Molly Cochran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3776007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Molly Cochran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Molly |
| FAMILY NAME | Cochran |
| SIGNATURE | COCHRAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2771-966X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Jason Ralph’s on global learning
One of four Reviews of the Ralph book
Erased: A history of international thought without men
Women's international thought: Towards a new canon
Journal Article Women's international thought: towards a new canon Get access Women's international thought: towards a new canon. Edited by Patricia Owens, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberly Hutchings and Sarah C Dunstan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. 776pp. £84.99. Isbn978 1 31651 824 3. Available as e-book. Molly Cochran Molly Cochran Oxford Brookes University, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Activism and International Thought: The Women's International League of Peace and Freedom and the Problem of Statelessness in the Interwar Period
This article examines the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) as an important site of women's international theorizing on the normative problem of statelessness in the League of Nations era. The problem of statelessness covered several issues connected with the loss of nationality, a new condition of human vulnerability associated with the dissolution of four empires after World War I. It opened up a series of questions abo…
The Oxford handbook of feminist philosophy
Pragmatism in IR: The Prospects for Substantive Theorizing
The contributors to this forum all draw significantly from pragmatist philosophy and social theory for making sense of international politics. Collectively, we affirm the value of pragmatist work beyond metatheory and methodology, both politically and epistemically—that is, as both a moral project and an explanatory one. Indeed, we are especially united on the notion that pragmatism “bridges” the divide between these things, and several contribut…
Pragmatism and International Relations: A Story of Closure and Opening
The discipline of International Relations [IR] is experiencing a pragmatist turn. Here I will argue that this is a critical moment to take stock and reflect on where it is heading. First, in order to understand what pragmatism might bring to IR as a social science today, it is important to examine the history of IR and explain why pragmatism appears not to have registered in its past. Why have the contributions of Wiliam James and, especially, Jo…
Human Rights and Civil Rights: The Advocacy and Activism of African-American Women Writers
Royster and Cochran use the words of African American women writers to enrich our view of intersections between American civil rights discourses and the discourses of human rights as a global concept. They focus on both individual and collective activities of the women and contextualize this activism within the larger framework of the rise of individual human rights language in twentieth century international relations. Notes 1Sam Occom (1723–179…
The Ethics of the English School
The English School understands ethics to be central to the study of world politics. However, the English School never aimed to evaluate the moral appropriateness of the choices made by statesmen. The evaluative conclusions drawn by the English School were few. For much of its history, any judgments made by these writers were limited to what they believed necessary to responsible international society management. Today, English School scholars are…
Charting the Ethics of the English School: What “Good” is There in a Middle-Ground Ethics
This article aims to advance our understanding of the development of English School thinking on international ethics by outlining three phases of ethical inquiry within the British Committee. The article argues that, throughout the life of the Committee, its outlook was conditioned by a pervading moral skepticism, which was reflected in the School's commitment to a “middle-ground ethics”; however, at various times the Committee members’ views cha…
Deweyan Pragmatism and Post-Positivist Social Science in IR
The appeal of positivism within International Relations (IR) hinges on the belief that it represents the application of science to the study of world politics. This article presents Deweyan pragmatism as an alternative, and better, way of employing scientific method in IR. John Dewey's unique formulations of key scientific concepts like `objectivity', `explanation' and `experimentation' led him to an understanding of social enquiry that retains m…
Books in Review
A Democratic Critique of Cosmopolitan Democracy: Pragmatism from the Bottom-up
This article begins by critically evaluating recent work on cosmopolitan democracy by David Held. I argue that where cosmopolitan democrats should now focus their energies is in filling a significant gap that Held's inquiries have left open — an exploration of what `bottom-up' processes bring to cosmopolitan democracy, more specifically the work of problem-solving, publicity and advocacy that takes place in sites that are referred to as internati…
Normative Theory in International Relations: A Pragmatic Approach
Normative theory in international relations, as it is discussed at present in the framework of the cosmopolitan/communitarian debate, is in a condition of stasis. Cosmopolitan and communitarian positions are generally assumed to be irreconcilable, with no means available for reaching conclusions on ethical questions in world politics. This book pursues three lines of inquiry. First, it aims to examine the nature and the extent of the impasse with…
Talking with feminists about what we can know in IR
International relations may be arriving at a time when it can recognise the value of taking the feminist contribution to the discipline seriously and on its own terms. This essay begins by outlining the nature of the ‘epistemological impasse’ that has tended to produce an ‘external character’ to the criteria used by feminists when evaluating the mainstream of IR and the criteria the mainstream has used to judge feminists. Tensions within the main…
Gendering Jones: Feminisms, IRs, masculinities
IntroductionIn 'Does "Gender" Make the World Go Round? Feminist Critiques of International Relations',Review of International Studies, 22:4 (1996), pp. 405-29. Adam Jones claims that 'the most important ... contribution of feminist critiques has been to add a gender dimension to [IR]', but that their success will remain 'mixed' until their 'frameworks are expanded and to some extent reworked'. While Jones's piece is excpetionally wide-ranging, ou…
The Liberal Ironist, Ethics and International Relations Theory
Postmodernism, ethics and international political theory
A group of writers have taken up Nietzsche's hammer against the constructions of contemporary international theory. Postmodern approaches problematize the dominant understanding of international relations as a world of sovereign states which demarcate inside from outside, order from anarchy, identity from difference. More generally, they challenge the notion of sovereignty as an ahistorical, universal, transcendent concept, be it applied to the s…
Normative Theory in International Relations: A Pragmatic Approach
Normative theory in international relations, as it is discussed at present in the framework of the cosmopolitan/communitarian debate, is in a condition of stasis. Cosmopolitan and communitarian positions are generally assumed to be irreconcilable, with no means available for reaching conclusions on ethical questions in world politics. This book pursues three lines of inquiry. First, it aims to examine the nature and the extent of the impasse with…
Deweyan Pragmatism and Post-Positivist Social Science in IR
The appeal of positivism within International Relations (IR) hinges on the belief that it represents the application of science to the study of world politics. This article presents Deweyan pragmatism as an alternative, and better, way of employing scientific method in IR. John Dewey's unique formulations of key scientific concepts like `objectivity', `explanation' and `experimentation' led him to an understanding of social enquiry that retains m…
Charting the Ethics of the English School: What “Good” is There in a Middle-Ground Ethics
This article aims to advance our understanding of the development of English School thinking on international ethics by outlining three phases of ethical inquiry within the British Committee. The article argues that, throughout the life of the Committee, its outlook was conditioned by a pervading moral skepticism, which was reflected in the School's commitment to a “middle-ground ethics”; however, at various times the Committee members’ views cha…
A Democratic Critique of Cosmopolitan Democracy: Pragmatism from the Bottom-up
This article begins by critically evaluating recent work on cosmopolitan democracy by David Held. I argue that where cosmopolitan democrats should now focus their energies is in filling a significant gap that Held's inquiries have left open — an exploration of what `bottom-up' processes bring to cosmopolitan democracy, more specifically the work of problem-solving, publicity and advocacy that takes place in sites that are referred to as internati…
Gendering Jones: Feminisms, IRs, masculinities
IntroductionIn 'Does "Gender" Make the World Go Round? Feminist Critiques of International Relations',Review of International Studies, 22:4 (1996), pp. 405-29. Adam Jones claims that 'the most important ... contribution of feminist critiques has been to add a gender dimension to [IR]', but that their success will remain 'mixed' until their 'frameworks are expanded and to some extent reworked'. While Jones's piece is excpetionally wide-ranging, ou…
The Liberal Ironist, Ethics and International Relations Theory
The Oxford handbook of feminist philosophy
Postmodernism, ethics and international political theory
A group of writers have taken up Nietzsche's hammer against the constructions of contemporary international theory. Postmodern approaches problematize the dominant understanding of international relations as a world of sovereign states which demarcate inside from outside, order from anarchy, identity from difference. More generally, they challenge the notion of sovereignty as an ahistorical, universal, transcendent concept, be it applied to the s…
Women's international thought: Towards a new canon
Journal Article Women's international thought: towards a new canon Get access Women's international thought: towards a new canon. Edited by Patricia Owens, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberly Hutchings and Sarah C Dunstan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. 776pp. £84.99. Isbn978 1 31651 824 3. Available as e-book. Molly Cochran Molly Cochran Oxford Brookes University, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Activism and International Thought: The Women's International League of Peace and Freedom and the Problem of Statelessness in the Interwar Period
This article examines the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) as an important site of women's international theorizing on the normative problem of statelessness in the League of Nations era. The problem of statelessness covered several issues connected with the loss of nationality, a new condition of human vulnerability associated with the dissolution of four empires after World War I. It opened up a series of questions abo…
Pragmatism and International Relations: A Story of Closure and Opening
The discipline of International Relations [IR] is experiencing a pragmatist turn. Here I will argue that this is a critical moment to take stock and reflect on where it is heading. First, in order to understand what pragmatism might bring to IR as a social science today, it is important to examine the history of IR and explain why pragmatism appears not to have registered in its past. Why have the contributions of Wiliam James and, especially, Jo…
Talking with feminists about what we can know in IR
International relations may be arriving at a time when it can recognise the value of taking the feminist contribution to the discipline seriously and on its own terms. This essay begins by outlining the nature of the ‘epistemological impasse’ that has tended to produce an ‘external character’ to the criteria used by feminists when evaluating the mainstream of IR and the criteria the mainstream has used to judge feminists. Tensions within the main…
Erased: A history of international thought without men
Pragmatism in IR: The Prospects for Substantive Theorizing
The contributors to this forum all draw significantly from pragmatist philosophy and social theory for making sense of international politics. Collectively, we affirm the value of pragmatist work beyond metatheory and methodology, both politically and epistemically—that is, as both a moral project and an explanatory one. Indeed, we are especially united on the notion that pragmatism “bridges” the divide between these things, and several contribut…
Postmodernism, ethics and international political theory
A group of writers have taken up Nietzsche's hammer against the constructions of contemporary international theory. Postmodern approaches problematize the dominant understanding of international relations as a world of sovereign states which demarcate inside from outside, order from anarchy, identity from difference. More generally, they challenge the notion of sovereignty as an ahistorical, universal, transcendent concept, be it applied to the s…
The Liberal Ironist, Ethics and International Relations Theory
Gendering Jones: Feminisms, IRs, masculinities
IntroductionIn 'Does "Gender" Make the World Go Round? Feminist Critiques of International Relations',Review of International Studies, 22:4 (1996), pp. 405-29. Adam Jones claims that 'the most important ... contribution of feminist critiques has been to add a gender dimension to [IR]', but that their success will remain 'mixed' until their 'frameworks are expanded and to some extent reworked'. While Jones's piece is excpetionally wide-ranging, ou…
Normative Theory in International Relations: A Pragmatic Approach
Normative theory in international relations, as it is discussed at present in the framework of the cosmopolitan/communitarian debate, is in a condition of stasis. Cosmopolitan and communitarian positions are generally assumed to be irreconcilable, with no means available for reaching conclusions on ethical questions in world politics. This book pursues three lines of inquiry. First, it aims to examine the nature and the extent of the impasse with…
Talking with feminists about what we can know in IR
International relations may be arriving at a time when it can recognise the value of taking the feminist contribution to the discipline seriously and on its own terms. This essay begins by outlining the nature of the ‘epistemological impasse’ that has tended to produce an ‘external character’ to the criteria used by feminists when evaluating the mainstream of IR and the criteria the mainstream has used to judge feminists. Tensions within the main…
Deweyan Pragmatism and Post-Positivist Social Science in IR
The appeal of positivism within International Relations (IR) hinges on the belief that it represents the application of science to the study of world politics. This article presents Deweyan pragmatism as an alternative, and better, way of employing scientific method in IR. John Dewey's unique formulations of key scientific concepts like `objectivity', `explanation' and `experimentation' led him to an understanding of social enquiry that retains m…
Books in Review
A Democratic Critique of Cosmopolitan Democracy: Pragmatism from the Bottom-up
This article begins by critically evaluating recent work on cosmopolitan democracy by David Held. I argue that where cosmopolitan democrats should now focus their energies is in filling a significant gap that Held's inquiries have left open — an exploration of what `bottom-up' processes bring to cosmopolitan democracy, more specifically the work of problem-solving, publicity and advocacy that takes place in sites that are referred to as internati…
The Ethics of the English School
The English School understands ethics to be central to the study of world politics. However, the English School never aimed to evaluate the moral appropriateness of the choices made by statesmen. The evaluative conclusions drawn by the English School were few. For much of its history, any judgments made by these writers were limited to what they believed necessary to responsible international society management. Today, English School scholars are…
Charting the Ethics of the English School: What “Good” is There in a Middle-Ground Ethics
This article aims to advance our understanding of the development of English School thinking on international ethics by outlining three phases of ethical inquiry within the British Committee. The article argues that, throughout the life of the Committee, its outlook was conditioned by a pervading moral skepticism, which was reflected in the School's commitment to a “middle-ground ethics”; however, at various times the Committee members’ views cha…
Human Rights and Civil Rights: The Advocacy and Activism of African-American Women Writers
Royster and Cochran use the words of African American women writers to enrich our view of intersections between American civil rights discourses and the discourses of human rights as a global concept. They focus on both individual and collective activities of the women and contextualize this activism within the larger framework of the rise of individual human rights language in twentieth century international relations. Notes 1Sam Occom (1723–179…
Pragmatism and International Relations: A Story of Closure and Opening
The discipline of International Relations [IR] is experiencing a pragmatist turn. Here I will argue that this is a critical moment to take stock and reflect on where it is heading. First, in order to understand what pragmatism might bring to IR as a social science today, it is important to examine the history of IR and explain why pragmatism appears not to have registered in its past. Why have the contributions of Wiliam James and, especially, Jo…
Pragmatism in IR: The Prospects for Substantive Theorizing
The contributors to this forum all draw significantly from pragmatist philosophy and social theory for making sense of international politics. Collectively, we affirm the value of pragmatist work beyond metatheory and methodology, both politically and epistemically—that is, as both a moral project and an explanatory one. Indeed, we are especially united on the notion that pragmatism “bridges” the divide between these things, and several contribut…
The Oxford handbook of feminist philosophy
Women's international thought: Towards a new canon
Journal Article Women's international thought: towards a new canon Get access Women's international thought: towards a new canon. Edited by Patricia Owens, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberly Hutchings and Sarah C Dunstan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. 776pp. £84.99. Isbn978 1 31651 824 3. Available as e-book. Molly Cochran Molly Cochran Oxford Brookes University, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Activism and International Thought: The Women's International League of Peace and Freedom and the Problem of Statelessness in the Interwar Period
This article examines the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) as an important site of women's international theorizing on the normative problem of statelessness in the League of Nations era. The problem of statelessness covered several issues connected with the loss of nationality, a new condition of human vulnerability associated with the dissolution of four empires after World War I. It opened up a series of questions abo…
Erased: A history of international thought without men
Jason Ralph’s on global learning
One of four Reviews of the Ralph book
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