IR theory and Area Studies: a plea for displaced knowledge about international politics

Kaczmarska, Katarzyna; Ortmann, Stefanie

doi:10.1057/s41268-021-00246-8

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“…As has been argued, the origins of AS as a discipline are intrinsically located within the racialized, geopolitical understanding of theory and foreign policy of the Cold War years, which not by chance coincided with the (beginning of the) dissolution of major Western empires. 100 Even before then, AS started placing roots in the European scientific community through the studies of geographies, societies, traditions and behaviours of the populations subjugated (or to be subjugated) by the imperial metropoles. At the end of World War II, Hans Morgenthau claimed that 'Area Studies, both historically and analytically, form a part of that field of knowledge which is called international relations'.…”

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English School Special Section

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Zhang

et al. 2023

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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This is a series of solicited articles requested by the editors of Vol. 51, emerging from a roundtable discussion held at the 2022 International Studies Association Convention. Each short contribution seeks to demonstrate the newest research of the English School of International Relations. These contributions tackle key questions including: the decline of liberal hegemony, the rise of China, the divide between soldaristic and pluralistic ethics, the engagement of the English School with Area Studies, theoretical approaches to grounding English School research and an investigation of the English School’s intellectual legacy.

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“…De sentral-og østeuropeiske landene og deres internasjonale politikk har i stor grad vaert oversett i IR-litteraturen, som ofte tar utgangspunkt i Vesten og stormaktene (Kaczmarska & Ortmann, 2021). Ikke bare Russland og Ukraina, men hele regionen beskrives fortsatt ofte med betegnelser basert på Sovjettiden: «post-sovjet», «post-sosialistisk» eller «post-kommunistisk».…”

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Russlandsforskere, hva nå?

Fjæstad

Naterstad²

2022

Internasjonal Politikk

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Russlands krig mot Ukraina har enorme konsekvenser, først og fremst for Ukraina, men også for Russland og Russlands andre nabostater. Krigen har ikke bare kastet om på europeisk og norsk sikkerhets- og utenrikspolitikk, den vil ha store konsekvenser også for den norske forskningen på, og kunnskapen om, Russland. Mulighetene for forskning i Russland har blitt stadig mer begrenset over flere år, og etter februar 2022 er døren nærmest helt stengt. Samtidig er kunnskap om Russland viktig for Norge, som deler grense og forvalter kritiske ressurser i samarbeid med Russland. Slik vil det fortsette å være. Spørsmålet nå er hvordan denne kunnskapen skal skapes og oppdateres, gitt at rammebetingelsene som den norske forskningen på Russland de siste 30 årene har blitt produsert under, har endret seg dramatisk. Hvordan skal vi oppdatere norsk kunnskap om Russland i årene fremover? Hvilke metoder og data er tilgjengelige, og hva kan vi forvente av disse? Abstract in EnglishWhat Now, Russologists?Russia’s war against Ukraine has enormous consequences. First and foremost for Ukraine, but also for Russia and its neighboring states. The war has not only changed European and Norwegian security and foreign policies, it will also have a significant impact on Norwegian research on and knowledge about Russia. The opportunities for doing research in Russia have become more limited in recent years. After February 2022, it has become impossible. At the same time, knowledge about Russia is important for Norway, which shares a border and administers critical resources in cooperation with Russia. This will continue to be the case. The question now is how this knowledge is to be created given that the framework conditions under which Norwegian research on Russia has been produced during the last 30 years have dramatically changed. How are we going to update Norwegian knowledge about Russia in the coming years? What methods and data are available, and what can we expect from these?

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“…In doing this, our article seems to flow into a very current debate on how to empirically examine instances in which epistemic hierarchies and divides replicates or are instead overcome(Kaczmarska and Ortmann 2021).…”

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Reaching for allies? The dialectics and overlaps between international relations and area studies in the study of politics, security and conflicts

D’Amato

Dian

Russo

2022

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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This article sets the scene for the Special Issue ‘Reaching for allies?’ by setting out the research questions and structure of the Special Issue. Specifically, this introduction reviews the state of the art of dialectics interweaving International Relations and Area Studies. Specifically, it focuses on tracing the genealogy of these debates, identifying the actors engaged with them, as well as, mapping those sites where such transdisciplinary knowledge is produced and circulated. We also provide an assessment of the interaction between the two disciplinary traditions as scholarly disciplines by reviewing the field as it had developed in the last decade since 2013. In order to do so, we present data on the brokers of this dialogue by analysing top-ranked Journals across regions, dedicated Special Issues on the matter as well as main international conferences and participants. Overall, this article provides a threefold contribution: first, we provide an account of the globalization of knowledge production and circulation that has also increasingly decentred, valuing local peculiarities and epistemological traditions beyond the Western academia(s). Second, we assess and discuss how Western and non-Western academics have contoured concepts which demand and entail site-intensive techniques of enquiry, exposure to complexities on the grounds, ethnographic sensitivity, and, at the same time, comparative endeavours going beyond area specialisms. Third, by looking at international and regional policy-making milieus with attention to context-specificity, we believe critical policy-relevant implications can be discussed, specifically in relation to local ownership and bottom-up approaches.

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IR theory and Area Studies: a plea for displaced knowledge about international politics

Cited by 13 publications

References 64 publications

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Russlandsforskere, hva nå?

Reaching for allies? The dialectics and overlaps between international relations and area studies in the study of politics, security and conflicts

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