Stefano Guzzini
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 382344 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stefano Guzzini |
| PRENOMES | Stefano |
| SOBRENOME | Guzzini |
| ASSINATURA | GUZZINI S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | European University Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7721-6983 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 469 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Foregrounding politics
Relationalism(s) Unpacked
In a spirit of dialogue, this article engages Yaqing Qin’s relational theory of world politics in a conversation by trying to relate it to Western theoretical partners outside of his (mainly Anglo-American) individualist and rationalist focus. The central piece of the analysis is Qin’s relationalism, which provides the link between different levels of theorizing: as an ontology, it allows us to approach a different Weltanschauung or cosmology; as…
Forum
The papers in this Forum, along with eight papers consecutively published in previous and current issues of this journal, constitute a special symposium, which engages in a dialogue between the “Chinese School” of International Relations (IR) theory and “Western” IR theories. The contributors are renowned Western theorists representing various Western paradigms and leading Chinese theorists from the three branches of the Chinese School, namely “m…
Critical and Interpretivist Foreign Policy Analysis
This text concludes the Special Issue on “New Directions for Foreign Policy Analysis” that aims at exploring some recent research avenues in the critical and interpretivist tradition in International Relations. Rather than summarising the contributions to the Special Issue, it reflects on a series of challenges ahead, focusing on three: the theoretical challenges in identity-focused or practice-theory inspired FPA, the international division of k…
Forum on Recognition in Foreign Policy (Analysis) and (The Study of) Diplomacy
What if the quest for recognition, not power, rank or security, were the overriding objective of foreign policies? What if practices of recognition both empower and subjugate by fixing identities and reproducing the terms upon which agents become recognisable in the first place? Can recognition as encounter become the diplomatic task of, and condition for, a post-colonial international order? This Forum addresses some implications of putting reco…
New Directions for Foreign Policy Analysis
This special issue (vol. 45 (2) and vol. 46(2)) presents (some) new research directions for Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and Diplomatic Studies. It is driven by the dual aim of exploring contemporary debates that have nourished interpretivist approaches to foreign policy and diplomacy and engaging, through this very prism, with two broader audiences in Brazil. On the one hand, it wishes to connect these recent research directions to scholars wor…
Ideas and Identity from Rationalism to Theories of Recognition
All approaches to foreign policy analysis deal with ideas and identity; the issue is how they do so. The underlying theory of action, from utilitarianism to discursive ontologies and theories of recognition, provides the methodological assumptions of their respective analyses. The chapter develops first how the methodology of utilitarian approaches like recent versions of realism and liberalism deals with ideas, norms, and identity. It will be fo…
Alexander Wendt, Quantum mind and social science
Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science hypothesizes that all intentional phenomena, including both psychological and social facts, are macroscopic quantum mechanical processes. Whether right or wrong, the suggestion highlights the fact that the social sciences, including IR, have until very recently never systematically discussed the potential relevance to our work of the quantum revolution a century ago. According to Wendt, that has l…
Protean power as a plea for an open social ontology, non-efficient causal explanations, and cautious political practice
This paper probes the attempt to use power analysis to link three domains: ontology, explanation, and the strategy of political actors. It shows how Katzenstein and Seybert develop an open social ontology that serves as the backdrop for explanations that need to be causal but indeterminate, and a cautious political practice. It exposes tensions in two important links. First, the open ontology becomes retranslated as an explanatory cause. Second, …
Embrace IR Anxieties (or, Morgenthau's Approach to Power, and the Challenge of Combining the Three Domains of IR Theorizing)
This article addresses the call made by the ISA Sapphire panel to focus on “the opportunities and the challenges of theory-building in interdisciplinary scholarship.” The article focuses on the multiple anxieties that exist in the discipline of IR, its departmental subalternity, its fragmentation of content, its methodological diversity, and its hybrid constitution of practical and observational knowledge. However, rather than arguing for any res…
Max Weber’s Power
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Militarizing politics, essentializing identities
This reply to the Symposium on Stefano Guzzini (ed.) The return of geopolitics in Europe?, answers the criticisms by John Agnew, Jeffrey Checkel, Dan Deudney and Jennifer Mitzen. It justifies (1) its specific definition and critique of geopolitics as a theory – and not just a foreign policy strategy; (2) its proposed interpretivist process tracing; (3) the role of mechanisms in constructivist theorizing and foreign policy theory; and (4) its usag…
Power and cause
Benjamin Cohen on global political order
This article analyses the trajectory of Benjamin
El poder en Max Weber
El artículo toma una postura en relación a cómo ha sido entendido Weber al intentar verle principalmente como un precursor de una ciencia social empírica y una concepción causal del poder como en la tradición de Dahl. Sigue el argumento y confirma la opinión de Raymond Aron de que, al contrario, su ciencia social está profundamente imbuida de objetivos filosóficos: "Esta interpretación de la relación entre la ciencia y la política lleva a una cie…
What kind of theory - if any - is securitization
One of the great appeals of securitization theory, and a major reason for its success, has been its usefulness as a tool for empirical research: an analytic framework capable of practical application. However, the development of securitization has raised several criticisms, the most important of which concern the nature of securitization theory. In fact, the appropriate methods, the research puzzles and type of evidence accepted all derive to a g…
Introduction
When international affairs seemed stuck in a state of (cold) war, how could politics regain its place? How could diplomacy get back to center stage, when it was asked to establish a common language for assessing (if disa-greeing about) events and finding compromises, while being, paradoxically, only able to function if such shared understandings already existed? As it happens, political practice gave some hints. German
Replies to Chris Brown’s ‘“Human Nature”, science and international political theory’ (Jird 4/2013)
Power, Realism and Constructivism
Framed by a new and substantial introductory chapter, this book collects Stefano Guzzini’s reference articles and some less well-known publications on power, realism and constructivism. By analysing theories and their assumptions, but also theorists following their intellectual paths, his analysis explores the diversity of different schools, and moves beyond simple definitions to explore their intrinsic tensions and fallacies. Guzzini’s approach …
Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy
Stefano Guzzini's study offers an understanding of the evolution of the realist tradition within International Relations and International Political Economy. It sees the realist tradition not as a school of thought with a static set of fixed principles, but as a repeatedly failed attempt to turn the rules of European diplomacy into the laws of a US social science. Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy concentrates…
The ends of International Relations theory
International Relations theory is being squeezed between two sides. On the one hand, the world of practitioners and attached experts often perceive International Relations theory as misleading if it does not correspond to practical knowledge, and redundant when it does. The academic study of international relations can and should not be anything beyond the capacity to provide political judgement which comes through reflection on the historical ex…
Branding Order
The Return of Geopolitics in Europe?
The end of the Cold War demonstrated the historical possibility of peaceful change and seemingly showed the superiority of non-realist approaches in International Relations. Yet in the post-Cold War period many European countries have experienced a resurgence of a distinctively realist tradition: geopolitics. Geopolitics is an approach which emphasizes the relationship between politics and power on the one hand; and territory, location and enviro…
A social theory for international relations
A social theory for international relations
The Concept of Power
Rather than exploring once again what the concept of power can mean for constructivists, this article analyses what constructivism implies for doing a conceptual analysis; here, of power. It will try to show that besides an analytical assessment (`what does power mean'), a constructivist conceptual analysis includes a study of the performative aspects of concepts (`what does `power' do'?), which, in turn is embedded into a conceptual history or g…
A Reconstruction of Constructivism in International Relations
In order to avoid both theoretically eclectic and redundant approaches to constructivism, this article proposes one possible and coherent reconstruction of constructivism understood as a reflexive meta-theory. This reconstruction starts by taking seriously the double sociological and interpretivist turn of the social sciences. Based on `double hermeneutics', constructivism is perhaps best understood by distinguishing its position on the level of …
Structural power
Realism explains the ruling of the international system through the underlying distribution of power among states. Increasingly, analysts have found this power analysis inadequate, and they have developed new concepts, most prominently structural power. The usage of structural power actually entails three different meanings, namely indirect institutional power, nonintentional power, and impersonal power. Only the first, however, is compatible wit…
Securitization as a causal mechanism
The article seeks to offer a way forward in discussions about the status of securitization theory. In my reading, this debate has been inhibited by the difficulty of finding an appropriate version of ‘understanding/explanation’ that would be consistent with the meta-theoretical commitments of a post-structuralist theory. By leaving ‘explanation’ and/or all versions of causality to the positivist other, the Copenhagen School also left its own expl…
The ends of International Relations theory
International Relations theory is being squeezed between two sides. On the one hand, the world of practitioners and attached experts often perceive International Relations theory as misleading if it does not correspond to practical knowledge, and redundant when it does. The academic study of international relations can and should not be anything beyond the capacity to provide political judgement which comes through reflection on the historical ex…
The ‘long night of the first republic’
Several analysts have explained the end of the postwar political system in Italy as an effect of the end of the Cold War. Deprived of the anti‐communist glue, Italians were, so the story goes, finally free to replace the corrupted regime. The present article argues instead that the recent changes should be seen as the effect of transnational and societal dynamics on modern welfare states that have upset the consociational/clientelistic bargain on…
Power and cause
Militarizing politics, essentializing identities
This reply to the Symposium on Stefano Guzzini (ed.) The return of geopolitics in Europe?, answers the criticisms by John Agnew, Jeffrey Checkel, Dan Deudney and Jennifer Mitzen. It justifies (1) its specific definition and critique of geopolitics as a theory – and not just a foreign policy strategy; (2) its proposed interpretivist process tracing; (3) the role of mechanisms in constructivist theorizing and foreign policy theory; and (4) its usag…
The Enduring Dilemmas of Realism in International Relations
The present article argues that the discipline of international relations is bound to repeat its rounds of debates about realism as long as the underlying dynamic intrinsic to the realist tradition is not understood. Whereas present debates tend to criticize contemporary realists for going astray (an unhappy conjuncture, as it were), this article claims that there exists a systematic theoretical problem with the way realist theorizing has develop…
Introduction
When international affairs seemed stuck in a state of (cold) war, how could politics regain its place? How could diplomacy get back to center stage, when it was asked to establish a common language for assessing (if disa-greeing about) events and finding compromises, while being, paradoxically, only able to function if such shared understandings already existed? As it happens, political practice gave some hints. German
The Different Worlds of Realism in International Relations
Imposing coherence
Embrace IR Anxieties (or, Morgenthau's Approach to Power, and the Challenge of Combining the Three Domains of IR Theorizing)
This article addresses the call made by the ISA Sapphire panel to focus on “the opportunities and the challenges of theory-building in interdisciplinary scholarship.” The article focuses on the multiple anxieties that exist in the discipline of IR, its departmental subalternity, its fragmentation of content, its methodological diversity, and its hybrid constitution of practical and observational knowledge. However, rather than arguing for any res…
What kind of theory - if any - is securitization
One of the great appeals of securitization theory, and a major reason for its success, has been its usefulness as a tool for empirical research: an analytic framework capable of practical application. However, the development of securitization has raised several criticisms, the most important of which concern the nature of securitization theory. In fact, the appropriate methods, the research puzzles and type of evidence accepted all derive to a g…
Replies to Chris Brown’s ‘“Human Nature”, science and international political theory’ (Jird 4/2013)
(All Jird) Editors' note
Foregrounding politics
Relationalism(s) Unpacked
In a spirit of dialogue, this article engages Yaqing Qin’s relational theory of world politics in a conversation by trying to relate it to Western theoretical partners outside of his (mainly Anglo-American) individualist and rationalist focus. The central piece of the analysis is Qin’s relationalism, which provides the link between different levels of theorizing: as an ontology, it allows us to approach a different Weltanschauung or cosmology; as…
Marxist Geopolitics
This short essay proposing a Marxist Geopolitics has basically two targets. On the one hand, it wishes to take space and territoriality more seriously than the allegedly shallow discursive approach
Calling for a less ‘brandish’ and less ‘grand’ reconvention
The Forum should not be too cosy, said the editors. But in many regards, Barry Buzan's invitation to put to better use the resources of the English School makes criticism difficult. Who is going to oppose, in principle, a more concentrated effort in international theorizing, methodological pluralism, substantial openness to sister fields and disciplines, linked to a general endeavour for giving some coherence to the diverging theoretical interest…
La longue nuit de la Première République. L'implosion clientéliste en Italie
La longue nuit de la Première République : L'implosion clientéliste en Italie. Stefano Guzzini. Plusieurs analystes ont expliqué la disparition du système politique italien de l'après-guerre comme un effet de la fin de la guerre froide. Privés du ciment de l'anticommunisme, les Italiens seraient enfin libres de remplacer un régime corrompu. Il semble, au contraire, que les changements récents doivent être considérés comme l'effet de dynamiques tr…
Structural power
Realism explains the ruling of the international system through the underlying distribution of power among states. Increasingly, analysts have found this power analysis inadequate, and they have developed new concepts, most prominently structural power. The usage of structural power actually entails three different meanings, namely indirect institutional power, nonintentional power, and impersonal power. Only the first, however, is compatible wit…
La longue nuit de la Première République
La longue nuit de la Première République. L'implosion clientéliste en Italie
La longue nuit de la Première République : L'implosion clientéliste en Italie. Stefano Guzzini. Plusieurs analystes ont expliqué la disparition du système politique italien de l'après-guerre comme un effet de la fin de la guerre froide. Privés du ciment de l'anticommunisme, les Italiens seraient enfin libres de remplacer un régime corrompu. Il semble, au contraire, que les changements récents doivent être considérés comme l'effet de dynamiques tr…
The ‘long night of the first republic’
Several analysts have explained the end of the postwar political system in Italy as an effect of the end of the Cold War. Deprived of the anti‐communist glue, Italians were, so the story goes, finally free to replace the corrupted regime. The present article argues instead that the recent changes should be seen as the effect of transnational and societal dynamics on modern welfare states that have upset the consociational/clientelistic bargain on…
European Economic and Monetary Union and the Crisis of European Social Contracts
A Reconstruction of Constructivism in International Relations
In order to avoid both theoretically eclectic and redundant approaches to constructivism, this article proposes one possible and coherent reconstruction of constructivism understood as a reflexive meta-theory. This reconstruction starts by taking seriously the double sociological and interpretivist turn of the social sciences. Based on `double hermeneutics', constructivism is perhaps best understood by distinguishing its position on the level of …
The Different Worlds of Realism in International Relations
Calling for a less ‘brandish’ and less ‘grand’ reconvention
The Forum should not be too cosy, said the editors. But in many regards, Barry Buzan's invitation to put to better use the resources of the English School makes criticism difficult. Who is going to oppose, in principle, a more concentrated effort in international theorizing, methodological pluralism, substantial openness to sister fields and disciplines, linked to a general endeavour for giving some coherence to the diverging theoretical interest…
Foreign Policy without Diplomacy
The Bush administration's foreign policy hitherto suffers from a neglect of diplomacy. It has emphasised a strategy that combines unilateral and re-militarising elements. Security is conceived of in terms of a gated community writ large. Diplomacy is downgraded to alliance-building (conveniently misnamed multilateralism) for a policy already decided. Other countries are sheer objects, not subjects, within US foreign policy. The conception of orde…
Contemporary Security Analysis and Copenhagen Peace Research
The Enduring Dilemmas of Realism in International Relations
The present article argues that the discipline of international relations is bound to repeat its rounds of debates about realism as long as the underlying dynamic intrinsic to the realist tradition is not understood. Whereas present debates tend to criticize contemporary realists for going astray (an unhappy conjuncture, as it were), this article claims that there exists a systematic theoretical problem with the way realist theorizing has develop…
Constructivism and International Relations
This new book unites in one volume some of the most prominent critiques of Alexander Wendt's constructivist theory of international relations and includes the first comprehensive reply by Wendt. Partly reprints of benchmark articles, partly new original critiques, the critical chapters are informed by a wide array of contending theories ranging from realism to poststructuralism. The collected leading theorists critique Wendt’s seminal book Social…
The Concept of Power
Rather than exploring once again what the concept of power can mean for constructivists, this article analyses what constructivism implies for doing a conceptual analysis; here, of power. It will try to show that besides an analytical assessment (`what does power mean'), a constructivist conceptual analysis includes a study of the performative aspects of concepts (`what does `power' do'?), which, in turn is embedded into a conceptual history or g…
(All Jird) Editors' note
Imposing coherence
Foreign Policy Analysis
A collection of the 53 major journal articles and chapters in Foreign Policy Analysis, 1948-2010.
Securitization as a causal mechanism
The article seeks to offer a way forward in discussions about the status of securitization theory. In my reading, this debate has been inhibited by the difficulty of finding an appropriate version of ‘understanding/explanation’ that would be consistent with the meta-theoretical commitments of a post-structuralist theory. By leaving ‘explanation’ and/or all versions of causality to the positivist other, the Copenhagen School also left its own expl…
Marxist Geopolitics
This short essay proposing a Marxist Geopolitics has basically two targets. On the one hand, it wishes to take space and territoriality more seriously than the allegedly shallow discursive approach
The Return of Geopolitics in Europe?
The end of the Cold War demonstrated the historical possibility of peaceful change and seemingly showed the superiority of non-realist approaches in International Relations. Yet in the post-Cold War period many European countries have experienced a resurgence of a distinctively realist tradition: geopolitics. Geopolitics is an approach which emphasizes the relationship between politics and power on the one hand; and territory, location and enviro…
Power, Realism and Constructivism
Framed by a new and substantial introductory chapter, this book collects Stefano Guzzini’s reference articles and some less well-known publications on power, realism and constructivism. By analysing theories and their assumptions, but also theorists following their intellectual paths, his analysis explores the diversity of different schools, and moves beyond simple definitions to explore their intrinsic tensions and fallacies. Guzzini’s approach …
Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy
Stefano Guzzini's study offers an understanding of the evolution of the realist tradition within International Relations and International Political Economy. It sees the realist tradition not as a school of thought with a static set of fixed principles, but as a repeatedly failed attempt to turn the rules of European diplomacy into the laws of a US social science. Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy concentrates…
The ends of International Relations theory
International Relations theory is being squeezed between two sides. On the one hand, the world of practitioners and attached experts often perceive International Relations theory as misleading if it does not correspond to practical knowledge, and redundant when it does. The academic study of international relations can and should not be anything beyond the capacity to provide political judgement which comes through reflection on the historical ex…
Branding Order
Replies to Chris Brown’s ‘“Human Nature”, science and international political theory’ (Jird 4/2013)
Benjamin Cohen on global political order
This article analyses the trajectory of Benjamin
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