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- Hagström, Linus, Professor, 1972-, et al.
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The limitations of strategic narratives : The Sino-American struggle over the meaning of COVID-19
- 2021
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Ingår i: Contemporary Security Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1352-3260 .- 1743-8764. ; 42:4, s. 415-449
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent research has explored how the Sino-American narrative struggle around COVID-19 might affect power shift dynamics and world order. An underlying assumption is that states craft strategic narratives in attempts to gain international support for their understandings of reality. This article evaluates such claims taking a mixed-methods approach. It analyzes American and Chinese strategic narratives about the pandemic, and their global diffusion and resonance in regional states that are important to the U.S.-led world order: Australia, India, South Korea, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. While the article confirms that strategic narratives remain a highly popular policy instrument, it argues that their efficacy appears limited. Overall, the five states in question either ignored the Sino-American narrative power battle by disseminating their own strategic narratives, or they engaged in “narrative hedging.” Moreover, even China’s narrative entrepreneurship was enabled and constrained by pre-existing master narratives integral to the current U.S.-led world order.
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- Hagström, Linus, Professor, 1972-, et al.
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Everyday Perspectives on Security and Insecurity in Japan : A Survey of Three Women’s Organizations
- 2022
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Ingår i: Social Science Japan Journal. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1369-1465 .- 1468-2680. ; 25:1, s. 29-54
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The existing research on Japanese security focuses mainly on the nation state and conceives of male elites as the key bearers of relevant knowledge about the phenomenon. This article problematizes these biases by zeroing in on women’s everyday-oriented perspectives, which fall outside the scope of security politics as traditionally conceived. More specifically, it analyzes the rich material provided by a survey of the members of three major Japanese women’s organizations, using a mixed-method approach premised on statistical methods and qualitative content analysis. The results show that the Japanese women in our sample accommodate and reproduce content from dominant elite views about security and insecurity. However, they also challenge and at times ignore these perspectives by identifying a host of other insecurities as more pressing in their daily lives, notably those related to environmental degradation and Japan’s political development.
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- Appelgren, Staffan, 1967, et al.
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Introduktion: varför Japan?
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Ingår i: Japan nu: strömningar och perspektiv. - Stockholm : Carlsson bokförlag. - 9789173317368
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- Gustafsson, Karl, et al.
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Forskningsproblem : vad står på spel?
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Ingår i: Att forska. - Stockholm : Carlsson Bokförlag. - 9789173317696 ; , s. 96-118
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- Gustafsson, Karl, et al.
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Long live pacifism! : narrative power and Japan’spacifist model
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Ingår i: Cambridge Review of International Affairs. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0955-7571 .- 1474-449X. ; 32:4, s. 502-520
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- International relations research acknowledges that states can have different security policies but neglects the fact that ‘models’ may exist in the security policy realm. This article suggests that it is useful to think about models, which it argues can become examples for emulation or be undermined through narrative power. It illustrates the argument by analysing Japan’s pacifism—an alternative approach to security policy which failed to become an internationally popular model and, despite serving the country well for many years, has even lost its appeal in Japan. Conventional explanations suggest that Japan’s pacifist policies were ‘abnormal’, and that the Japanese eventually realized this. By contrast, this article argues that narratives undermined Japan’s pacifism by mobilizing deep-seated beliefs about what is realistic and unrealistic in international politics, and launches a counter-narrative that could help make pacifism a more credible model in world politics.
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- Gustafsson, Karl, 1977-, et al.
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The insecurity of doing research and the ‘so what question’ in political science : how to develop more compelling research problems by facing anxiety
- 2023
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Ingår i: European Political Science. - 1680-4333 .- 1682-0983. ; , s. -15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research problems are crucial in the sense that they provide new research with purpose and justification. So why, despite the abundance of guidance available from an extensive methods literature, do graduate students often struggle to develop compelling research problems? This article argues that the process of developing research problems epitomises the insecurity of doing research. We focus in particular on the anxiety that graduate students often seek to avoid or alleviate through a range of counterproductive coping strategies. The existing literature on research problems focuses predominantly on the technical aspects of doing research while neglecting how anxiety might affect the research process. This article seeks to rectify this shortcoming by providing advice on how graduate students can face such anxiety, and how professors can assist them in this endeavour. Drawing on theories about identity and anxiety, the article explains the allure of coping strategies such as gap-filling, while arguing that anxiety is not necessarily a negative emotion to be avoided at all costs, but integral to learning and creativity. It concludes by suggesting that compelling research problems can be constructed through the formulation of narratives that try to embrace anxiety, instead of seeking premature resolutions.
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- Gustafsson, Karl, et al.
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What Is the Point? : Teaching Graduate Students how to Construct Political Science Research Puzzles
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Ingår i: European Political Science. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1680-4333 .- 1682-0983. ; 17:4, s. 634-648
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the key challenges graduate students face is how to come up with a good rationale for their theses. Unfortunately, the methods literature in and beyond political science does not provide much advice on this important issue. While focusing on how to conduct research, this literature has largely neglected the question of why a study should be undertaken. The limited discussions that can be found suggest that new research is justified if it (1) fills a ‘gap’; (2) addresses an important real-world problem; and/or (3) is methodologically rigorous. This article discusses the limitations of these rationales. Then, it proposes that research puzzles are more useful for clarifying the nature and importance of a contribution to existing research, and hence a better way of justifying new research. The article also explores and clarifies what research puzzles are, and begins to devise a method for constructing them out of the vague ideas and questions that often trigger a research process.
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