U.S. Foreign Policy Think Tanks and Women’s Intellectual Labor, 1920–1950*

Rietzler, Katharina

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“…'Careful, often fragile, collective initiated change is the only possibility' (225). Evidence of this type of transformative epistemic work has been uncovered by the historical investigation of women's international thought, which has shown us the significance of collaborative knowledge production in contexts ranging from the professional work of women librarians, teachers and researchers to the collectivist, activist work of Black women in shaping anti-colonial and antiracist international political theory (Blain, 2018;Farmer, 2017;Huber et al, 2021;Rietzler, 2022;Umoren, 2018).…”

Section: Doing Epistemic Justice To Knowledge and Ignorancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has identified hundreds of women thinkers and opened up their ideas and texts for examination (Owens et al, 2022b); epistemic communities in which women shaped emergent intellectual agendas in the study of IR (Confortini, 2012); rich intellectual legacies outside of the academy and elite circles in the work of women activists and revolutionaries (Rupp, 1998;Umoren, 2018). It has established the importance of women-dominated professional work in shaping the study of international and world politics (Huber et al, 2021;Rietzler, 2022). It has also begun to identify some of the mechanisms through which women's thought vanished from accounts of the history of international thought (Hutchings and Owens, 2021).…”

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Doing epistemic justice in International Relations: women and the history of international thought

Hutchings

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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This article examines the meaning and implications of doing epistemic justice in the study of International Relations through the prism of the recovery of the international thought of Fannie Fern Andrews and Amy Ashwood Garvey and in dialogue with feminist epistemology. It argues that doing epistemic justice involves going beyond restorative justice for excluded voices in which the historical record is set straight, inclusionary justice in which previously excluded voices are added to disciplinary conversations, and transformative justice, in which the perspectives of the marginalised and oppressed become sources of epistemic authority and new knowledge. Over and above all of these things, doing epistemic justice entails practising a particular kind of epistemic collective responsibility, which actively and reflexively recognises and engages with power-laden relations between knowers, worlds and audiences in the production of international thought, then and now.

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Section: Doing Epistemic Justice To Knowledge and Ignorancementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Doing epistemic justice in International Relations: women and the history of international thought

Hutchings

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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“…Chatham House was relatively open to employing women and had in fact employed women since the inter-war period, mainly as research assistants and librarians, but by the 1960s some held senior appointments. 28 Think tank work could provide women with a career in research and scholarship when universities were still more hostile to employing women and, in the case of Camps in particular, they could serve as a base for continued diplomatic activity. 29 However, Chatham House was the exception among the elite foreign policy think tanks.…”

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Setting the Agenda on the United Kingdom's Policy towards the European Community: Miriam Camps at Chatham House

Seidel

2023

Contemporary European History

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Historical analysis of the UK government's policy towards European integration is mostly confined to the ‘official’ sphere, that is government, civil service and professional diplomacy. Non-governmental actors within the wider field of para-diplomacy such as policy entrepreneurs or elite foreign policy think tanks have not yet been systematically incorporated in this history. This article explores when and under what circumstances such diplomatic actors can influence government foreign policy formulation. The case explored here is that of Miriam Camps (1916–94), a scholar, former US diplomat and senior researcher at Chatham House. Camps utilised her Chatham House contacts, including key Foreign Office officials as well as her wider transnational network, to influence the Foreign Office's stance on the so-called ‘empty chair’ crisis of the European Economic Community in 1965/6. The article argues that during the crisis Camps acted as a policy entrepreneur with the aim of advancing her own ideas and changing the UK government's position towards the European Economic Community. Besides demonstrating the influence of unofficial diplomats on policy formulation, the article also contributes to the growing literature on the varied roles of women in international relations and diplomacy.

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The Catastrophe of the Present and That of the Future: Expectations for European States from the Great War to the Great Depression

Richter

2023

Contemporary European History

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To understand the mindset that obstructed the paths out of the interwar crisis, we need to reconstruct widely held expectations for the future of states. To examine how such expectations changed, diverged and competed, this paper investigates the work of inquiry committees, ranging from British and German committees engaged in post-war economic planning to the League of Nation's Commission of Enquiry for European Union of the early 1930s. The paper concludes that the interwar crisis can only be understood if we put the Great War and the Great Depression into a common frame. The war changed expectations, but not as drastically as we would instinctively assume. The expectation of an order of expanding, integrating blocs was challenged by the emergence of new ‘small states’ but survived. It was shattered when efforts to overcome the economic slump failed, leading to a broader acceptance of territorial revisionism across Europe than hitherto assumed.

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U.S. Foreign Policy Think Tanks and Women’s Intellectual Labor, 1920–1950*

Cited by 6 publications

References 2 publications

Doing epistemic justice in International Relations: women and the history of international thought

Doing epistemic justice in International Relations: women and the history of international thought

Setting the Agenda on the United Kingdom's Policy towards the European Community: Miriam Camps at Chatham House

The Catastrophe of the Present and That of the Future: Expectations for European States from the Great War to the Great Depression

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