Knud Erik Jørgensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3777705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Knud Erik Jørgensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Knud Erik |
| FAMILY NAME | Jørgensen |
| SIGNATURE | JØRGENSEN K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0868-5940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 216 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The European Union and the crisis of multilateralism in an era of uncertainty and power politics
The European Union (EU) has a rich policy portfolio towards and within many formal international governmental organisations (FIGOs). For decades, the EU has officially promoted ‘effective multilateralism’. However, the main argument of the article is that the EU’s relations with many members of FIGOs are bound to be conflictual. We unpack the argument in three steps. First, we address a fundamental issue, specifically the general characteristics …
Realist theories in search of realists
The realist theoretical tradition has never enjoyed a strong position in Europe. During recent decades, although it is commonly claimed otherwise, it even seems to have lost its limited traction and most of its relatively few representatives. The aim of the article is to analyse this evolution, highlight how realist theorists have contributed limited conceptual or theoretical innovation, been unable to adjust their research agenda to current anal…
Loyal at once? The EU’s global health awakening in the Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic marks a shift in the EU’s approach to the multilateral system. Just at a time when the EU aspires to avoid being crushed between the US and China, the World Health Organization (WHO) became one of the new battlegrounds in world politics. This norm-setting international organization for health was already under pressure due to a plethora of other organizations trespassing its mandate, reduced core funding and weak governance,…
The Eeas navigating foreign policy paradigms
Addressing the issue of EU foreign policy, this article analyses one of the European institutions, the EEAS, and examines how the EEAS navigates in a European landscape characterised by a handful of main foreign policy paradigms. In particular, we ask how the EEAS has adjusted its foreign policies in the light of competing paradigms. In the first section, we explicate the key concepts including policy paradigms, worldviews and public philosophy. …
International Relations Theory
Generational Curses in the Pentateuch. An American and Maasai Intercultural Analysis, written by Beth E. Elness-Hanson
Stay in the City. How Christian Faith Is Flourishing in an Urban World, written by Mark R. Gornik & Maria Liu Wong
Unusual times call for unusual initiatives
Reflective Approaches to European Governance
Theorizing Foreign Policy in a Globalized World
Constructing International Relations
PART I: RECONSIDERING CONSTRUCTIVISM 1. Constructivism as an Approach to Interdisciplinary Study, Friedrich V. Kratochwil 2. Four Levels and a Discipline, Knud Erik Jorgensen 3. Constructivisms in International Relations: Wendt, Onuf and Kratochwil, Maja Zehfuss 4. Feminism: Constructivism's Other Pedigree, Birgit Locher and Elisabeth Prugl 5. What Systems Theory Can Tell Us about Constructivism, Mathias Albert PART II: PRACTICING CONSTRUCTIVISM …
Things are different in Pago Pago’
This is a reply to:Ahrens, Bettina and Thomas Diez. 2015. “Solidarisation and its limits: the EU and the transformation of international society.” Global Discourse 5 (3): 341–355. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1080/23269995.2015.1053189
On cleavages, port and dialogues
In this rejoinder we appreciate Ben Rosamond and Alex Warleigh-Lack’s addition to our typology of dialogues, yet restate our main reasons to remain sceptical about the outcome of a dialogue between European Studies and New Regionalism
Discursively (de-)constructing European foreign policy
This article is about European foreign policy, specifically an examination of ways in which discourse analysis and foreign policy analysis can be brought together. The first aim of this article is to explicate the explanandum in some detail. Before we know what we are looking for, it gives limited meaning to consider procedures for methodological procedures. Once the explanandum has been identified, the article examines theoretical approaches and…
Introduction
In some contrast to the traditional and ongoing normative discussions about the desirability of a world state, new and more explicitly geo-historical questions about world political integration are being posed, especially (i) whether elements of world statehood are in existence already, (ii) whether a world state is in some sense inevitable, and (iii) whether, and under what conditions, a world state would be sustainable? For instance, the existi…
Four dialogues and the funeral of a beautiful relationship
This article engages in the debate on (the study of) regionalism in providing an overview of the nexus between European Studies (ES) and (New) Regionalism (NR). While the immediate purpose for doing so is to set the stage for the future debate on regional dynamics, this exploration can also be perceived as a case study into (the plurality of forms of) inter/intra-disciplinary dialogue demonstrating the necessity of engaging in ‘dialogues about di…
Performance of the EU in International Institutions
The Eeas and the challenges of multilateral diplomacy
El artículo se centra en el análisis de los desafíos más importantes que la UE ha de afrontar en el ámbito de la diplomacia multilateral, tras las importantes innovaciones institucionales contenidas en el Tratado de Lisboa, y específicamente tras la creación del SEAE. De manera más precisa, se identifican y discuten críticamente diez grandes desafíos en este terreno, así como su posible relación con las dimensiones instrumentales del nuevo SEAE, …
Introduction
This article introduces the analytical framework of the collection on the performance of the EU in international institutions and summarizes its main findings. We focus on the role of the EU in the decision-making within international organizations and regimes as a major locus of global governance. We suggest unpacking the concept of EU performance into four core elements: effectiveness (goal achievement);relevance (of the EU for its priority sta…
International Relations Theory
The European Union in Multilateral Diplomacy
This article examines the role of the European Union in multilateral diplomacy. By means of synthesizing and summarizing research on seven selected policy fields, the article aims to make more general claims than single policy or single case studies allow. The analysis focuses on five analytical dimensions: governance (that is, how the EU handles multilateral diplomacy in different international institutions); the role of EU domestic politics; ne…
Constituting Communities
From a cross-disciplinary and conceptual perspective this book discusses the political solutions of constitutional patriotism, republicanism and liberal nationalism to cultural conflict. It places the
From the Incoming Editor
International Relations Theory
Conceptual analytical avenues known and unknown
Concepts play a key role for our understanding of the world, shaping our ways of seeing the world. In an eminent biography, Drinkwater (2005) describes how the British diplomat and scholar Harold N
The social construction of Europe
The article introduces constructivist approaches to research on European integration. While stressing middle-range theory, it recognizes that meta-theoretical choices also matter for theorizing and analysing European integration. Tracing developments in the philosophy of science and in international relations theory, social constructivism is introduced as a way of establishing the 'middle ground' in juxtaposition to rationalism and reflectivism -…
Introduction
This article introduces the analytical framework of the collection on the performance of the EU in international institutions and summarizes its main findings. We focus on the role of the EU in the decision-making within international organizations and regimes as a major locus of global governance. We suggest unpacking the concept of EU performance into four core elements: effectiveness (goal achievement);relevance (of the EU for its priority sta…
Theorizing EU treaty reform
This article argues that a comprehensive approach to treaty reform requires both a more inclusive and longer-term perspective. We re-conceptualize agency and structure in the process of treaty reform; examine theoretically as well as empirically the respective roles of interests, ideas and institutions in treaty reform; and seek to reconcile agency and structure, as well as ideas, interests and institutions, in a temporal perspective on treaty re…
Transnational governance ‘above’ and ‘below’ the state
(2000). Transnational governance 'above' and 'below' the state: The changing nature of borders in the new Europe. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 10, Europe and the Regions: The Issue of Governance, pp. 62-77
Four dialogues and the funeral of a beautiful relationship
This article engages in the debate on (the study of) regionalism in providing an overview of the nexus between European Studies (ES) and (New) Regionalism (NR). While the immediate purpose for doing so is to set the stage for the future debate on regional dynamics, this exploration can also be perceived as a case study into (the plurality of forms of) inter/intra-disciplinary dialogue demonstrating the necessity of engaging in ‘dialogues about di…
Continental IR Theory
This article reviews the exotic theoretical landscape of Continental IR Theory (CIRT). While often neglected, or claimed to be uninteresting, or being a franchise business producing copies of theorizing done elsewhere, the article attempts to demonstrate that the discipline of International Relations can benefit significantly from an increased awareness of theorizing on the European continent. Far from being a franchise establishment, CIRT delive…
Loyal at once? The EU’s global health awakening in the Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic marks a shift in the EU’s approach to the multilateral system. Just at a time when the EU aspires to avoid being crushed between the US and China, the World Health Organization (WHO) became one of the new battlegrounds in world politics. This norm-setting international organization for health was already under pressure due to a plethora of other organizations trespassing its mandate, reduced core funding and weak governance,…
Discursively (de-)constructing European foreign policy
This article is about European foreign policy, specifically an examination of ways in which discourse analysis and foreign policy analysis can be brought together. The first aim of this article is to explicate the explanandum in some detail. Before we know what we are looking for, it gives limited meaning to consider procedures for methodological procedures. Once the explanandum has been identified, the article examines theoretical approaches and…
The European Union in Multilateral Diplomacy
This article examines the role of the European Union in multilateral diplomacy. By means of synthesizing and summarizing research on seven selected policy fields, the article aims to make more general claims than single policy or single case studies allow. The analysis focuses on five analytical dimensions: governance (that is, how the EU handles multilateral diplomacy in different international institutions); the role of EU domestic politics; ne…
Introduction
In some contrast to the traditional and ongoing normative discussions about the desirability of a world state, new and more explicitly geo-historical questions about world political integration are being posed, especially (i) whether elements of world statehood are in existence already, (ii) whether a world state is in some sense inevitable, and (iii) whether, and under what conditions, a world state would be sustainable? For instance, the existi…
Studying European integration in the 1990s
Basic International Institutions, Pseudo-Institutions and the Institutions Called States
The Eeas navigating foreign policy paradigms
Addressing the issue of EU foreign policy, this article analyses one of the European institutions, the EEAS, and examines how the EEAS navigates in a European landscape characterised by a handful of main foreign policy paradigms. In particular, we ask how the EEAS has adjusted its foreign policies in the light of competing paradigms. In the first section, we explicate the key concepts including policy paradigms, worldviews and public philosophy. …
Treaty reform as constitutional politics - a longitudinal view
Some analysts prefer to see the European Union's treaty reforms as a string of bargains between self-interested member state governments. This, however, is simplistic and reflects the continuing legacy of an outdated 'Hobbesian' conception of modern society. In order to gain a more convincing understanding of the dynamics of European treaty reform it is necessary to adopt an explicitly 'non-Hobbesian' position which takes seriously modern society…
The European Union and the crisis of multilateralism in an era of uncertainty and power politics
The European Union (EU) has a rich policy portfolio towards and within many formal international governmental organisations (FIGOs). For decades, the EU has officially promoted ‘effective multilateralism’. However, the main argument of the article is that the EU’s relations with many members of FIGOs are bound to be conflictual. We unpack the argument in three steps. First, we address a fundamental issue, specifically the general characteristics …
Things are different in Pago Pago’
This is a reply to:Ahrens, Bettina and Thomas Diez. 2015. “Solidarisation and its limits: the EU and the transformation of international society.” Global Discourse 5 (3): 341–355. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1080/23269995.2015.1053189
On cleavages, port and dialogues
In this rejoinder we appreciate Ben Rosamond and Alex Warleigh-Lack’s addition to our typology of dialogues, yet restate our main reasons to remain sceptical about the outcome of a dialogue between European Studies and New Regionalism
From the Incoming Editor
On Storytelling in International Relations
Basic International Institutions, Pseudo-Institutions and the Institutions Called States
The United States and the European Union in the 1990s
Studying European integration in the 1990s
The social construction of Europe
The article introduces constructivist approaches to research on European integration. While stressing middle-range theory, it recognizes that meta-theoretical choices also matter for theorizing and analysing European integration. Tracing developments in the philosophy of science and in international relations theory, social constructivism is introduced as a way of establishing the 'middle ground' in juxtaposition to rationalism and reflectivism -…
Transnational governance ‘above’ and ‘below’ the state
(2000). Transnational governance 'above' and 'below' the state: The changing nature of borders in the new Europe. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 10, Europe and the Regions: The Issue of Governance, pp. 62-77
Continental IR Theory
This article reviews the exotic theoretical landscape of Continental IR Theory (CIRT). While often neglected, or claimed to be uninteresting, or being a franchise business producing copies of theorizing done elsewhere, the article attempts to demonstrate that the discipline of International Relations can benefit significantly from an increased awareness of theorizing on the European continent. Far from being a franchise establishment, CIRT delive…
From the Incoming Editor
Treaty reform as constitutional politics - a longitudinal view
Some analysts prefer to see the European Union's treaty reforms as a string of bargains between self-interested member state governments. This, however, is simplistic and reflects the continuing legacy of an outdated 'Hobbesian' conception of modern society. In order to gain a more convincing understanding of the dynamics of European treaty reform it is necessary to adopt an explicitly 'non-Hobbesian' position which takes seriously modern society…
Theorizing EU treaty reform
This article argues that a comprehensive approach to treaty reform requires both a more inclusive and longer-term perspective. We re-conceptualize agency and structure in the process of treaty reform; examine theoretically as well as empirically the respective roles of interests, ideas and institutions in treaty reform; and seek to reconcile agency and structure, as well as ideas, interests and institutions, in a temporal perspective on treaty re…
Constituting Communities
From a cross-disciplinary and conceptual perspective this book discusses the political solutions of constitutional patriotism, republicanism and liberal nationalism to cultural conflict. It places the
The European Union in Multilateral Diplomacy
This article examines the role of the European Union in multilateral diplomacy. By means of synthesizing and summarizing research on seven selected policy fields, the article aims to make more general claims than single policy or single case studies allow. The analysis focuses on five analytical dimensions: governance (that is, how the EU handles multilateral diplomacy in different international institutions); the role of EU domestic politics; ne…
International Relations Theory
The Eeas and the challenges of multilateral diplomacy
El artículo se centra en el análisis de los desafíos más importantes que la UE ha de afrontar en el ámbito de la diplomacia multilateral, tras las importantes innovaciones institucionales contenidas en el Tratado de Lisboa, y específicamente tras la creación del SEAE. De manera más precisa, se identifican y discuten críticamente diez grandes desafíos en este terreno, así como su posible relación con las dimensiones instrumentales del nuevo SEAE, …
Introduction
This article introduces the analytical framework of the collection on the performance of the EU in international institutions and summarizes its main findings. We focus on the role of the EU in the decision-making within international organizations and regimes as a major locus of global governance. We suggest unpacking the concept of EU performance into four core elements: effectiveness (goal achievement);relevance (of the EU for its priority sta…
Introduction
In some contrast to the traditional and ongoing normative discussions about the desirability of a world state, new and more explicitly geo-historical questions about world political integration are being posed, especially (i) whether elements of world statehood are in existence already, (ii) whether a world state is in some sense inevitable, and (iii) whether, and under what conditions, a world state would be sustainable? For instance, the existi…
Four dialogues and the funeral of a beautiful relationship
This article engages in the debate on (the study of) regionalism in providing an overview of the nexus between European Studies (ES) and (New) Regionalism (NR). While the immediate purpose for doing so is to set the stage for the future debate on regional dynamics, this exploration can also be perceived as a case study into (the plurality of forms of) inter/intra-disciplinary dialogue demonstrating the necessity of engaging in ‘dialogues about di…
Performance of the EU in International Institutions
Discursively (de-)constructing European foreign policy
This article is about European foreign policy, specifically an examination of ways in which discourse analysis and foreign policy analysis can be brought together. The first aim of this article is to explicate the explanandum in some detail. Before we know what we are looking for, it gives limited meaning to consider procedures for methodological procedures. Once the explanandum has been identified, the article examines theoretical approaches and…
On cleavages, port and dialogues
In this rejoinder we appreciate Ben Rosamond and Alex Warleigh-Lack’s addition to our typology of dialogues, yet restate our main reasons to remain sceptical about the outcome of a dialogue between European Studies and New Regionalism
Theorizing Foreign Policy in a Globalized World
Constructing International Relations
PART I: RECONSIDERING CONSTRUCTIVISM 1. Constructivism as an Approach to Interdisciplinary Study, Friedrich V. Kratochwil 2. Four Levels and a Discipline, Knud Erik Jorgensen 3. Constructivisms in International Relations: Wendt, Onuf and Kratochwil, Maja Zehfuss 4. Feminism: Constructivism's Other Pedigree, Birgit Locher and Elisabeth Prugl 5. What Systems Theory Can Tell Us about Constructivism, Mathias Albert PART II: PRACTICING CONSTRUCTIVISM …
Things are different in Pago Pago’
This is a reply to:Ahrens, Bettina and Thomas Diez. 2015. “Solidarisation and its limits: the EU and the transformation of international society.” Global Discourse 5 (3): 341–355. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1080/23269995.2015.1053189
Reflective Approaches to European Governance
Unusual times call for unusual initiatives
Political science (28 works) · Law (20 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Economics (16 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (10 works)