How can we criticize international practices?

Schindler, Sebastian; Wille, Tobias

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“…The question about how we can study practices has fueled protracted debates among IR scholars (Adler-Nissen, 2014;Andersen and Neumann, 2012;Bueger, 2014;Bueger and Gadinger, 2018;Cornut, 2015b;Kusterman, 2016;Pouliot, 2007Pouliot, , 2012Pouliot, , 2014Schindler and Wille, 2019;Walter, 2019). We contribute to this literature by looking at how the analysis of written documents-diplomatic cables, in our example-can uncover practices, habits, culture, and socializing processes with all the consequences they entail in the international realm.…”

Section: International Practice Theory and The Study Of Documentsmentioning

confidence: 98%

How can documents speak about practices? Practice tracing, the Wikileaks cables, and diplomatic culture

Cornut¹,

Zamaróczy²

2020

Cooperation and Conflict

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Practice theorists favor interviews and participant observations in their study. Using insights from anthropological works on bureaucratic texts, in this article we develop methodological tools to complement these interpretive methods of data collection. We suggest a way to trace practices by systematically looking through both the content of documents and their form. We probe this approach with an analysis of 408 diplomatic cables sent by the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2005–2009 and subsequently released by Wikileaks. We draw on these documents to tell two related stories about diplomatic practices: the first about epistemic practices and how the cables privilege certain voices and types of knowledge over others, and the second about diplomatic culture, where the cables serve as evidence of the powerful socialization processes that diplomats are subject to. This contributes to International Relations (IR) with a new approach for systematically analyzing written documents to uncover international practices.

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Section: International Practice Theory and The Study Of Documentsmentioning

confidence: 98%

How can documents speak about practices? Practice tracing, the Wikileaks cables, and diplomatic culture

Cornut¹,

Zamaróczy²

2020

Cooperation and Conflict

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“…This literature argues that realities in international political life are constituted not only through words but also routines and practices (e.g. Hopf, 2018; Schindler and Wille, 2019). The least agential of those accounts (focusing on habits) point to the automaticity and repetitiveness of certain behavior in global politics (Hopf, 2010).…”

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International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other

Boon

2022

European Journal of International Relations

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How should one understand the construction of a state’s identity in the international system—its international identity? In this article, I attempt to provide richer answers. Drawing insights from social psychology, specifically Social Identity Theory and Identity Theory, I provide a micro-account of identity construction to better specify the mechanisms and logics through which international identity is constructed. This framework proposes the following general arguments about international identity formation. First, the construction of international identity is interpreted as a process of role negotiation between the state Self and relevant Other, animated by the mechanisms of self-categorization, alter’s casting, and role appraisal. Second, the collective motivations of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and self-consistency drive state identity change or continuity. As a plausibility probe, I apply the framework to a current analysis of China’s construction of an international identity as a “responsible” power in recent years, with a corresponding focus on the United States as the primary Other.

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“…But this similarity should not be overstressed. An important difference is due to the fact that the former is closer to the phenomenological view of the social world and, unlike Bourdieu (Schindler and Wille 2019), is less mistrustful of practitioners' own ability of theory-making, based on everyday experience (Jurt 2017). Empiriomonism (phenomenological Marxism) he developed meant the introduction of a conception of socially organised (contrasted with individual psychic) experience, focused on interactive practices culturally united groups of people would be involved in.…”

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On the Norms and Habits of the European Union as a Meta-organisation

Strezhneva

2020

Croat. int. relat. rev. (Online)

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With the aim of methodological reflection, this article analyses the three approaches (realist, constructivist and relational) in international relations theory most commonly employed to study foreign policy and the global influence of the European Union. Pivotal notions such as 'agency', 'identity', 'norms', 'system' and 'practice' provide us with navigation points between these approaches, enabling us to achieve a clearer impression of the many different meanings these terms can contain. These meanings, in their turn, fix the direction, limitations and scope of any concrete theoretic analysis. This article is meant to draw particular attention to Bourdieuvian practice theory and Alexander Bogdanov's tektology as two differing variants of relationism, with a view to overcoming certain deficiencies in application to the studies of the EU of methodological individualism, as employed in more 'traditional' theories. To illustrate the relationalist way of theorising when dealing with the paradoxes of the EU external policies and global role, a follow-up interpretation, based on tektology, is given in conclusion to the resilience turn in the EU global strategy.

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How can we criticize international practices?

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

How can documents speak about practices? Practice tracing, the Wikileaks cables, and diplomatic culture

How can documents speak about practices? Practice tracing, the Wikileaks cables, and diplomatic culture

International identity construction: China’s pursuit of the responsible power identity and the American Other

On the Norms and Habits of the European Union as a Meta-organisation

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