scholarly journals Système et crise en politique internationale

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 755-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Brecher
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
System Change ◽  
Core System ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Systemic Crisis ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Process Issue ◽  
International Systems

This paper is designed to enrich basic concepts. The specific goals are twofold: to stimulate a renewed interest in a System orientation to international relations ; and to prepare the g round for an analysis of the system-crisis linkage, that is, crises as international earthquakes or triggers to System change. The first section analyses approches to international Systems. In the light of their shortcomings a revised definition of a System is presented, along with a discussion of the core System components - structure, process, issue, boundaries, context and environment. The second part attempts to break fresh ground on the concepts of stability and equilibrium. The third section provides a new perspective on systemic crisis. Part four confronts the major task of linking the unit and System levels of crisis analysis, conceptually and empirically.

Terminological Entrepreneurs and Discursive Shifts in International Relations: How a Discipline Invented the “International Regime”

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Steffek ◽  
Marcus Müller ◽  
Hartmut Behr
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Regime Theory ◽  
International Regime ◽  
Corpus Linguistic ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
Disciplinary History ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Linguistic Methods

Abstract The disciplinary history of international relations (IR) is usually told as a succession of theories or “isms” that are connected to academic schools. Echoing the increasing criticism of this narrative, we present in this article a new perspective on the discipline. We introduce concepts from linguistics and its method of digital discourse analysis (DDA) to explore discursive shifts and terminological entrepreneurship in IR. DDA directs attention away from schools of thought and “heroic figures” who allegedly invented new theories. As we show exemplarily with the rise of “regime theory,” there were entire generations of IR scholars who (more or less consciously) developed new vocabularies to frame and address their common concerns. The terminological history of “international regime” starts in nineteenth century international law, in which French authors already used “régime” to describe transnational forms of governance that were more than a treaty but less than an international organization. Only in the 1980s, however, was an explicit definition of “international regime” forged in American IR, which combined textual elements already in use. We submit that such observations can change the way in which we understand, narrate, and teach the discipline of IR. DDA decenters IR theory from its traditional focus on schools and individuals and suggests unlearning established taxonomies of “isms.” The introduction of corpus linguistic methods to the study of academic IR can thus provide new epistemological directions for the field.

Historical Sociology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Hobson ◽  
George Lawson ◽  
Justin Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modern System ◽  
Constitutive Properties ◽  
International Systems ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Core Features

Over the past 20 years, historical sociology in international relations (HSIR) has contributed to a number of debates, ranging from examination of the origins of the modern states system to unraveling the core features and relative novelty of the contemporary historical period. By the late 1980s and 1990s, a small number of IR scholars drew explicitly on historical sociological insights in order to counter the direction that the discipline was taking under the auspices of the neo-neo debate. Later scholars moved away from examining the specific interconnections between international geopolitics and domestic social change. A further difference that marked this second wave from the first was that it was driven principally by IR scholars working within IR. To date, HSIR has sought to reveal not only the different forms that international systems have taken in the past, but also the ways in which the modern system cannot be treated as an ontological given. Historical sociologists in IR are unanimous in asserting that rethinking the constitutive properties and dynamics of the contemporary system can be successfully achieved only by applying what amounts to a more sensitive “nontempocentric” historical sociological lens. At the same time, by tracing the historical sociological origins of the present international order, HSIR scholars are able to reveal some of the continuities between the past and the present, thereby dispensing with the dangers of chronofetishism.

Afterword

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-670
Author(s):  
John Watkins
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
State System ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
The World ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
Global Corporations ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
State Relations ◽  
International Systems

Scholars of contemporary international relations have long noted the rise of such nonstate agents as global corporations and NGOs on the world stage. With that shift in mind, John Robert Kelley has questioned the continued viability of an institutional definition of diplomacy that dates back to the eighteenth century. If corporate directors and NGO officers have as much impact in shaping international systems as traditionally commissioned diplomats, it might make more sense to redefine diplomacy as a behavior that can be carried out by nonstate, noncommissioned agents. As the essays gathered in this special issue suggest, that behavioralist redefinition of diplomacy might apply just as well to the premodern state system, before the rise of the familiar foreign office, as to the postmodern state system, whose multilayered complexities extend, resist, and often successfully counter the policy goals of traditional diplomats. Diplomats mattered in premodern state relations. But so did merchants and missionaries, writers, actors, and other artists.

Representing Efficiency: Corporatism and Democratic Theory

1988 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 420-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor V. Magagna
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Usual Method ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Democratic Representation ◽  
Textual Exegesis ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
Definition Of

What follows is an attempt to contribute to the renewal of democratic theory. The argument does not offer yet another substantive definition of “genuine” democracy. Nor does it proceed through the usual method of textual exegesis of the texts of democratic thinkers. Instead, it explores the implications for representative government of the set of political and economic practices to which comparativists have attached the label of corporatism. The central proposition of the argument is that corporatism poses a challenge to traditional notions about the core principles of democratic representation. Part one shows that corporatism can be seen as an alternative to the mode of democratic interest articulation known as pluralism. However, part two will show the ways in which the logic of corporatism implies a significant shift from established conventions of representation. The third section tries to build a defense of pluralism as a more democratic mode of representation than either corporatism or neo-Marxism.

Guerre et paix selon Leibniz

Dialogue ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-529
Author(s):  
Jérémie Griard
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Similar Magnitude ◽  
The Core ◽  
Law Of Nations ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThis article deals with Leibniz's dynamic conception of political order. Leibniz reduces the sovereignty of States to the monopoly of coercion by setting apart jurisdictional monopoly and sovereignty. With this new definition of sovereignty however, war becomes the core of international relations. The sovereigns' ability to make war is the condition to take part in law of nations, whose precise aim is to prevent wars. Peace can only exist if there is a balance between opposite forces of similar magnitude that cancel each other.

Sub-typing depression, I. Is psychomotor disturbance necessary and sufficient to the definition of melancholia?

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 815-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Parker ◽  
D. Hadzi-Pavlovic ◽  
M.-P. Austin ◽  
P. Mitchell ◽  
K. Wilhelm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Diurnal Variation ◽  
Clinical Features ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Melancholic Depression ◽  
Core System ◽  
The Core ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

SYNOPSISMelancholia is most commonly distinguished from non-melancholic depression by the presence of psychomotor disturbance (PMD) and a set of ‘endogeneity’ symptoms. We examine the capacity of an operationalized clinician-rated measure of PMD (the CORE system) to predict diagnostic assignment to ‘melancholic/endogenous’ classes by the DSM-III-R and Newcastle systems. Examining a pre-established CORE cut-off score (≥ 8) against independent diagnostic assignment, PMD was present in 51% of those assigned as melancholic by DSM-III-R, and 85% of those assigned as endogenous by the Newcastle system, quantifying the extent to which it is ‘necessary’ to the two definitions of ‘melancholia’. Additionally, multivariate analyses established that the addition of a refined set of historically suggested endogeneity symptoms added only slightly to overall discrimination of melancholic and non-melancholic depressives. While only few endogeneity symptoms independent of psychomotor disturbance were suggested, their specific relevance varied against system definition of melancholia (appetite/weight loss and terminal insomnia being identified for DSM-III-R; anhedonia for Newcastle; and diurnal variation in mood and energy for both systems). Results allow consideration of the relative importance of two domains (psychomotor disturbance and ‘endogeneity’ symptoms) to clinical definition of melancholia, and have the potential to assist both classification and pursuit of neurobiological determinants. We interpret findings as suggesting a ‘core and mantle’ model for conceptualizing the clinical features of melancholia, with psychomotor disturbance as the core and with independent endogeneity symptoms as only a thin mantle.

scholarly journals STRATEGIC GROUPING IN ITO SERVICES AS A MEAN OF IDENTIFYING THE MAIN COMPETITORS FOR HUMAN RESOURCES

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (Suppl.1) ◽  
pp. 388-394
Author(s):  
R. Radev
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Strategic Groups ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Service Category ◽  
Detailed Assessment ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Intensity Of Competition

This publication aims to present the strategic groups of competitors in the outsourcing sector in Bulgaria. In the core of strategic grouping presented here is the identification of the product-market profile of a sample of 35 main competitors. It is a part of the research of the HR capacity sustainability of Bulgaria as one of the leading destinations for providing outsourcing services. The methodology for the identification of the strategic groups consists of three main steps. The first step purpose is to identify the population of the main competitors. The vital part of this step is the definition of BPO and ITO services, which are of interest to the research. The second step refers to identifying individual companies, supplying one or another BPO/ITO service. For a more detailed assessment, it is also essential to define the depth of BPO/ITO services provided by every competitor. This profiling helps to determine the intensity of competition for each service category. The third step goal is to identify strategic groups of competitors that employ human resources with similar technical and language skills. This grouping helps companies to define appropriate human resources policies to make them more competitive in attracting and retaining the desired human resources.

System and crisis in international politics

1985 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Brecher ◽  
Hemda Ben Yehuda
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International System ◽  
System Change ◽  
System Level ◽  
Major Obstacle ◽  
Equilibrium Stability ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Level Change ◽  
Essential Properties ◽  
Definition Of

This paper is an effort to overcome a major obstacle to a creative system orientation in international relations—a dearth of knowledge about system-level change. To accomplish this goal two tasks are necessary. First, building upon earlier contributions, a new definition of international system is offered and its essential properties—structure, process, equilibrium, stability—are discussed. The second requirement is to create a new approach to crisis and to forge links between its unit and system levels, the focus of the rest of the paper. This, in turn, will facilitate the analysis of crises as catalysts to system change, that is, as international earthquakes.

scholarly journals O pojęciu i istocie bezpieczeństwa

2018 ◽  
pp. 23-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remigiusz ROSICKI
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
General Definition ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Survival And Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Spatial Entity

The subject of the paper is the notion and essence of security. The paper is divided into three parts; the first one discusses the essence of security, the second – the increasing significance of security in non-military dimensions, while the third part presents different ways of defining the notion of security. The first part analyzes security in its philosophical, existential and biological contexts. These considerations are concluded with a general definition of security as the opportunity to fulfill one’s existential needs as well as to ensure one’s existence, survival and development. Security is also a state of certainty of the above opportunities. The second part of the paper concerns the issue of the expansion of the notion of security. This is related to redefining power in international relations and with the progressing specialization of the fields of study that deal with the issue of security. Additionally, attention should be paid to the expanding repertoire of threats, which forms an element of numerous definitions of security. The expansion of this repertoire itself may be a consequence of increased awareness in various realms of social activity (e.g. environmental protection). The last part concentrates on the ways of defining security and concerns four approaches to security as the (1) subject, (2) object, (3) a spatial entity, and (4) a process. It can be said that the concept of security is open; it is impossible to present a single, clear set of definitions. This follows from the open repertoire of threats and different approaches of different fields. Therefore, static approaches to the essence of security should be criticized. It should also be stated that the range of the concept will continue to expand.

scholarly journals URSPRUNGSFOLK OCH RATTEN TILL SJÅLV-BESTÅMMANDE: Sjalvbestammandedoktrinen mot en ny mening?

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulf Johansson Dahre
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Third World ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Third ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Third World

Ulf Johansson Dahre: Indigenous peoples and the right to self-determination: selfdetermination towards a new meaning? The beginning of the last decade of the 20th century has seen the end of a distinet era in international relations. This era, encompassing the years 1945-1990, was the era of decolonization, in which self-determination was defined or understood in relation to decolonization in the third world. This era also brought a distinet definition of self-determination. Entitled to self-determination were the peoples of European overseas colonies. Minorities and indigenous peoples excluded. However, a redefinition, or an extension of the concept, is ocurring. It is likely that self-determination will become a legal right of indigenous peoples, but not explicitly recognizing secession, but a right to political and social participation within the existing States. In the transition from colonial to postcolonial contexts, self-determination is becoming a means of conflict resolution and a way of pushing for democratic rights, also for indigenous peoples.

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