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- Guzzini, Stefano, 1963-
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Power and cause
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Ingår i: Journal of International Relations and Development. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. - 1408-6980 .- 1581-1980. ; 20:4, s. 737-759
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Conceiving power relations as a subset of causal relations can be used toexpose the problems of a certain behaviouralist take on causality and develop aninterpretivist approach to explanation. The first section of this article shows that abehaviouralist approach ultimately clashes with a relational understanding of power,since the latter requires endogenising values and understandings in an analysis in whichseveral causal paths to the same outcome can exist (equifinality) with radically differentimplications for attributing power. Power relations can be non-linear, and power dispositionalor latent, as well as not translating into influence. The second section drawsthe consequences of these contradictions by conceptualising causal/social mechanismsfor and in an interpretivist framework. Such mechanisms can be part of a wider analysisof contingent processes that answer ‘how possible’ questions. Although interpretivistprocess-tracing provides explanations without strict regularity, such processes includemechanisms which are transferable to other cases, hence generalisable. Finally, thearticle establishes a specific discursive mechanism of crisis reduction in foreign policyidentity discourses, as developed in the comparative study of the processes that make usunderstand the unexpected return of geopolitical thought in Europe in the 1990s.
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- Guzzini, Stefano, 1963-
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Power
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Ingår i: Concepts in World Politics. - London : Sage Publications. - 9781446294284 ; , s. 23-40
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- Balzacq, Thierry, et al.
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What kind of theory – if any – is securitization?
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Ingår i: International Relations. - : SAGE Publications. - 0047-1178 .- 1741-2862. ; 29:1, s. 96-136
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the great appeals of securitization theory, and a major reason for its success, has been itsusefulness as a tool for empirical research: an analytic framework capable of practical application.However, the development of securitization has raised several criticisms, the most important ofwhich concern the nature of securitization theory. In fact, the appropriate methods, the researchpuzzles and type of evidence accepted all derive to a great extent from the kind of theory scholarsbequeath their faith to. This Forum addresses the following questions: What type of theory (ifany) is securitization? How many kinds of theories of securitization do we have? How can thedifferences between theories of securitization be drawn? What is the status of exceptionalismwithin securitization theories, and what difference does it make to their understandings of therelationship between security and politics? Finally, if securitization commands that leaders act nowbefore it is too late, what status has temporality therein? Is temporality enabling securitization toabsorb risk analysis or does it expose its inherent theoretical limits?
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- Guzzini, Stefano, 1963-
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Hans J. Morgenthau and the three purposes of power
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hans Morgenthau's power analysis combines a philosophical, explanatory and practical approach. In his philosophy, power and the will for domination constitutes the nature of politics. In his explanatory approach power, expressed in terms of interest, provides both the aim of foreign policy and the means for its achievements. The practice of power focuses on the ways states(wo)men need to gauge power to avoid miscalculus and its perils. Although filled with insight about the limits of power analysis, like the reduction of power to military affairs or the hubris of the perfect power assessment, Morgenthau's approach is profoundly contradictory. Whereas he needs an explanatory theory of power to support his meta-physical statements, ultimately, the explanatory theory is not independent of it. While his theory should explain the historical record, the somewhat given lessons of history are the defense for his theory (and hence the theory cannot be independently justified). Whereas power needs to be precisely measurable for any statement of its maximisation and balancing, as the explanatory approach requires, his practical approach insists in the sheer impossibility and political danger of believing in such precise measure, since it undermines the realist quest for prudence.This analysis will inform the early chapters of a book project on power analysis in International Relations. Morgenthau stands as an example for the awareness that power is used in three different sites at the same time, an awareness often lost in later writers. The different attempts to deal with the tensions and contradictions of using the three sites at the same time will inform the evolution of power analysis in the following chapters.
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- Guzzini, Stefano, 1963-
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Power, realism and constructivism
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Framed by a new and substantial introductory chapter, this book collects Stefano Guzzini’s reference articles and some less well-known publications on power, realism and constructivism. By analysing theories and their assumptions, but also theorists following their intellectual paths, his analysis explores the diversity of different schools, and moves beyond simple definitions to explore their intrinsic tensions and fallacies. Guzzini’s approach to the analysis of power – within and outside International Relations – provides the common theme of the book through which the theoretical state of the art in IR is reassessed.A novel analysis of power and the potential limits of realism and constructivism in International Relations, Power, Realism and Constructivism will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, international political economy, social and political theory, and the study of power.
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- Guzzini, Stefano, 1963-
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Saving Realist Prudence
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Ingår i: The Social Construction of State Power. - Bristol : Bristol University Press. - 9781529209839 ; , s. 217-232
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