal. Section I, by Lifton, deals with the psychological problem of imagining the reality o…
Nuclear Fallacies
Waging War
A study of the relationship between the concept of war and notions about its proper conduct, and of the need for a philosophical understanding of the nature of war.
Making sense of sovereignty
International relations scholars have long enjoyed an uncomfortable relationship with the concept of sovereignty. It has appeared as conceptually forbidding territory, journeys into which are likely to yield only a formalistic or unduly legalistic understanding of international relations, too close to the dignified trappings, and too remote from the efficient workings, of the international system
The Hierarchy of States
The hierarchy of states presents Ian Clark's Reform and resistance in the international order, a well-established text on international relations first published in 1980, in a completely revised form. Combining a detailed examination of theory with a full account of historical developments, Dr Clark analyses the nature of international order - the hierarchical state system - and its potential for reform. The theory of international order is explo…
The military aftermath of the cold war
Britain, the ‘special relationship’ and European security cooperation
(1990). Britain, the ‘special relationship’ and European security cooperation. Cambridge Review of International Affairs: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-9
Britain, the united states and the control of nuclear weapons
Ethics in human resource management
History and strategy
Journal Article History and strategy Get access History and strategy. By Marc Trachtenberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1991. 292pp. Index. $44.50; ISBN 0 691 978881 5. Pb.: $14.95; ISBN 0 691 02343 3. Ian Clark Ian Clark 1Selwyn College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 2, April 1992, Pages 336–337, https://doi.org/10.2307/2623244 Published: …
Full constituency results in the 1992 general election in Scotland
The Effect Of Parliamentary Lobbying On Scottish MPs In The Age Of Consent Debate
On 21 February 1994 the House of Commons voted to reduce the age of consent for gay men from 21 to 18 years, having earlier rejected a proposal which would have equalised the age of consent for all at 16 years. These votes followed months of intensive lobbying of Members of Parliament by lesbian and gay rights groups, much of which was widely praised by press commentators and politicians for its professionalism and efficiency. Utilising returns f…
Traditions of Thought and Classical Theories of International Relations
The division of thought about international relations into various, and often conflicting, traditions is virtually the hallmark of the classical approach to the subject. Drawing its strength from the self-styled timeless dialogue about the nature of international society, this conception of international theory has made its distinctive contribution by presenting sundry visions of international life around which prominent historical writers have c…
Classical Theories of International Relations
History and the idea of progress
Journal Article History and the idea of progress Get access History and the idea of progress. Edited by Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinbergerand M. Richard Zinman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1995. 271pp. Index. £29.50; ISBN 0 8014 2986 2. Pb.: £11.95; ISBN 0 8014 8182 1. Ian Clark Ian Clark 1Selwyn College, University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Is…
The Use of Direct Deductions from Benefits in Scottish Courts
Since October 1992 Scottish courts have been able to make orders for unpaid fines to be recovered by deductions at source from defaulters' income support payments. This paper summarises the findings of research undertaken in an attempt to evaluate the new system and explain the relatively low usage of direct deductions in Scotland in the first year they were available. Perhaps the most significant finding was that at least 84 out of 230 sentencer…
Beyond the Great Divide
This article assesses the general significance for International Relations theory of the literature on globalization. It argues that globalization is a pervasively unsettling process which needs to be explained not only as an issue in its own right but for the insight which it affords into cognate areas of theory. In short, it advances an analytical model whereby globalization itself can be understood and utilizes this as a theoretical scheme tha…
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