Alexander D Barder
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4085478 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alexander D Barder |
| PRENOMES | Alexander D |
| SOBRENOME | Barder |
| ASSINATURA | BARDER A D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9914-923X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Things Just Don’t Make Sense”
This research note explores how global conspiracy theories contribute to the formation of fascistic representations of social reality. Instead of dismissing fascist worldviews as merely irrational or pathological, I focus on how their nonsensical form actively generates meaning. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of sense developed in The Logic of Sense, I show that nonsense is not the absence of meaning but a creative and productive force th…
Conspiratorial imaginaries of the right
International Relations
Featuring 16 new entries, International Relations: The Key Concepts, now in its fourth edition, is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs. Comprehensive and up to date, it introduces the most important themes in international relations. New entries include the following: Anthropocene Authoritarian populism Borders Brexit Dignity Hierarchy Intersectionality Pandemic Postmodern warfare Race war Resilience Featuring sugge…
Global War and the Racial Imaginary
Fascism in international relations and history
Forum
This forum takes up the question of how to do work in Historical International Relations (IR). Especially in the past decade, scholars have debated what modes of analysis are best suited to this sort of work and how Historical IR relates to the disciplines of History and International Relations. The contributors to this forum intervene in these debates and converge on three issues facing Historical IR—questions of methods, ontology, and disciplin…
The West and its Radical Others
This contribution explores François Debrix’s Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping on the question of radical alterity. I argue that Debrix presents a unique and prescient analysis of alterity in the context of the war in Bosnia that highlights an ideological aspect of late twentieth century ‘disciplinary neoliberalism’. For Debrix, the visualization and representation of genocidal racial violence in Bosnia becomes a form of seductive voyeurism. As I argue…
Global Race War
"Race War and the Global Imaginary, 1800-Present explores the historical connections between race and violence from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Barder shows how beginning with the Haitian Revolution and nineteenth century settler colonialism the development of the very idea of global order was based on racial hierarchy. The intensification of racial violence happened when the global racial hierarchy appeared to be in crisi…
Scientific racism, race war and the global racial imaginary
The premise of this paper is the elucidation of a different ontology of global politics and order of the nineteenth century. International relations theory takes for granted a largely ahistorical state-centric ontology, which reifies a specific Eurocentric state and state-system as the embodiment of global politics. Instead, I focus on an alternative ontology of race, racial hierarchy and racial difference as significant for defining the content …
Race War and the Global Imperial Order
The centenary of the genocide of the Ottoman Armenians was commemorated in 2015 by the world‐wide Armenian diaspora community, as well as within Armenia itself. This article critically examines the ways in which the memory of the genocide of the Armenians has been framed in terms of race, with Western observers from 1915 on applying racialized discourses to the Ottomans and the events of the Armenian genocide. The article considers the evolution …
Race and International Relations
In his 1895 text Principes de Colonisation et de Législation Coloniale, the French jurist Arthur Girault stipulated that “The progressive extinction of inferior races in the face of civilized races ... or the crushing of the weak by the strong is the condition for progress” (quoted in Le Cour Grandmaison 2008, 219n2, my translation). Heinrich von Treitschke, the doyen of nineteenth century German realpolitik, whose influence would be felt in many…
Neo-Materialist Ecologies and Global Systemic Crises
Liberal international relations theory largely rests on the assumption that the contemporary international liberal order is robust enough to withstand crises of political authority and/or economic slumps. Yet, this raises a central question: what is a crisis in the deep principles of a global political and economic order? In this essay, I seek to rethink crisis theory in light of prevailing assumptions about the longevity of the contemporary libe…
The closing of the American mind
Senior ‘American School’ International Relations theorists — John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, Robert Keohane, and others — have evinced a growing concern about a rise of technocratic hypothesis-testing, and a parallel decline in grand theory. We share many of their concerns; yet, we also find such discussions deeply unsatisfying. Grand theory descends into ‘technocracy’ because of reifying and depoliticizing processes deeply woven into both tho…
American Hegemony Comes Home
International theorists have long argued over the longevity of American hegemony and whether or not the American-centered international order is currently in crisis. What remains largely missing in many of the analyses of the history and present of American hegemony is an examination of how maintaining global hegemony affects or has affected domestic American political and economic institutions. Looking back at the early 1970s, I examine the nexu…
The World Is Too Much with Us’
International Relations’ constructivist turn – that body of approaches emerging in the late 1980s/early 1990s in which international outcomes were held to be predicated upon complex social arrangements, rules, norms, institutions, language and culture – emerged from a unique historical and intellectual moment. Initially, this theoretical turn was deeply committed to reflexivity and circumspection: since events were held to be contingent and theor…
Beyond Biopolitics
'Beyond Biopolitics constitutes a truly serious attempt to think about the unthinkable.' Guy Lancaster, Political Studies Review: 2014 VOL 12, 93. Beyond Biopolitics exposes the conceptual limits of critical biopolitical approaches to violence, war, and terror in the post-9/11-War on Terror era. This volume shows that such popular international political theories rely upon frames of representation that leave out of focus a series of extreme forms…
Agonal sovereignty
The notion of biopolitical sovereignty and the theory of the state of exception are perspectives derived from Carl Schmitt’s thought and Michel Foucault’s writings that have been popularized by critical political theorists like Giorgio Agamben and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri of late. This article argues that these perspectives are not sufficient analytical points of departure for a critique of the contemporary politics of terror, violence and…
Rethinking International History, Theory and the Event with Hannah Arendt
This paper reconsiders the event in International Relations (IR) through the writings of Hannah Arendt. The event has for too long been neglected in IR; international events are overwhelmingly conceived as mere happenings that have meaning only within the process and temporal structure of the theory from which they are understood, and as holding no or only limited meaning in and of themselves. In her work on political theory and her reflections o…
Lessons from the Grand Inquisitor
Lessons from the Grand InquisitorCarl Schmitt and the Providential Enemy1 Alexander D. Barder (bio) Kam Shapiro. Carl Schmitt and the Intensification of Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2008. Pp. 131. $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-742-53341-7 Carl Schmitt. Constitutional Theory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2008. Pp. 488. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-822-34070-6 [W]e must recognize that, according to [the theologico-political] schema…
Nothing to Fear but Fear
Journal Article Nothing to Fear but Fear: Governmentality and the Biopolitical Production of Terror Get access François Debrix, François Debrix Florida International University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alexander D. Barder Alexander D. Barder Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 3, Issue 4, December…
The Gravity of History
The closing of the American mind
Senior ‘American School’ International Relations theorists — John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, Robert Keohane, and others — have evinced a growing concern about a rise of technocratic hypothesis-testing, and a parallel decline in grand theory. We share many of their concerns; yet, we also find such discussions deeply unsatisfying. Grand theory descends into ‘technocracy’ because of reifying and depoliticizing processes deeply woven into both tho…
The World Is Too Much with Us’
International Relations’ constructivist turn – that body of approaches emerging in the late 1980s/early 1990s in which international outcomes were held to be predicated upon complex social arrangements, rules, norms, institutions, language and culture – emerged from a unique historical and intellectual moment. Initially, this theoretical turn was deeply committed to reflexivity and circumspection: since events were held to be contingent and theor…
Nothing to Fear but Fear
Journal Article Nothing to Fear but Fear: Governmentality and the Biopolitical Production of Terror Get access François Debrix, François Debrix Florida International University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alexander D. Barder Alexander D. Barder Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 3, Issue 4, December…
Scientific racism, race war and the global racial imaginary
The premise of this paper is the elucidation of a different ontology of global politics and order of the nineteenth century. International relations theory takes for granted a largely ahistorical state-centric ontology, which reifies a specific Eurocentric state and state-system as the embodiment of global politics. Instead, I focus on an alternative ontology of race, racial hierarchy and racial difference as significant for defining the content …
Forum
This forum takes up the question of how to do work in Historical International Relations (IR). Especially in the past decade, scholars have debated what modes of analysis are best suited to this sort of work and how Historical IR relates to the disciplines of History and International Relations. The contributors to this forum intervene in these debates and converge on three issues facing Historical IR—questions of methods, ontology, and disciplin…
Race and International Relations
In his 1895 text Principes de Colonisation et de Législation Coloniale, the French jurist Arthur Girault stipulated that “The progressive extinction of inferior races in the face of civilized races ... or the crushing of the weak by the strong is the condition for progress” (quoted in Le Cour Grandmaison 2008, 219n2, my translation). Heinrich von Treitschke, the doyen of nineteenth century German realpolitik, whose influence would be felt in many…
Neo-Materialist Ecologies and Global Systemic Crises
Liberal international relations theory largely rests on the assumption that the contemporary international liberal order is robust enough to withstand crises of political authority and/or economic slumps. Yet, this raises a central question: what is a crisis in the deep principles of a global political and economic order? In this essay, I seek to rethink crisis theory in light of prevailing assumptions about the longevity of the contemporary libe…
American Hegemony Comes Home
International theorists have long argued over the longevity of American hegemony and whether or not the American-centered international order is currently in crisis. What remains largely missing in many of the analyses of the history and present of American hegemony is an examination of how maintaining global hegemony affects or has affected domestic American political and economic institutions. Looking back at the early 1970s, I examine the nexu…
Agonal sovereignty
The notion of biopolitical sovereignty and the theory of the state of exception are perspectives derived from Carl Schmitt’s thought and Michel Foucault’s writings that have been popularized by critical political theorists like Giorgio Agamben and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri of late. This article argues that these perspectives are not sufficient analytical points of departure for a critique of the contemporary politics of terror, violence and…
Rethinking International History, Theory and the Event with Hannah Arendt
This paper reconsiders the event in International Relations (IR) through the writings of Hannah Arendt. The event has for too long been neglected in IR; international events are overwhelmingly conceived as mere happenings that have meaning only within the process and temporal structure of the theory from which they are understood, and as holding no or only limited meaning in and of themselves. In her work on political theory and her reflections o…
The Gravity of History
Lessons from the Grand Inquisitor
Lessons from the Grand InquisitorCarl Schmitt and the Providential Enemy1 Alexander D. Barder (bio) Kam Shapiro. Carl Schmitt and the Intensification of Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2008. Pp. 131. $60.00. ISBN: 978-0-742-53341-7 Carl Schmitt. Constitutional Theory. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2008. Pp. 488. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-822-34070-6 [W]e must recognize that, according to [the theologico-political] schema…
Nothing to Fear but Fear
Journal Article Nothing to Fear but Fear: Governmentality and the Biopolitical Production of Terror Get access François Debrix, François Debrix Florida International University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alexander D. Barder Alexander D. Barder Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 3, Issue 4, December…
Rethinking International History, Theory and the Event with Hannah Arendt
This paper reconsiders the event in International Relations (IR) through the writings of Hannah Arendt. The event has for too long been neglected in IR; international events are overwhelmingly conceived as mere happenings that have meaning only within the process and temporal structure of the theory from which they are understood, and as holding no or only limited meaning in and of themselves. In her work on political theory and her reflections o…
Beyond Biopolitics
'Beyond Biopolitics constitutes a truly serious attempt to think about the unthinkable.' Guy Lancaster, Political Studies Review: 2014 VOL 12, 93. Beyond Biopolitics exposes the conceptual limits of critical biopolitical approaches to violence, war, and terror in the post-9/11-War on Terror era. This volume shows that such popular international political theories rely upon frames of representation that leave out of focus a series of extreme forms…
Agonal sovereignty
The notion of biopolitical sovereignty and the theory of the state of exception are perspectives derived from Carl Schmitt’s thought and Michel Foucault’s writings that have been popularized by critical political theorists like Giorgio Agamben and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri of late. This article argues that these perspectives are not sufficient analytical points of departure for a critique of the contemporary politics of terror, violence and…
The World Is Too Much with Us’
International Relations’ constructivist turn – that body of approaches emerging in the late 1980s/early 1990s in which international outcomes were held to be predicated upon complex social arrangements, rules, norms, institutions, language and culture – emerged from a unique historical and intellectual moment. Initially, this theoretical turn was deeply committed to reflexivity and circumspection: since events were held to be contingent and theor…
American Hegemony Comes Home
International theorists have long argued over the longevity of American hegemony and whether or not the American-centered international order is currently in crisis. What remains largely missing in many of the analyses of the history and present of American hegemony is an examination of how maintaining global hegemony affects or has affected domestic American political and economic institutions. Looking back at the early 1970s, I examine the nexu…
The closing of the American mind
Senior ‘American School’ International Relations theorists — John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, Robert Keohane, and others — have evinced a growing concern about a rise of technocratic hypothesis-testing, and a parallel decline in grand theory. We share many of their concerns; yet, we also find such discussions deeply unsatisfying. Grand theory descends into ‘technocracy’ because of reifying and depoliticizing processes deeply woven into both tho…
Neo-Materialist Ecologies and Global Systemic Crises
Liberal international relations theory largely rests on the assumption that the contemporary international liberal order is robust enough to withstand crises of political authority and/or economic slumps. Yet, this raises a central question: what is a crisis in the deep principles of a global political and economic order? In this essay, I seek to rethink crisis theory in light of prevailing assumptions about the longevity of the contemporary libe…
Race War and the Global Imperial Order
The centenary of the genocide of the Ottoman Armenians was commemorated in 2015 by the world‐wide Armenian diaspora community, as well as within Armenia itself. This article critically examines the ways in which the memory of the genocide of the Armenians has been framed in terms of race, with Western observers from 1915 on applying racialized discourses to the Ottomans and the events of the Armenian genocide. The article considers the evolution …
Race and International Relations
In his 1895 text Principes de Colonisation et de Législation Coloniale, the French jurist Arthur Girault stipulated that “The progressive extinction of inferior races in the face of civilized races ... or the crushing of the weak by the strong is the condition for progress” (quoted in Le Cour Grandmaison 2008, 219n2, my translation). Heinrich von Treitschke, the doyen of nineteenth century German realpolitik, whose influence would be felt in many…
Scientific racism, race war and the global racial imaginary
The premise of this paper is the elucidation of a different ontology of global politics and order of the nineteenth century. International relations theory takes for granted a largely ahistorical state-centric ontology, which reifies a specific Eurocentric state and state-system as the embodiment of global politics. Instead, I focus on an alternative ontology of race, racial hierarchy and racial difference as significant for defining the content …
The West and its Radical Others
This contribution explores François Debrix’s Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping on the question of radical alterity. I argue that Debrix presents a unique and prescient analysis of alterity in the context of the war in Bosnia that highlights an ideological aspect of late twentieth century ‘disciplinary neoliberalism’. For Debrix, the visualization and representation of genocidal racial violence in Bosnia becomes a form of seductive voyeurism. As I argue…
Global Race War
"Race War and the Global Imaginary, 1800-Present explores the historical connections between race and violence from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Barder shows how beginning with the Haitian Revolution and nineteenth century settler colonialism the development of the very idea of global order was based on racial hierarchy. The intensification of racial violence happened when the global racial hierarchy appeared to be in crisi…
Fascism in international relations and history
Forum
This forum takes up the question of how to do work in Historical International Relations (IR). Especially in the past decade, scholars have debated what modes of analysis are best suited to this sort of work and how Historical IR relates to the disciplines of History and International Relations. The contributors to this forum intervene in these debates and converge on three issues facing Historical IR—questions of methods, ontology, and disciplin…
International Relations
Featuring 16 new entries, International Relations: The Key Concepts, now in its fourth edition, is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs. Comprehensive and up to date, it introduces the most important themes in international relations. New entries include the following: Anthropocene Authoritarian populism Borders Brexit Dignity Hierarchy Intersectionality Pandemic Postmodern warfare Race war Resilience Featuring sugge…
Global War and the Racial Imaginary
Conspiratorial imaginaries of the right
Things Just Don’t Make Sense”
This research note explores how global conspiracy theories contribute to the formation of fascistic representations of social reality. Instead of dismissing fascist worldviews as merely irrational or pathological, I focus on how their nonsensical form actively generates meaning. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of sense developed in The Logic of Sense, I show that nonsense is not the absence of meaning but a creative and productive force th…
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