An Anarcho-Pacifist Reading of International Relations

A Normative Critique of International Politics from the Confluence of Pacifism and Anarchism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9977078
AutoresAlexandre Christoyannopoulos (0000-0001-5133-3268, Loughborough University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen66
Número4
Fecha de publicación2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-8833 • E-ISSN: 1468-2478
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/isq/sqac070
OpenAlexW4312885042
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas85

Pacifism and anarchism have been until recently largely missing on the landscape of international relations (IR) theories, even though they help articulate valuable and nuanced reflections on core IR themes such as war and peace, the structure of the international order, and the multiple effects of political violence. In particular, an analysis grounded in the territory shared by pacifism and anarchism offers a focused vantage point from which an original contribution can be articulated around five main themes: the widespread fetishization of violence; the chronic sliding toward systemic militarism; the multifaceted manifestations of intersectional exploitation and domination enforced by states around the world; both current and potential alternative structurings of international politics; and reflections concerning political agency. This puts an anarcho-pacifist encounter with IR in a position to either develop further or dispute claims central to more established schools of IR theory. This article thus offers a normative reading of international politics, which adapts and develops arguments aired separately by anarchism and pacifism, demonstrates where they fruitfully overlap, develops anarcho-pacifism by extending its analysis specifically to international politics, and invites a reconsideration of established orthodoxies in IR theory by articulating a more radical, critical, and normative diagnosis of the Westphalian international order

Environmental ethics · Epistemology · International relations · International relations theory · Militarism · Normative · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Westphalian sovereignty · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · War, Ethics, and Justification