Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-v9fdk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-11T10:55:29.270Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Mind the gap: IR and the challenge of international politics†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2015

Sonia Lucarelli ,
Francesco N. Moro ,
Daniela Sicurelli ,
Carla Monteleone  and
Eugenia Baroncelli
Sonia Lucarelli*
Affiliation:
Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Francesco N. Moro
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Daniela Sicurelli
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Carla Monteleone
Affiliation:
Department of European Studies and International Integration (DEMS), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Eugenia Baroncelli
Affiliation:
Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
*
*E-mail: sonia.lucarelli@unibo.it
Get access

Abstract

The discipline of International Relations (IR) for a long time of its history has developed in the form of Great Debates that involved competing paradigms and schools. More recently, it has been described as a cacophony of voices unable to communicate among themselves, but also incapable to provide keys to understand an ever more complex reality. This collection aims at evaluating the heuristic value of a selection of traditional paradigms (realism and liberalism), schools (constructivism), and subdisciplines (security studies and international political economy) so as to assess the challenges before IR theory today and the ability of the discipline to provide tools to make the changed world still intelligible.

Keywords

Realismliberalismconstructivismsecurity studiesinternational political economy
Type
Debate
Information
Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 79 - 101
Copyright
© Societá Italiana di Scienza Politica 2015 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

†

Editor of the roundtable was Sonia Lucarelli.

References

Acharya, A. (2011), ‘Dialogue and discovery: in search of international relations theories beyond the West’, Millennium – Journal of International Studies 39(3): 619–637.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Adamson, F.B. (2005), ‘Global liberalism versus political Islam: competing ideological frameworks in international politics’, International Studies Review 7(4): 547–569.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Adler, E. (2012), ‘Constructivism in international relations: sources, contributions and debate’, in W. Carlsnaes, T. Risse and B.A. Simmons (eds), Handbook of International Relations, London: Sage, pp. 112–144.Google Scholar
Akerlof, G.A. and Shiller, R.J. (2009), Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Art, R., et al. (2002), ‘War with Iraq is not in America’s national interest’, The New York Times, September 25.Google Scholar
Attinà, F. (2011), The Global Political System, Houndmills: Palgrave.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Balzacq, T. (ed.) (2011), Securitization Theory. How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve, London and New York, NY: Routledge.Google Scholar
Beardsley, K. and Schmidt, H. (2012), ‘Following the flag or following the charter? Examining the determinants of UN involvement in international crises, 1945-2002’, International Studies Quarterly 56(1): 33–49.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blyth, M. (2002), Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Buzan, B. and Hansen, L. (2009), The Evolution of International Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Carlin, W. (2011), 10 Questions About the Eurozone Crisis and Whether It Can Be Solved, Mimeo, Cambridge, MA: Center for European Studies, Harvard University.Google Scholar
Cesa, M. (2010), Allies Yet Rivals. International Politics in 18 thCentury Europe, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cohen, B.J. (2008), International Political Economy. An Intellectual History, Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cohen, B.J. (2009), ‘A grave case of myopia’, International Interactions 35(4): 436–444.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Copeland, D. (2000), The Origins of Major Wars, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar
Coticchia, F. and Moro, F.N. (2014), ‘The transformation of Italian Armed Forces’, The International Spectator 49(1): 133–148.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dembinsky, M. and Schott, B. (2014), ‘Regional security arrangements as a filter for norm diffusion: the African Union, the European Union and the responsibility to protect’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs 27(2): 362–380.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Drezner, D.W. (2007), ‘The new new world order’, Foreign Affairs 86(2): 34–46.Google Scholar
Dunne, T., Hansen, L. and Wight, C. (2013), ‘The end of international relations theory?’, European Journal of International Relations 19(Special Issue, 3): 405–665.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Eichengreen, B. (2011), ‘International policy coordination: the long view’, Working Paper No. 17665, NBER, Cambridge, MA.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Farrell, H. and Newman, A. (2010), ‘Making global markets: historical institutionalism in international political economy’, Review of International Political Economy 17(4): 609–638.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fazal, T.M. (2007), State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Finnemore, M. and Sikkink, K. (1998), ‘International norm dynamics and political change’, International Organization 52(4): 887–917.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Foot, R. (2000), Rights Beyond Borders: The Global Community and the Struggle Over Human Rights in China, Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Friedman, T.L. (2005), The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Google Scholar
Friedrichs, J. and Kratochwil, F. (2009), ‘On acting and knowing: how pragmatism can advance international relations research and methodology’, International Organization 63(4): 701–731.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gat, A. (2005), ‘The democratic peace theory reframed. The impact of modernity’, World Politics 58(1): 73–100.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Goodman, R. and Jinks, D. (2013), Socializing States: Promoting Human Rights Through International Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gourevitch, P. (1986), Politics in Hard Times. Comparative Responses to International Economic Crises, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar
Grieco, J.M. (1995), ‘The Maastricht Treaty, economic and monetary union and the neo-realist research programme’, Review of International Studies 21(1): 21–40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Guzzini, S. (2004), ‘The enduring dilemmas of realism in international relations’, European Journal of International Relations 10(4): 533–568.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Guzzini, S. (2011), ‘Securitization as a causal mechanism’, Security Dialogue 42(4–5): 329–341.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Haacke, J. (2013), ASEAN’s Diplomatic and Security Culture: Origins, Development and Prospects, London and New York, NY: Routledge.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Helleiner, E. (2014), The Status Quo Crisis: Global Financial Governance After the 2008 Financial Meltdown, Oxford and New York, NY: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Helleiner, E. and Pagliari, S. (2011), ‘The end of an era in international financial regulation? A postcrisis research agenda’, International Organization 65(1): 169–200.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Herndon, T., Ash, M. and Pollin, R. (2014), ‘Does high public debt consistently stifle economic growth? A critique of Reinhart and Rogoff’, Cambridge Journal of Economics 38(2): 257–279.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hobson, J.M. and Seabrooke, L. (eds). (2007), Everyday Politics of the World Economy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Istituto per l’Enciplopedia Italiana. (2012), Atlante Geopolitico Treccani, Rome: Istituto per l’Enciplopedia Italiana.Google Scholar
Jacobs, M. (2005), Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Johnston, A.I. (1998), ‘Thinking about strategic culture’, International Security 19(4): 32–64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kaufman, J.P. (2013), Introduction to International Relations: Theory and Practice, New York, NY: Rowman and Littlefield.Google Scholar
Keohane, R.O. (2006), ‘The contingent legitimacy of multilateralism’, Working Paper No: 09/06, GARNET. Retrieved 15 February 2015 from http://www.garnet-eu.org/fileadmin/documents/working_papers/0906.pdf.Google Scholar
Keohane, R.O. (2009), ‘The old IPE and the new’, Review of International Political Economy 16(1): 34–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kessler, O. (2010), ‘Risk’, in B.J. Peter (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of New Security Studies, New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 17–26.Google Scholar
Kindleberger, C. (1978), Manias, Panics and Crashes. A History of Financial Crises, New York, NY: Wiley, now reprinted by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 6th Edn.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lake, D. (2009), ‘Open economy politics: a critical review’, The Review of International Organizations 4(3): 219–244.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Langley, P. (2002), World Financial Orders: An Historical International Political Economy, London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Leblang, D. and Pandya, S. (2009), ‘The financial crisis of 2007: our Waterloo or take a chance on IPE’, International Interactions 35(4): 430–435.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lebow, R.N. (1994), ‘The long peace, the end of the cold war, and the failure of realism’, International Organization 48(2): 249–277.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lobell, S.E., Ripsman, N.M. and Taliaferro, J.W. (2009), Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mansfield, E.D. and Snyder, J.L. (2005), Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War, Cambridge: MIT Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McKeown, R. (2009), ‘Norm regress: US revisionism and the slow death of the torture norm’, International Relations 23(1): 5–25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McKinsey Global Institute. (2011), ‘Report: urban world: mapping the economic power of cities’. Retrieved 15 February 2015 from http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/MGI/Research/Urbanization/Urban_world.Google Scholar
Mearsheimer, J.J. (2001), The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, New York, NY: Norton.Google Scholar
Miller, B. (2012), ‘Does democratization pacify the state? The cases of Germany and Iraq’, International Studies Quarterly 56(3): 455–469.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Monten, J. (2005), ‘The roots of the Bush doctrine: power, nationalism, and democracy promotion in grand strategy’, International Security 29(4): 112–156.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mosley, L. and Singer, D. (2009), ‘The global financial crisis: lessons and opportunities for international political economy’, International Interactions 35(4): 420–429.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mueller, J. (1989), Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major Wars, New York, NY: Basic Books.Google Scholar
North, D. and Weingast, B. (1989), ‘Constitutions and commitment: the evolution of institutions governing public choice in 17th century England’, Journal of Economic History 49(4): 803–832.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Oatley, T. (2011), ‘The reductionist gamble: open economy politics in the global economy’, International Organization 65(2): 311–341.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Panke, D. and Petersohn, U. (2012), ‘Why international norms disappear sometimes’, European Journal of International Relations 18(4): 719–742.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Peters, B.G. (2011), ‘Approaches in comparative politics’, in D. Caramani (ed.), Comparative Politics, 2nd Edn., Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 37–50.Google Scholar
Posen, B.R. (1993), ‘The security dilemma and ethnic conflict’, Survival 35(1): 27–47.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reinhart, C.M. and Rogoff, K.S. (2014), ‘This Time is Different: A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial Crises’, Annals of Economics and Finance, 15(2): 1065–1188.Google Scholar
Reus-Smit, C. and Snidal, D. (2008), ‘Between utopia and reality: the practical discourses of international relations’, in C. Reus-Smith and D. Snidal (eds), Oxford Handbook of International Relations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 3–40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ruggie, J.G. (1992), ‘Multilateralism: the anatomy of an institution’, International Organization 46(3): 566–568.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sandholtz, W. and Stiles, K. (2008), International Norms and Cycles of Change, Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schneider, G. and Gleditsch, N.P. (2010), ‘The capitalist peace: the origins and prospects of a liberal idea’, International Interactions 36(2): 107–114.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schweller, R. (2009), ‘Neoclassical realism and state mobilization: expansion ideology in the age of mass politics’, in S.E. Lobell, N.M. Ripsman and J.W. Taliaferro (eds), Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 227–250.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Snow, D.A. (2004), ‘Framing processes, ideology, and discursive fields’, in D.A. Snow, S.A. Soule and H. Kriesi (eds). The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, Oxford: Wiley, pp. 380–412.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Strange, S. (1970), ‘International economics and international relations: a case of mutual neglect’, International Affairs 46(2): 304–315.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tickner, A. and Wæver, O. (eds). (2009), International Relations Scholarship Around the World, London: Routledge.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Van Langhenhove, L. (2010), ‘The transformation of multilateralism mode 1.0 to mode 2.0’, Global Policy 1(3): 263–270.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vasquez, J.A. (1999), The Power of Power Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wade, R. (2009), ‘Beware what you wish for: lessons for international political economy from the transformation of economics’, Review of International Political Economy 16(1): 106–121.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Watson, M. (2007), The Political Economy of International Capital Mobility, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wendt, A. (1992), ‘Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics’, International Organization 46(2): 391–425.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Widmaier, W. (2009), ‘Economics are too important to leave to economists: the everyday, emotional, and unconscious dimensions of international political economy’, Review of International Political Economy 16(5): 945–957.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wiener, A. (2003), ‘Constructivism: the limits of bridging gaps’, Journal of International Relations and Development 6(3): 252–275.Google Scholar
Zehfuss, M. (2001), ‘Constructivism and identity: a dangerous liaison’, European Journal of International Relations 7(3): 315–348.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zürn, M. and Stephen, M. (2010), ‘The view of old and new powers on the legitimacy of international institutions’, Politics 30(S1): 91–101.CrossRefGoogle Scholar