Nicholas Lee
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3974943 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nicholas Lee |
| PRENOMES | Nicholas |
| SOBRENOME | Lee |
| ASSINATURA | LEE N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9879-7609 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1966 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Child Ecologies in a Microbial World
All bodies—child, animal, plant—are bodies sustained by life processes. Human as well as animal and plant bodies coexist with a multiplicity of microbial life. As symbiotic partners, human bodies are ecosystems of microbial life in a microbial world. In this way, microbes cannot simply be seen as disease-causing and human bodies as hosts of human-only life. Simplistic notions of the child as a unitary and social subject and the image of the agent…
Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020
Class is often neglected as a factor influencing foreign policy. While recent research explains the foreign policy positions of states in terms of the preferences of a ruling regime’s key constituencies of support, these accounts have not investigated how inter-state relations are influenced by specific class-based social forces. Influenced by liberal pluralism, they are agnostic about the role of class. By contrast, neo-Gramscian approaches conc…
The endurance of the G77 in international relations
The voting record of states of the global South at the United Nations General Assembly indicates they are dissatisfied with the US-led liberal international order. Against existing interpretations, this article challenges the notion that states belonging to the Group of 77 (G77) express discontent because they are illiberal and undemocratic. Instead, the article argues that the G77 is composed of a diverse group of states influenced by a common S…
More and more revolutions, but do they succeed
The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion by Mark R. Beissinger. Princeton University Press. 592 pp. £28 We are living in an unacknowledged age of revolution, but revolutions no longer resemble the classical social revolutions that were such a fixture of the political imagination between 1789 and 1989. Rather than violent uprisings led by a vanguard seeking to overturn and rebuild society, contemporary revolu…
Of Stag Hunts and secret societies
In many circumstances where multiple, autonomous actors exist, cooperation is only a viable strategy if other actors also pursue a strategy of cooperation. Such situations can be characterised in terms of the Stag Hunt, based on a parable told by Rousseau. Although traditionally interpreted as a device for understanding how mutually beneficial cooperation can emerge, Harrison Wagner points out that would-be exploiters must overcome similar proble…
To Escalate, or Not to Escalate? Private Military and Security Companies and Conflict Severity
The existing literature is unclear about whether private military and security companies (PMSCs) are a cause of increased conflict severity, or rather are simply hired within more severe conflicts. We argue that PMSCs do increase conflict severity, yet this is the result of an escalation strategy by states to regain territory from rebels. If contracted, PMSCs either substitute for host nation forces, or free up such conventional forces to engage …
The Brandt Line after forty years
The Brandt Line is a way of visualising the world that highlights the disparities and inequalities between the wealthy North and the poorer Global South. Forty years after its popularisation as part of a call for global reform, is the Brandt Line now a misleading way of representing world politics? This article assesses whether the Global South has lost its distinctiveness and coherence relative to the North since 1980. Existing assessments of gl…
Conflict and the separateness of peoples
The discipline-defining claim that anarchy leads inevitably to security-competition and war between states is unsustainable. This article investigates whether the concept of multiplicity can offer a reintegrated account of insecurity in world politics. As highlighted by rational choice approaches, substantive conflicts of interest are a necessary condition for organized violence to be a permanent possibility within, across and between societies. …
Why the English school needs conflict studies
The English School tradition offers a compelling framework for understanding war as an institution within an international society constructed by states. Nonetheless, analyses of the causes of inter-state insecurity offered by English School scholars are underspecified and fail to develop distinct middle-range theories based on these core insights. These problems can be remedied through an engagement with the subfield of quantitative conflict stu…
International society is to international system as world society is to …? Systemic and societal processes in English School theory
The sources of social power vol. 3
Michael Mann Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 9781107028654 (hbk), 510 pp, Michael Mann Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 9781107028678 (hbk), 492 pp With the publi
Structural Inequality, Quasi-rents and the Democratic Peace
This article employs the neo-Ricardian concept of quasi-rents – temporary above-market returns – to vindicate the structuralist claim that patterns of international order are shaped by global inequality and the transnational division of labour. Developing a framework linking the distribution of quasi-rents within the global economy to the process of class formation, the article examines the implications for the influential ‘social market democrac…
The dimensions of the divide
Recent attempts at developing social-structural accounts of the international order have suggested that the international system might be analysed in terms of patterns of vertical differentiation and stratification. Taking up this challenge, this article argues that inequality should be understood as part of the ‘deep structure’ of the international system rather than in terms of the attributes of individual states. It suggests that we can unders…
Power in the 21st century
Michael Mann, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Polity Press, 2011, ISBN13 9780745653228 (hbk), ISBN13 9780745653235 (pbk), 180 pp Alongside other neo-Weberian scholars such as Charles Tilly and Theda Sko
Stikhotvoreniia
Mikhail Sholokhov
Fathers and Sons
Introduction to Russian Realism
The endurance of the G77 in international relations
The voting record of states of the global South at the United Nations General Assembly indicates they are dissatisfied with the US-led liberal international order. Against existing interpretations, this article challenges the notion that states belonging to the Group of 77 (G77) express discontent because they are illiberal and undemocratic. Instead, the article argues that the G77 is composed of a diverse group of states influenced by a common S…
The Brandt Line after forty years
The Brandt Line is a way of visualising the world that highlights the disparities and inequalities between the wealthy North and the poorer Global South. Forty years after its popularisation as part of a call for global reform, is the Brandt Line now a misleading way of representing world politics? This article assesses whether the Global South has lost its distinctiveness and coherence relative to the North since 1980. Existing assessments of gl…
To Escalate, or Not to Escalate? Private Military and Security Companies and Conflict Severity
The existing literature is unclear about whether private military and security companies (PMSCs) are a cause of increased conflict severity, or rather are simply hired within more severe conflicts. We argue that PMSCs do increase conflict severity, yet this is the result of an escalation strategy by states to regain territory from rebels. If contracted, PMSCs either substitute for host nation forces, or free up such conventional forces to engage …
Power in the 21st century
Michael Mann, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Polity Press, 2011, ISBN13 9780745653228 (hbk), ISBN13 9780745653235 (pbk), 180 pp Alongside other neo-Weberian scholars such as Charles Tilly and Theda Sko
Of Stag Hunts and secret societies
In many circumstances where multiple, autonomous actors exist, cooperation is only a viable strategy if other actors also pursue a strategy of cooperation. Such situations can be characterised in terms of the Stag Hunt, based on a parable told by Rousseau. Although traditionally interpreted as a device for understanding how mutually beneficial cooperation can emerge, Harrison Wagner points out that would-be exploiters must overcome similar proble…
Why the English school needs conflict studies
The English School tradition offers a compelling framework for understanding war as an institution within an international society constructed by states. Nonetheless, analyses of the causes of inter-state insecurity offered by English School scholars are underspecified and fail to develop distinct middle-range theories based on these core insights. These problems can be remedied through an engagement with the subfield of quantitative conflict stu…
The dimensions of the divide
Recent attempts at developing social-structural accounts of the international order have suggested that the international system might be analysed in terms of patterns of vertical differentiation and stratification. Taking up this challenge, this article argues that inequality should be understood as part of the ‘deep structure’ of the international system rather than in terms of the attributes of individual states. It suggests that we can unders…
Introduction to Russian Realism
Fathers and Sons
Mikhail Sholokhov
Stikhotvoreniia
The dimensions of the divide
Recent attempts at developing social-structural accounts of the international order have suggested that the international system might be analysed in terms of patterns of vertical differentiation and stratification. Taking up this challenge, this article argues that inequality should be understood as part of the ‘deep structure’ of the international system rather than in terms of the attributes of individual states. It suggests that we can unders…
Power in the 21st century
Michael Mann, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Polity Press, 2011, ISBN13 9780745653228 (hbk), ISBN13 9780745653235 (pbk), 180 pp Alongside other neo-Weberian scholars such as Charles Tilly and Theda Sko
The sources of social power vol. 3
Michael Mann Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 9781107028654 (hbk), 510 pp, Michael Mann Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 9781107028678 (hbk), 492 pp With the publi
Structural Inequality, Quasi-rents and the Democratic Peace
This article employs the neo-Ricardian concept of quasi-rents – temporary above-market returns – to vindicate the structuralist claim that patterns of international order are shaped by global inequality and the transnational division of labour. Developing a framework linking the distribution of quasi-rents within the global economy to the process of class formation, the article examines the implications for the influential ‘social market democrac…
International society is to international system as world society is to …? Systemic and societal processes in English School theory
Conflict and the separateness of peoples
The discipline-defining claim that anarchy leads inevitably to security-competition and war between states is unsustainable. This article investigates whether the concept of multiplicity can offer a reintegrated account of insecurity in world politics. As highlighted by rational choice approaches, substantive conflicts of interest are a necessary condition for organized violence to be a permanent possibility within, across and between societies. …
Why the English school needs conflict studies
The English School tradition offers a compelling framework for understanding war as an institution within an international society constructed by states. Nonetheless, analyses of the causes of inter-state insecurity offered by English School scholars are underspecified and fail to develop distinct middle-range theories based on these core insights. These problems can be remedied through an engagement with the subfield of quantitative conflict stu…
To Escalate, or Not to Escalate? Private Military and Security Companies and Conflict Severity
The existing literature is unclear about whether private military and security companies (PMSCs) are a cause of increased conflict severity, or rather are simply hired within more severe conflicts. We argue that PMSCs do increase conflict severity, yet this is the result of an escalation strategy by states to regain territory from rebels. If contracted, PMSCs either substitute for host nation forces, or free up such conventional forces to engage …
The Brandt Line after forty years
The Brandt Line is a way of visualising the world that highlights the disparities and inequalities between the wealthy North and the poorer Global South. Forty years after its popularisation as part of a call for global reform, is the Brandt Line now a misleading way of representing world politics? This article assesses whether the Global South has lost its distinctiveness and coherence relative to the North since 1980. Existing assessments of gl…
More and more revolutions, but do they succeed
The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion by Mark R. Beissinger. Princeton University Press. 592 pp. £28 We are living in an unacknowledged age of revolution, but revolutions no longer resemble the classical social revolutions that were such a fixture of the political imagination between 1789 and 1989. Rather than violent uprisings led by a vanguard seeking to overturn and rebuild society, contemporary revolu…
Of Stag Hunts and secret societies
In many circumstances where multiple, autonomous actors exist, cooperation is only a viable strategy if other actors also pursue a strategy of cooperation. Such situations can be characterised in terms of the Stag Hunt, based on a parable told by Rousseau. Although traditionally interpreted as a device for understanding how mutually beneficial cooperation can emerge, Harrison Wagner points out that would-be exploiters must overcome similar proble…
The endurance of the G77 in international relations
The voting record of states of the global South at the United Nations General Assembly indicates they are dissatisfied with the US-led liberal international order. Against existing interpretations, this article challenges the notion that states belonging to the Group of 77 (G77) express discontent because they are illiberal and undemocratic. Instead, the article argues that the G77 is composed of a diverse group of states influenced by a common S…
Is world politics class politics? States, social forces and voting in the United Nations General Assembly 1946–2020
Class is often neglected as a factor influencing foreign policy. While recent research explains the foreign policy positions of states in terms of the preferences of a ruling regime’s key constituencies of support, these accounts have not investigated how inter-state relations are influenced by specific class-based social forces. Influenced by liberal pluralism, they are agnostic about the role of class. By contrast, neo-Gramscian approaches conc…
Child Ecologies in a Microbial World
All bodies—child, animal, plant—are bodies sustained by life processes. Human as well as animal and plant bodies coexist with a multiplicity of microbial life. As symbiotic partners, human bodies are ecosystems of microbial life in a microbial world. In this way, microbes cannot simply be seen as disease-causing and human bodies as hosts of human-only life. Simplistic notions of the child as a unitary and social subject and the image of the agent…
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