Ronnie D Lipschutz
Biographic Data
| ID | 385370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronnie D Lipschutz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronnie D |
| FAMILY NAME | Lipschutz |
| SIGNATURE | LIPSCHUTZ R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4256-4328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 225 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Global Environmental Politics of Resistance, Revisited
In the inaugural issue of Global Environmental Politics, three scholars debated how social movements could or should address the role of resistance in environmental politics. In this essay, we revisit and renew dialogue around the scholarship of resistance for environmental politics. This intervention serves to reignite discussion and scholarship about resistance in our current conjuncture. We suggest that environmental research should address th…
Beyond International Relations and toward International Relationality
This article provides a review and commentary on the articles in this special issue, which offer alter-IRs as approaches to bringing climate change into international relations theory and practice as a force or phenomenon that can transform theory and practice. I summarize the articles, as I read them, and suggest that this is a largely futile task. Is description of new ontologies and epistemologies sufficient to bring climate change into IR in …
Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative System by Hans A. Baer
September 18 2022 Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative System by Hans A. Baer Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative System by Hans A. Baer. 2021. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Ronnie D. Lipschutz Ronnie D. Lipschutz Sustainable Systems Research Institute Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Ronnie D. Lipschutz Sustainable S…
Climate Change, Security, and the International System: It’s Still the Same Old Story
These days, there is little question that climate change has arrived and poses one of the most serious threats to humanity’s and the planet’s futures. Here are the basic questions about climate change: What must we do? What should we do? What can we do? What could we do? What will we do? And why have we done so little?Thirty years ago, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, representatives from 150 countries signed the United Nations Framework Co…
Disaster upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a book could not be more timely than this one about disaster prevention, relief, and recovery. Disaster upon Disaster is a collection of essays about disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management by a group of anthropologists, both scholars and practitioners. Almost to the letter, they echo the plaint of Stephen Krasner (1978, ix) who once asked, “Why are so many social scientists so anxious to give a…
Eco-utopia or eco-catastrophe? Re-imagining California as an ecological utopia
In this article, I explore four California-based eco-utopias: The Earth Abides (George Stewart, 1949), Ecotopia (Ernest Callenbach, 1975), Pacific Edge (Kim Stanley Robinson, 1990), and Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson, 1992). All four novels were written during, and deeply informed by, the Cold War (Although published in 1992, Snow Crash was clearly written toward the end of the Cold War and in the shadow of Soviet implosion), against a backdrop of i…
Civil Societies and Social Movements: Domestic, Transnational, Global
This volume offers an historical and comparative overview of the literature, theory, practices and critiques of what has been variously labelled 'global' or 'transnational' civil society, which includes a broad range of non-state actors, political, social and economic. The volume includes an introductory essay that historicizes and problematizes the relationship of society to state and market and contextualizes the pieces in the volume, while loc…
Doing Well by Doing Good? Transnational Regulatory Campaigns, Social Activism, and Impacts on State Sovereignty 1
This chapter begins with a general discussion of the conditions under which the global harmonization of social regulations has become an issue of intense concern and interest, especially within industrialized countries, and how efforts toward these ends might affect states' authority to regulate. It presents several possible ways in which such regulation might result in impacts on state sovereignty. One crucial reason has to do with the general q…
Can Climate Change Us
Legacies of Empire: Imperial Roots of the Contemporary Global Order
The nation-state is a fairly recent historical phenomenon. Human history over the past two to four millennia has been dominated by empires, and the legacies of these empires continues to shape the contemporary world in ways that are not always recognised or fully understood. Much research and writing about European colonial empires has focused on relations between them and their colonies. This book examines the phenomenon of empire from a differe…
Constitution of Imperium
Film Review: Marie-Monique Robin (Director) The World According to Monsanto Ottawa, Ontario: National Film Board of Canada & various French and Belgian collaborators, 2008. 109 minutes
What Comes after Liberalism? More Liberalism
Liberalism will survive this crisis, as it has many others, but it will have changed. The felt need to ensure the security of the economy, and the threats posed to the social order by individuals with potentially threatening capabilities, will require more and more surveillance of our everyday lives and more and more of our participation in those processes of ‘keeping an eye out’ for anonymous parcels, suspicious behaviours, provocative speech an…
The Sustainability Debate: Déjà Vu All Over Again
Flies in Our Eyes: Man, the Economy and War
In this article, I put three works into conversation: William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan and Kenneth Waltz’s Man, the State and War. I do this in order to interrogate the foundations and sources of social violence, both within societies and between them. I compare Golding’s and Hobbes’s stories of ‘origins’ to illustrate how, on the one hand, fairly straightforward notions of supply and demand, production and reproduct…
Why not perfect harmony? Commentary on Jan Aart Scholte's Article ‘Civil Society and the Legitimation of Global Governance’
Imperial Warfare in the Naked City-Sociality as Critical Infrastructure
The Global War on Terror (GWOT), framed as conflict with groups and individuals determined to disrupt and destroy “critical infrastructures,” is heavily dependent on technological and psychological discourses and practices to find terrorists and their plots.[1][1] These methods seek to protect the material “backbone” of contemporary society and to detect those individuals whose capabilities might progress to action. Yet, the social nature of all …
The Historical and Structural Origins of Global Civil Society
Like so many other concepts in contemporary political language, ‘global civil society’ (GCS) has become a trope, a term that means whatever the speaker wishes. As David Chandler makes clear in his
The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor by William Langewiesche
Journal Article The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor by William Langewiesche Get access The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poorby William Langewiesche. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007. 192pp. $22.00. Ronnie D. Lipschutz Ronnie D. Lipschutz University of California, Santa Cruz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 122, Issue 4, Winter 2007, Pages 695–…
Soylent Green … is … People: Labour, Bodies and Capital in the Global Political Economy
The Struggle for Global Democracy
Does global civil society really exist? If so, what does it look like, and where might we find it? In Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society, Elisabeth Friedman, Kathryn Hochstetler, and Ann Marie Clark argue that global civil society does exist, most evidently at the six major United Nations (UN) conferences of the 1990s (specifically, Rio de Janeiro, Vienna, Beijing, Cairo, Copenhagen, and Instanbul). Thousands of nongovernmental orga…
Power, Politics and Global Civil Society
Although there remains considerable dispute about Global Civil Society (GCS) — whom or what it includes, whether it is international or truly global, and how it is constituted — there is no doubt that the agents, actors, organisations, and institutions of transnational social and economic exchange and action exist. But what is GCS? Is it a space or locus of sovereign agents, or merely a structural effect? Does it wield compulsory power or it is a…
Globalization, governmentiality and global politics: Regulation for the Rest of Us
Power in Global Governance
This edited volume examines power in its different dimensions in global governance. Scholars tend to underestimate the importance of power in international relations because of a failure to see its multiple forms. To expand the conceptual aperture, this book presents and employs a taxonomy that alerts scholars to the different kinds of power that are present in world politics. A team of international scholars demonstrate how these different forms…
Global Environmental Politics: Power, Perspectives, and Practice
Traditional views of global environmental politics take the structures and relations of international politics as a given. Solutions to environmental problems, then, must be products of concession, negotiation, and inevitable compromise - a world of top-down planetary management. Lipschutz challenges students to question these conventional approaches. He argues that much light can be shed on global environmental degradation if we look beyond the …
Reconstructing World Politics: The Emergence of Global Civil Society
Power, Politics and Global Civil Society
Although there remains considerable dispute about Global Civil Society (GCS) — whom or what it includes, whether it is international or truly global, and how it is constituted — there is no doubt that the agents, actors, organisations, and institutions of transnational social and economic exchange and action exist. But what is GCS? Is it a space or locus of sovereign agents, or merely a structural effect? Does it wield compulsory power or it is a…
After Authority: War, Peace, and Global Politics in the 21st Century
Crossing borders: Global civil society and the reconfiguration of transnational political space
When Nations Clash: Raw Materials, Ideology and Foreign Policy
From Place to Planet: Local Knowledge and Global Environmental Governance
Terror in the suites: Narratives of fear and the political economy of danger
(1999). Terror in the suites: Narratives of fear and the political economy of danger. Global Society: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 411-439
Because People Matter: Studying Global Political Economy
The 1990s were hard on our traditional theories of International Relations and International Political Economy, and the Millennium has brought the End of Meta‐Narrative as We Know It. In this article, I discuss and dissect three of the past decade's meta‐narratives, and show how they were no more than failed efforts to shore up the decomposing corpus of mainstream theories. In their stead, I offer a preliminary description of a contextual and con…
The Clash of Governmentalities: The Fall of the UN Republic and America's Reach for Empire
Environmental History, Political Economy and Change: Frameworks and Tools for Research and Analysis
This article addresses questions of method, focus and research strategy in environmental history and political economy for policy analysis and policy-making. While most environmental history is seen as having to do with landscapes past and how they got that way, environmental history can also have practical contemporary applications. By coming to understand the sources and origins of environmental degradation, and the patterns of social organizat…
Beyond International Relations and toward International Relationality
This article provides a review and commentary on the articles in this special issue, which offer alter-IRs as approaches to bringing climate change into international relations theory and practice as a force or phenomenon that can transform theory and practice. I summarize the articles, as I read them, and suggest that this is a largely futile task. Is description of new ontologies and epistemologies sufficient to bring climate change into IR in …
Climate Change, Security, and the International System: It’s Still the Same Old Story
These days, there is little question that climate change has arrived and poses one of the most serious threats to humanity’s and the planet’s futures. Here are the basic questions about climate change: What must we do? What should we do? What can we do? What could we do? What will we do? And why have we done so little?Thirty years ago, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, representatives from 150 countries signed the United Nations Framework Co…
What Comes after Liberalism? More Liberalism
Liberalism will survive this crisis, as it has many others, but it will have changed. The felt need to ensure the security of the economy, and the threats posed to the social order by individuals with potentially threatening capabilities, will require more and more surveillance of our everyday lives and more and more of our participation in those processes of ‘keeping an eye out’ for anonymous parcels, suspicious behaviours, provocative speech an…
The Sustainability Debate: Déjà Vu All Over Again
Imperial Warfare in the Naked City-Sociality as Critical Infrastructure
The Global War on Terror (GWOT), framed as conflict with groups and individuals determined to disrupt and destroy “critical infrastructures,” is heavily dependent on technological and psychological discourses and practices to find terrorists and their plots.[1][1] These methods seek to protect the material “backbone” of contemporary society and to detect those individuals whose capabilities might progress to action. Yet, the social nature of all …
The Historical and Structural Origins of Global Civil Society
Like so many other concepts in contemporary political language, ‘global civil society’ (GCS) has become a trope, a term that means whatever the speaker wishes. As David Chandler makes clear in his
Imitations of Empire
Empire is best understood not as a singular territorial or economic entity or an arrangement of flows and accumulation of stocks but, rather, as a type of rule. That is, it is the relationships between ruler and ruled, and the mechanisms of rule, that are important in contemporary discussions of “empire.” In today's American Empire, we see the mixing of two forms of rule: what is often called “neo-liberal institutionalism” with “new sovereignty.”…
Ohmage to Resistance
This essay disputes the arguments made by Robert Paehlke and John Dryzek in their contributions to this issue of Global Environmental Politics. Both reform and resistance are necessary, but not sufficient, elements in collective efforts to facilitating global and local environmental protection and sustainable development. What is essential, as well, are campaigns to establish alternative institutional frameworks for the fulfillment of these goals…
The United Nations and Civil Society: Creative Partnerships for Sustainable Development
As people from around the world gathered in San Francisco in the summer of 1995 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations organization, celebration and euphoria were greatly tempered with frustration and sober reassessment about the future of global governance. Creating the capacity to deal effectively with poverty, malnutrition, environmental degradation, resource depletion, and other problems associated with …
When Nations Clash: Raw Materials, Ideology and Foreign Policy
Reconstructing World Politics: The Emergence of Global Civil Society
The United Nations and Civil Society: Creative Partnerships for Sustainable Development
As people from around the world gathered in San Francisco in the summer of 1995 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations organization, celebration and euphoria were greatly tempered with frustration and sober reassessment about the future of global governance. Creating the capacity to deal effectively with poverty, malnutrition, environmental degradation, resource depletion, and other problems associated with …
From Place to Planet: Local Knowledge and Global Environmental Governance
Terror in the suites: Narratives of fear and the political economy of danger
(1999). Terror in the suites: Narratives of fear and the political economy of danger. Global Society: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 411-439
Globalism or globaloney
(2000). Globalism or Globaloney? Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 277-279
Crossing borders: Global civil society and the reconfiguration of transnational political space
After Authority: War, Peace, and Global Politics in the 21st Century
After authority: War, Peace, and Global Politics in the 21st Century
Ohmage to Resistance
This essay disputes the arguments made by Robert Paehlke and John Dryzek in their contributions to this issue of Global Environmental Politics. Both reform and resistance are necessary, but not sufficient, elements in collective efforts to facilitating global and local environmental protection and sustainable development. What is essential, as well, are campaigns to establish alternative institutional frameworks for the fulfillment of these goals…
Environmental History, Political Economy and Change: Frameworks and Tools for Research and Analysis
This article addresses questions of method, focus and research strategy in environmental history and political economy for policy analysis and policy-making. While most environmental history is seen as having to do with landscapes past and how they got that way, environmental history can also have practical contemporary applications. By coming to understand the sources and origins of environmental degradation, and the patterns of social organizat…
Because People Matter: Studying Global Political Economy
The 1990s were hard on our traditional theories of International Relations and International Political Economy, and the Millennium has brought the End of Meta‐Narrative as We Know It. In this article, I discuss and dissect three of the past decade's meta‐narratives, and show how they were no more than failed efforts to shore up the decomposing corpus of mainstream theories. In their stead, I offer a preliminary description of a contextual and con…
The Clash of Governmentalities: The Fall of the UN Republic and America's Reach for Empire
Power in Global Governance
This edited volume examines power in its different dimensions in global governance. Scholars tend to underestimate the importance of power in international relations because of a failure to see its multiple forms. To expand the conceptual aperture, this book presents and employs a taxonomy that alerts scholars to the different kinds of power that are present in world politics. A team of international scholars demonstrate how these different forms…
Global Environmental Politics: Power, Perspectives, and Practice
Traditional views of global environmental politics take the structures and relations of international politics as a given. Solutions to environmental problems, then, must be products of concession, negotiation, and inevitable compromise - a world of top-down planetary management. Lipschutz challenges students to question these conventional approaches. He argues that much light can be shed on global environmental degradation if we look beyond the …
Imitations of Empire
Empire is best understood not as a singular territorial or economic entity or an arrangement of flows and accumulation of stocks but, rather, as a type of rule. That is, it is the relationships between ruler and ruled, and the mechanisms of rule, that are important in contemporary discussions of “empire.” In today's American Empire, we see the mixing of two forms of rule: what is often called “neo-liberal institutionalism” with “new sovereignty.”…
Sweating it out: NGO campaigns and trade union empowerment
In the context of globalisation, transnational social regulation is increasingly the product of NGOs intervening in the sphere of global trade. Drawing on empirical research in SE Asia, the author contends that what matters as much as codes of conduct are spillover effects whose force extends beyond building walls into the broader society of the host country. The basis for effective labour law lies within states, and activism must focus on improv…
Power, Politics and Global Civil Society
Although there remains considerable dispute about Global Civil Society (GCS) — whom or what it includes, whether it is international or truly global, and how it is constituted — there is no doubt that the agents, actors, organisations, and institutions of transnational social and economic exchange and action exist. But what is GCS? Is it a space or locus of sovereign agents, or merely a structural effect? Does it wield compulsory power or it is a…
Globalization, governmentiality and global politics: Regulation for the Rest of Us
Soylent Green … is … People: Labour, Bodies and Capital in the Global Political Economy
The Struggle for Global Democracy
Does global civil society really exist? If so, what does it look like, and where might we find it? In Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society, Elisabeth Friedman, Kathryn Hochstetler, and Ann Marie Clark argue that global civil society does exist, most evidently at the six major United Nations (UN) conferences of the 1990s (specifically, Rio de Janeiro, Vienna, Beijing, Cairo, Copenhagen, and Instanbul). Thousands of nongovernmental orga…
The Historical and Structural Origins of Global Civil Society
Like so many other concepts in contemporary political language, ‘global civil society’ (GCS) has become a trope, a term that means whatever the speaker wishes. As David Chandler makes clear in his
The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor by William Langewiesche
Journal Article The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor by William Langewiesche Get access The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poorby William Langewiesche. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007. 192pp. $22.00. Ronnie D. Lipschutz Ronnie D. Lipschutz University of California, Santa Cruz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 122, Issue 4, Winter 2007, Pages 695–…
Why not perfect harmony? Commentary on Jan Aart Scholte's Article ‘Civil Society and the Legitimation of Global Governance’
Imperial Warfare in the Naked City-Sociality as Critical Infrastructure
The Global War on Terror (GWOT), framed as conflict with groups and individuals determined to disrupt and destroy “critical infrastructures,” is heavily dependent on technological and psychological discourses and practices to find terrorists and their plots.[1][1] These methods seek to protect the material “backbone” of contemporary society and to detect those individuals whose capabilities might progress to action. Yet, the social nature of all …
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