Decentering International Relations

Nayak, Meghana; Selbin, Eric

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“…I situate the article in the growing body of literature that takes the Western-centric character of much of international relations scholarship seriously and that attempts to offer alternative perspectives on how to discuss security (see for example Nayak and Selbin, 2010; Sabaratnam, 2013; Bilgin, 2010). The article provides a microscopic view of what global North–South military collaboration means ‘on the ground’ and of the processes by which it operates.…”

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Simulating, marketing, and playing war: US–Jordanian military collaboration and the politics of commercial security

Schuetze

2017

Security Dialogue

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The King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center (KASOTC) was financed and established by the US Department of Defense, is operated by a US private business, and is owned by the Jordanian army. It not only offers a base for the training of international Special Forces and Jordanian border guards, but also for military adventure holidays, corporate leadership programs, and stunt training for actors. This article provides an analysis of the processes and technologies involved in US–Jordanian military collaboration by investigating some of the ways in which war is simulated, marketed, and played at KASOTC. Particular focus is paid to the stark biopolitical judgments about the different worth of human subjects and their role in intersecting processes of militarization and commercialization. The article argues that US–Jordanian military collaboration at KASOTC is marked by the simultaneous blurring and reinforcement of boundaries, as commercial security is moralized and imagined moral hierarchies marketized. While war at KASOTC is an interactive and consumable event for some, it engenders deadly realities for others. The article is an empirically-grounded contribution to critical security studies based on interviews and observations made during a visit to KASOTC in early 2013.

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Simulating, marketing, and playing war: US–Jordanian military collaboration and the politics of commercial security

Schuetze

2017

Security Dialogue

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“…Studies of international relations have traditionally been state-and security-centred fields that have given prime attention to 'great powers' rather than micro, small or middle states (Ingebritsen et al, 2006;Nayak and Selbin, 2010). Although the period since the end of World War II has been marked by a growing number of small states, especially due to the break-up of European colonial empires and the Soviet Union, this has not been matched by scholarly attention to the roles and strategies of small states in international relations (Steinmetz and Wivel 2010).…”

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Peace-building as Small State Foreign Policy

Stokke¹

2012

International Studies

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This article examines the emergence and transformation of Norway's peace engagement in the context of changing international relations. Focusing on foreign policy discourses and practices, the article portrays peace engagement as value-based efforts to support resolution of distant intrastate conflicts, and a strategy to promote Norway's interests and influence in international relations. The article also argues that changing international relations after the turn of the century has challenged and reoriented Norway's peace engagement in a more realist direction. Foreign policy discourses and practices are increasingly based on a broad notion of interests that also includes ideals of peace, democracy and development. This means that peace engagement can support a domestic political consensus on foreign policy, and simultaneously promote Norway's standing, relevance and influence in international relations. Peace engagement has thus been institutionalized as a foreign policy that promotes peace while also addressing the challenges associated with smallness in international relations.

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“…It is therefore necessary to 'decentre' the concept of norm entrepreneurship away from 'global North/Western interests, institutions, and power'. 40 We attempt this in two ways. First, our focus shifts beyond the North/Western centre to detail the specific normative contributions of Chinese and Japanese entrepreneurship.…”

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China and Japan’s Quest for Great Power Status: Norm Entrepreneurship in Anti-Piracy Responses

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2012

International Relations

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In responding to piracy in the Gulf of Aden, both Chinese and Japanese policymakers have acted as norm entrepreneurs who intend to transform the dominant norms of international society. Chinese and Japanese norm entrepreneurship is grounded in the ways in which foreign policy actors construct and reconstruct their state identity. In China’s case, policymakers have projected China’s self-image as a responsible and benevolent Great Power that derives from the Chinese conception of Tianxia. Japanese foreign policy actors, on the other hand, have advanced the notion of Japan as a bridge that mediates between East and West, developing and developed states, members and non-members of international society. Although we do not advocate that Chinese or Japanese norm entrepreneurship should be accepted uncritically, we do maintain that there exist opportunities to combine and develop the multiple approaches that different states promote to problems. This article has shown that dealing with Somali piracy is one such case.

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Decentering International Relations

Cited by 66 publications

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Simulating, marketing, and playing war: US–Jordanian military collaboration and the politics of commercial security

Simulating, marketing, and playing war: US–Jordanian military collaboration and the politics of commercial security

Peace-building as Small State Foreign Policy

China and Japan’s Quest for Great Power Status: Norm Entrepreneurship in Anti-Piracy Responses

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