Worlds beyond Westphalia: Daoist dialectics and the ‘China threat’

Ling, L. H. M.

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“…In IR, constructivists and poststructuralists have consequently attacked realist discourse, particularly neorealism, as a "power practice" (Guzzini 1993, 465). Since the power-shift discourse rests on a particularly realist-and, according to L. H. M. Ling (2013), Westphalian-concept of power, this criticism is clearly of relevance here.…”

Section: The Power Of the Power-shift Discoursementioning

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East Asia’s Power Shift: The Flaws and Hazards of the Debate and How to Avoid Them

Hagström¹,

Jerdén²

2014

Asian Perspective

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The widespread debate on an East Asian power shift is generally based on the crude notion that power and capability are interchangeable. We critique this view and offer the alternative that power is the capacity of actors and discourses to produce effectswhat we call relational and productive power, respectively. We also engage in a reflexive exercise by addressing the productive power of the power-shift debate itself, and emphasize the danger that this debate might enable the kind of realpolitik that it forebodes.

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Section: The Power Of the Power-shift Discoursementioning

confidence: 98%

East Asia’s Power Shift: The Flaws and Hazards of the Debate and How to Avoid Them

Hagström¹,

Jerdén²

2014

Asian Perspective

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“…Over the past decade and a half, scholars from various theoretical traditions – including the English School itself (Buzan, 2010; Dunne and Reus-Smit, 2017; Hurrell, 2007) – have critically engaged with the expansion of international society to show that this is not just a progressivist story of the diffusion of European norms and values. Instead, it is a story that resonates across time and space in different regional orders (Ling, 2013; Pella, 2014; Suzuki et al, 2013). Moreover, it is a process that is deeply interconnected with empire (Anghie, 2009; Keene, 2002; Reus-Smit, 2013) and, in the more recent past, with other, more or less violent, forms of control and domination.…”

Section: The Disjuncture Between the Expansion Of International Sociementioning

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The hierarchical society: the politics of self-determination and the constitution of new states after 1919

Spanu

2019

European Journal of International Relations

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International Relations scholarship disconnects the history of the so-called expansion of international society from the presence of hierarchies within it. In contrast, this article argues that these developments may in fact be premised on hierarchical arrangements whereby new states are subject to international tutelage as the price of acceptance to international society. It shows that hierarchies within international society are deeply entrenched with the politics of self-determination as international society expands. I substantiate this argument with primary and secondary material on the Minority Treaty provisions imposed on the new states in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe admitted to the League of Nations after World War I. The implications of this claim for International Relations scholarship are twofold. First, my argument contributes to debates on the making of the international system of states by showing that the process of expansion of international society is premised on hierarchy, among and within states. Second, it speaks to the growing body of scholarship on hierarchy in world politics by historicising where hierarchies come from, examining how diverse hierarchies are nested and intersect, and revealing how different actors navigate these hierarchies.

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“…38 In the context of the project to achieve global cyber governance, stability and opportunity, however, the post-Westphalian scholarly critique is misguided. For the cyber era, a permissive and imaginative adaptation of the Westphalian principle could be more of a solution than a problem.…”

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Governing Cyberspace through Constructive Ambiguity

Cornish¹

2015

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At its simplest, cyberspace is a global medium for communication and information exchange between computers and their human operators, an environment (of sorts) in which it is possible for digital signals to be sent, received and processed. Like other communications media, the operating conceit of cyberspace is that it should be indifferent to the quality and meaning of the traffic it carries. It comes as no surprise, then, that cyberspace can be a vehicle for challenge, insecurity, instability, crime and competition.But it can just as often signify opportunity: commercial, economic, cultural, political, social and even moral, in terms of individual human fulfilment.It is not unusual to find challenge and opportunity sitting side by side;this is the case, after all, in most arenas of human interaction. To ensure that such interaction is defined more by opportunity than by challenge, the human instinct is to oversee and to regulate. This instinct is particularly strong in cyberspace because it is a technological construct -a human artefact with which its makers and managers can be as conservative or as ambitious as they wish.This regulatory impulse can lead in a number of directions. The most conservative, minimalist rationale for intervention in -or, more accurately, governance of -cyberspace might be to maintain the well-ordered, disinterested, global information-and traffic-management system it has become. A median position, conveying libertarian, anti-authoritarian convictions, might be to argue that the internet was designed and built

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Worlds beyond Westphalia: Daoist dialectics and the ‘China threat’

Cited by 65 publications

References 29 publications

East Asia’s Power Shift: The Flaws and Hazards of the Debate and How to Avoid Them

East Asia’s Power Shift: The Flaws and Hazards of the Debate and How to Avoid Them

The hierarchical society: the politics of self-determination and the constitution of new states after 1919

Governing Cyberspace through Constructive Ambiguity

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