International Relations in the Post-Globalisation Era

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ID6353753
AutoresMatt Coward (0000-0003-1336-4017, autor correspondente), Martin Coward
Ano2006
Volume26
Fascículo1
Páginas54-61
Data de publicação2006-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolitics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0032-3268 • E-ISSN: 1467-9256
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9256.2006.00251.x
OpenAlexW2146235300
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas11

This article addresses the question of whether the traditional conceptual problematics that have defined the discipline of international relations (IR) are adequate to the contemporary global order. I propose that the sterile choice between the theoretical tropes of statism and globalisation which has defined recent IR scholarship prevents getting to grips with the ‘post-globalisation’ nature of phenomena such as al-Qa'eda terrorism and the war on terror launched in response. In this light it is necessary to ask whether the state of the art in IR needs critical re-evaluation. I examine the conceptual problematics that delineate IR as a distinct intellectual terrain. These are identified as the problems of morphology, governance and violence in the global order. I then outline the orthodox, statist resolution of these problematics. The inadequacy of such a resolution is noted and an outline proposal for recasting the discipline of IR is advanced. I conclude by noting that while the conceptual tropes historically deployed to understand global politics might be inadequate, it is not necessary to discard IR as a distinct intellectual terrain. Rather a revivification of this terrain beyond statism and globalism is required

Economics · Epistemology · Geopolitics · Global governance · Globalism · Globalization · International relations · International relations theory · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Statism · Terrorism · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance