Craig N Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 961259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig N Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig N |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY C N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1444-3473 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 45 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Consolidating power over others and Grigorescu’s theory in Restraining Power
Intervention before interventionism
Introduction
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Six Masculine Roles in International Relations and Their Interconnection
This chapter examines why many of the male scholars in international relations who are sympathetic to feminist studies of gender and international affairs, men who even lend such studies institutional support and who certainly have learned a great deal from them. It considers how the roles may relate to each other in the gendered structuring of power internationally and how the interests of men who play different roles may make them more likely o…
Egalitarian Politics in the Age of Globalization
Legacies of Empire
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…
The Last Two Centuries of Global Governance
In recent essays, Thomas Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson argue that analysis of systems of global governance going back to the beginnings of the earliest state systems could provide fundamental insight into the problems that trouble the scholarly field of international relations today. (1) While no social scientist or historian is yet able to give a credible account of global governance over those many millennia, it is possible to begin to recount the…
Afterword
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Voluntary Standard Setting
This essay is about the drivers and consequences of changes in the voluntary consensus standard-setting (VCSS) system, the part of the contemporary global governance system that most of us encounter the most frequently, but that we rarely even notice. The VCSS system is made up of thousands of “technical committees” in which hundreds of thousands of experts (most of them engineers) create standards that constantly affect our lives—from the unique…
Global Governance over the Long Haul
Wilkinson and Weiss (WW (ii) identifying and explaining both the largest structures of authority in any epoch as well as their interaction with more local systems; (iii) focusing our attention on power, interests, and on ideas—both those through which actors of a particular epoch come to understand their interests and those that reinforce, perhaps legitimately, the systems of authority of the day; and (iv) searching for ways to account for change…
Introduction
There has been much debate over the extent to which the rising powers of the global South are challenging contemporary global political and economic governance. While some observers see an emancipatory potential in the redistribution of power among states, others see the rising powers as firmly located within the Western-centred neoliberal world order. This collection of papers seeks to go beyond the state-centrism of existing approaches by exami…
Incomplete holoreflexivity or powerful vested interests
Joseph A. Camilleri and Jim Falk's Worlds in Transition: Evolving Governance across a Stressed Planet 1 is a large book: large in scope, large in intellectual ambition, and large in significance. I
United Nations Development Programme
Lessons of a ‘Good’ Crisis
The current crisis has implications for the structure of world power. Some parts of the developing world have enjoyed a very ‘good’ crisis, with sustained economic growth and even increasing equity. Similarly, during the Great Depression, Third World countries that adopted less-orthodox policies did better than core countries. These relative successes helped shape a generation of thinking about economic policy. Unfortunately, policies that made s…
Privatizing Environmental Governance
Many of today’s systems that regulate the environmental impact of households and arms grew out the work of national legislatures in the early 1970s. Tragically, perhaps, a global cultural shift began within a decade after this wave of legislatively sanctioned regulation; in the age of Thatcher, Reagan, and global neoliberalism, public regulation became anathema to powerful social forces and to many sitting governments. In lieu of national laws or…
Do the Left-Out Matter
Charles Le Maistre
Standardisation et innovation sont souvent perçues comme étant antithétiques ; pourtant, par la contrainte, le standard permet l’innovation. Cet article s’intéresse à Charles Le Maistre, « entrepreneur politique » au sens schumpéterien, qui prêcha en faveur d’une innovation organisationnelle : l’établissement de standards volontaires par consensus. Pendant la première moitié du XXe siècle, il diffusa cette innovation hors du Royaume-Uni vers bien…
The promise of critical IR, partially kept
The critical turn in IR promised a continuous archeology of the field, an empathetic understanding of those we study, and a social science unwedded to the pursuit of universally valid laws. In the United States, this movement was rooted more in a critique of peace research, than in a critique of the ‘NeoNeo’ mainstream, to which it became sort of ‘official opposition’. The promise has not been fulfilled because the research strategies of critical…
The United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme is the central network co-ordinating the work of the United Nations in over 160 developing countries. This 2006 book provides the first authoritative and accessible history of the Programme and its predecessors. Based on the findings of hundreds of interviews and archives in more than two dozen countries, Craig Murphy traces the history of the UNDP's organizational structure and mission, its relationship t…
International Relations and Responsibility in an Increasingly Unequal World
Martha Nussbaum has provided a major service to the study and practice of international relations (IR) by articulating the moral claims made on states and international organizations by the fact of human capabilities. In return, something of what has been learned by scholars of IR can contribute to her project by considering the ways in which concrete international institutions (such as UNDP) have struggled with their international responsibiliti…
Global Institutions, Marginalization and Development
For more than a century and a half, the most powerful national governments have created institutions of multilateral governance that promise to make a more inclusive world, a world serving women, working people, the colonized, the 'backward', the destitute, and the despised. This groundbreaking book is a study of that promise, and of the real impact of this world government. It discusses what systems global institutions have, and have not done to…
Knowledge/Power/Inequality
Journal Article Knowledge/Power/Inequality Get access Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Mustapha Kamal Pasha American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Craig N. Murphy Craig N. Murphy Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 4, Issue 2, Summer 2002, Pages 1–6, https://doi.org/10.1111/1521-9488.00251 Published: 13 February 2…
Symposium on Global Inequality and Teaching
Symposium on Global Inequality and Teaching: Taking Up the Challenge of Craig N. Murphy’s Presidential Address Jennifer Sterling‐Folker, Jennifer Sterling‐Folker University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James M. Scott, James M. Scott University of Nebraska at Kearney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar B. Welling Hall, B. Welling Hall Earlham College Se…
International Political Economy
International political economy (IPE) originated in the early 1970s. For almost 20 years it has been dominated by separate, largely non-communicating schools, one centred on scholarly institutions in Britain, the other associated with the US journal, International Organization (IO). In terms of the evolving norms of both economics and political science, both schools are surprisingly heterodox. Rather than developing strong systematic data collect…
Political Consequences of the New Inequality
This article proposes agendas for teaching and research about shifting global patterns of equality and inequality, a very different agenda than was appropriate when the last undergraduate professor was president of ISA, almost forty years ago. Today, unlike in that Cold War world, formal democracy is flourishing, state power is diminishing, gender inequality has diminished, and income inequality has risen. Consequences of these new patterns that …
Introduction
There has been much debate over the extent to which the rising powers of the global South are challenging contemporary global political and economic governance. While some observers see an emancipatory potential in the redistribution of power among states, others see the rising powers as firmly located within the Western-centred neoliberal world order. This collection of papers seeks to go beyond the state-centrism of existing approaches by exami…
Global Governance
Journal Article Global Governance: Poorly done and Poorly Understood Get access Craig N. Murphy Craig N. Murphy 1Professor and Chair of Political Science, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, President of the International Studies Association Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 76, Issue 4, October 2000, Pages 789–803, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00165 Published: 16 December 20…
America's Quest for Supremacy and the Third World
Part 1 Ideology: Gramsci's understanding of ideology elements of common sense in America ideology and American foreign policy the case of foreign assistance Reagan and American common sense. Part 2 Supremacy: Gramsci's understanding of supremacy the Third World and the challenge to American supremacy force and consensus in the world economy force and consensus in international civil society
Frameworks for International Co-operation
International organization in world society. Part One: Between States - A conceptual typology of international organization The idea of co-ordination in international organization Co-ordination and co-operation in the CMEA Harmonization Association The parallel national action process Supranationalism - The power and authority of international institutions. Part Two: State Building Federalism: The conceptual setting Consociation From autonomy to …
Political Consequences of the New Inequality
This article proposes agendas for teaching and research about shifting global patterns of equality and inequality, a very different agenda than was appropriate when the last undergraduate professor was president of ISA, almost forty years ago. Today, unlike in that Cold War world, formal democracy is flourishing, state power is diminishing, gender inequality has diminished, and income inequality has risen. Consequences of these new patterns that …
Seeing women, recognizing gender, recasting international relations
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The Epistemology of Poverty and the Poverty of Epistemology in IPE
International Institutions, Decolonization, and Development
This article treats modern international institutions as means of regulating the lateral pressure generated by the industrial system. The linking roles played by post-war international institutions in decolonization and development should be thought of as part of a transnational political system regulating conflict in the vast international economic region that was formed among the industrialized states with market economies and their Third World…
Understanding IR
Randall D. Germain and Michael Kenny's valuable 'Engaging Gramsci: International Theory and the New Gramscians'Review of International Studies, 24:1 (1998), pp. 3-21. alerts Anglophone IR scholars to broader debates about Gramsci's theories that are rarely highlighted by scholars in the (somewhat misnamed) 'Italian School'. Just as Germain and Kenny have offered one way to contextualize Gramsci's contributions within the intellectual and social w…
The promise of critical IR, partially kept
The critical turn in IR promised a continuous archeology of the field, an empathetic understanding of those we study, and a social science unwedded to the pursuit of universally valid laws. In the United States, this movement was rooted more in a critique of peace research, than in a critique of the ‘NeoNeo’ mainstream, to which it became sort of ‘official opposition’. The promise has not been fulfilled because the research strategies of critical…
International Political Economy
International political economy (IPE) originated in the early 1970s. For almost 20 years it has been dominated by separate, largely non-communicating schools, one centred on scholarly institutions in Britain, the other associated with the US journal, International Organization (IO). In terms of the evolving norms of both economics and political science, both schools are surprisingly heterodox. Rather than developing strong systematic data collect…
Introduction
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What the Third World Wants
This article proposes one answer to the question of 'why Third World governments have adopted and supported the ideology underlying their proposals for a New International Economic Order'. While it may seem ambitious to try to assess what the Third World wants (many others have already tried), this attempt differs from some others in that it is particularly concerned with the ways beliefs (and beliefs about beliefs) affect conflict resolution
The Last Two Centuries of Global Governance
In recent essays, Thomas Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson argue that analysis of systems of global governance going back to the beginnings of the earliest state systems could provide fundamental insight into the problems that trouble the scholarly field of international relations today. (1) While no social scientist or historian is yet able to give a credible account of global governance over those many millennia, it is possible to begin to recount the…
Do the Left-Out Matter
Inequality, turmoil and democracy
A System for Forecasting Strategic Crises
This article presents a system for forecasting increasing tension and war in the Middle East and illustrates to those studying crisis‐prone regions of the world an early warning system for predicting international tension. In the first part of the article are discussed the theory, methodology, and results obtained in testing the system, while the appendices present the more technical aspects. In the conclusion of this article it is held that cris…
Voluntary Standard Setting
This essay is about the drivers and consequences of changes in the voluntary consensus standard-setting (VCSS) system, the part of the contemporary global governance system that most of us encounter the most frequently, but that we rarely even notice. The VCSS system is made up of thousands of “technical committees” in which hundreds of thousands of experts (most of them engineers) create standards that constantly affect our lives—from the unique…
Lessons of a ‘Good’ Crisis
The current crisis has implications for the structure of world power. Some parts of the developing world have enjoyed a very ‘good’ crisis, with sustained economic growth and even increasing equity. Similarly, during the Great Depression, Third World countries that adopted less-orthodox policies did better than core countries. These relative successes helped shape a generation of thinking about economic policy. Unfortunately, policies that made s…
International Relations and Responsibility in an Increasingly Unequal World
Martha Nussbaum has provided a major service to the study and practice of international relations (IR) by articulating the moral claims made on states and international organizations by the fact of human capabilities. In return, something of what has been learned by scholars of IR can contribute to her project by considering the ways in which concrete international institutions (such as UNDP) have struggled with their international responsibiliti…
Symposium on Global Inequality and Teaching
Symposium on Global Inequality and Teaching: Taking Up the Challenge of Craig N. Murphy’s Presidential Address Jennifer Sterling‐Folker, Jennifer Sterling‐Folker University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James M. Scott, James M. Scott University of Nebraska at Kearney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar B. Welling Hall, B. Welling Hall Earlham College Se…
Afterword
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Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier
Lessons of Somalia for Future Multilateral Humanitarian Assistance Operations
Entangling Alliances
A System for Forecasting Strategic Crises
This article presents a system for forecasting increasing tension and war in the Middle East and illustrates to those studying crisis‐prone regions of the world an early warning system for predicting international tension. In the first part of the article are discussed the theory, methodology, and results obtained in testing the system, while the appendices present the more technical aspects. In the conclusion of this article it is held that cris…
What the Third World Wants
This article proposes one answer to the question of 'why Third World governments have adopted and supported the ideology underlying their proposals for a New International Economic Order'. While it may seem ambitious to try to assess what the Third World wants (many others have already tried), this attempt differs from some others in that it is particularly concerned with the ways beliefs (and beliefs about beliefs) affect conflict resolution
Why There Can Be No North-South Bargain
No resolution of the ongoing North-South conflict is in sight. Third World governments prefer to debate the conflict instead of trying to resolve it through reciprocal bargaining. Professor Murphy finds that debate since 1974 has indeed led to a certain mellowing of the Northern position. But he sees a serious impediment to any real progress in that the United States government cannot constructively participate in the debate the South wants witho…
A critical science of global relations
This article extends the current debate over "realism" and proposes an alternative to the rising neorealist paradigm. It argues for a problem‐solving orientation, identifying human needs, encouraging analysis across traditional "levels," and an expanded view of rationality. Scholars should that people suffering from deprivation have the capacity to understand their deprivation and respond to it. Studies of global relations can play a role in faci…
America's Quest for Supremacy and the Third World
Part 1 Ideology: Gramsci's understanding of ideology elements of common sense in America ideology and American foreign policy the case of foreign assistance Reagan and American common sense. Part 2 Supremacy: Gramsci's understanding of supremacy the Third World and the challenge to American supremacy force and consensus in the world economy force and consensus in international civil society
The New International Political Economy
Entangling Alliances
Frameworks for International Co-operation
International organization in world society. Part One: Between States - A conceptual typology of international organization The idea of co-ordination in international organization Co-ordination and co-operation in the CMEA Harmonization Association The parallel national action process Supranationalism - The power and authority of international institutions. Part Two: State Building Federalism: The conceptual setting Consociation From autonomy to …
Gramsci and international relations
Gramsci's concepts allow scholars to transcend some of the current debates dividing the field of international relations (IR) while preserving the insights of the major traditions, whether 'realist' or 'idealist', 'structural', or 'historical', at the same time that they help us break the habit of reifying the nation-state by turning our attention toward the deeper sources of social continuity and change. This paper discusses these benefits of em…
International Institutions, Decolonization, and Development
This article treats modern international institutions as means of regulating the lateral pressure generated by the industrial system. The linking roles played by post-war international institutions in decolonization and development should be thought of as part of a transnational political system regulating conflict in the vast international economic region that was formed among the industrialized states with market economies and their Third World…
Lessons of Somalia for Future Multilateral Humanitarian Assistance Operations
Transcending the State-Global Divide
Part 1: States and Regions in the Face of the Global Capitalist Crisis, A. Lipietz State and Society in International Relations, R. Palan. Part 2: World Economic Interpretation of European Politics, A. Gunder Frank The Reich Resurrected? - Continuity and Order in German Expansion, K. Van der Pijl The International Origins of South Korea's Export Orientation, B. Gills Swedish Social-Democracy and the World Market, L. Wilde The Infrastructure of th…
The Epistemology of Poverty and the Poverty of Epistemology in IPE
Seeing women, recognizing gender, recasting international relations
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Consciousness, myth and collective action
Many students of International Relations would consider Robert W. Cox's greatest contribution to be his opportune introduction of Antonio Gramsci's work to a field that seemed bent on forgetting its own traditions of rich, historicist theorising about fundamental social change. Gramsci offered a non-economistic way to understand fundamental questions about collective action at a time when the dominant liberal and ‘realist’ traditions began to emb…
Understanding IR
Randall D. Germain and Michael Kenny's valuable 'Engaging Gramsci: International Theory and the New Gramscians'Review of International Studies, 24:1 (1998), pp. 3-21. alerts Anglophone IR scholars to broader debates about Gramsci's theories that are rarely highlighted by scholars in the (somewhat misnamed) 'Italian School'. Just as Germain and Kenny have offered one way to contextualize Gramsci's contributions within the intellectual and social w…
Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier
Inequality, turmoil and democracy
International peace and security at a multilateral moment
Critical Theory and World Politics
This book represents the first attempt to bring together the leading critical theorists of world politics to discuss both the promise and the pitfalls of their work. The authors range broadly across the terrain of world politics, engaging with both theory and emancipatory practice. Critiques by two scholars from other IR traditions are also included. The result is a seminal statement of the critical theory approach to understanding world politics…
The 2001 Convention Theme and Call for Proposals
ISA Presidential Selection
During fall 2000, all ISA members will be asked to vote on a set of changes to the association's constitution. Most of the proposed changes are required to bring ISA's constitution up to date with current practices and association circumstances (for example, instead of having only the Editor of ISQ as a member of the Governing Council, one of the proposed changes adds the Editors of ISR and ISP to the council). In the course of examining and refl…
Global Governance
Journal Article Global Governance: Poorly done and Poorly Understood Get access Craig N. Murphy Craig N. Murphy 1Professor and Chair of Political Science, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, President of the International Studies Association Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 76, Issue 4, October 2000, Pages 789–803, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00165 Published: 16 December 20…
Symposium on Global Inequality and Teaching
Symposium on Global Inequality and Teaching: Taking Up the Challenge of Craig N. Murphy’s Presidential Address Jennifer Sterling‐Folker, Jennifer Sterling‐Folker University of Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James M. Scott, James M. Scott University of Nebraska at Kearney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar B. Welling Hall, B. Welling Hall Earlham College Se…
International Political Economy
International political economy (IPE) originated in the early 1970s. For almost 20 years it has been dominated by separate, largely non-communicating schools, one centred on scholarly institutions in Britain, the other associated with the US journal, International Organization (IO). In terms of the evolving norms of both economics and political science, both schools are surprisingly heterodox. Rather than developing strong systematic data collect…
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