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- Bartelson, Jens
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The language of law and the laws of language
- 2016
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Ingår i: Millennium. - : SAGE Publications. - 0305-8298. ; 44:2, s. 250-257
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Status of Law in World Society by Friedrich Kratochwil is a sophisticated attempt to reassert the importance of international law in a globalised world by grounding it in the actual practices of legal reasoning. Yet this attempt to ground normativity in practice strikes me as problematic. As I shall argue, what law is cannot be determined with reference to legal practices only, but will depend on the fulfillment of certain background requirements which themselves stand in need of further justification. Thus the recourse to linguistic practice is beset by an ambivalence that stems from the fact that language and law always already are intertwined, an ambivalence that cannot therefore be overcome with recourse to either. If it is the case that law has a language of its own, we must also be prepared to admit that language has its own laws. What then is gained by the recourse to linguistic practice is not so much a resolution but rather a temporary displacement of indeterminacy from the realm of law to that of language.
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- Basu-Mellish, Jack, et al.
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English School Special Section
- 2023
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Ingår i: Millennium. - 0305-8298 .- 1477-9021. ; 51:2, s. 552-614
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This is a series of solicited articles requested by the editors of Vol. 51, emerging from a roundtable discussion held at the 2022 International Studies Association Convention. Each short contribution seeks to demonstrate the newest research of the English School of International Relations. These contributions tackle key questions including: the decline of liberal hegemony, the rise of China, the divide between soldaristic and pluralistic ethics, the engagement of the English School with Area Studies, theoretical approaches to grounding English School research and an investigation of the English School’s intellectual legacy.
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- Berndtsson, Joakim, 1975
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Security Professionals for Hire: Exploring the Many Faces of Private Security Expertise
- 2012
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Ingår i: Millennium Journal of International Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0305-8298 .- 1477-9021. ; 40:2, s. 303-320
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Private security companies (PSCs) do not merely provide protective services; they also sell specific understandings of the world and of security problems. Promoting their services, PSCs project images of professional security expertise. This article contributes to our knowledge of commercial security experts by analysing the ways in which images of expertise are constructed, focusing on the contracting of a PSC in 2008 by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Drawing on material from interviews, the company website and the contracting process, the article explores ‘public’ and ‘professional’ self-images, and shows how these images differ in important respects, underlining the need to see private security expertise as multifaceted and contradictory. The article also reveals problems of using categories such as ‘public’ and ‘private’ when analysing private security, thus feeding into the debate on definition, and provides important insights into the potential role of PSCs in shaping understandings of, and decisions on, security issues.
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- Bousquet, Antoine
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Time Zero: Hiroshima, September 11 and Apocalyptic Revelations in Historical Consciousness
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Ingår i: Millennium. - : SAGE Publications. - 0305-8298 .- 1477-9021. ; 34:3, s. 739-764
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article considers the place of the Hiroshima bombing and the September 11 attacks as singular acts of violence constituting major points of rupture in the historical consciousness and chronological narratives of the Western world: Ground Zero is Time Zero. Geographically and temporally delineated instances of intense death and destruction, both acts have been construed as moments when the world `changed for ever'. Our schemata of interpretation — the mental frameworks through which we impose meaning and continuity on the world around us and determine the range of our expectations — were violently overthrown by those events, shattered by images that exceed our minds' capabilities of re presentation and symbols that challenge our liberal metanarratives of ineluctable progress. By bringing to the fo re their aesthetic dimension and reading them through the lens of the Kantian notion of the sublime, we can grasp those events in their original intensity as overwhelming revelatory experiences. Apocalyptic both in their imagery and the meaning attributed to them, those unprecedented acts of terror re p resent turning-points in our reconstituted historical narratives, marking a culmination of history leading to it as well as the start of a new era in which it is proclaimed that many previous assumptions no longer hold.
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- Delatolla, A., et al.
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Challenging Institutional Racism in International Relations and Our Profession: Reflections, Experiences, and Strategies
- 2021
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Ingår i: Millennium-Journal of International Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0305-8298 .- 1477-9021. ; 50:1, s. 110-148
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Attempts to create a more inclusive discipline and profession have been commended by many and derided by some. While these attempts have pushed for change, particularly with regards to more equal representation of gender and race among faculty, policies aimed at creating a more inclusive environment are often tokenistic, administrative and bureaucratic, and fail to address structural and institutional practices and norms. Moreover, the administrative and bureaucratic policies put into place are generally targeted at a single categorical group, failing to take into account the manner in which identities are intersecting and overlapping. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion often gets driven by Human Resources and Marketing rather than owned by the wider university. This forum draws from a variety of contributions that focus on describing the lived realities of institutional racism, its intersections with other forms of discrimination, and strategies for change. In putting together this forum, we do not aim to create a checklist of practical steps. Instead, we hope to signpost and make visible the successes and failures of previous challenges and future possibilities that must be taken by both faculty and administrations.
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- Georgi, Richard, 1987
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In-between Translation, Transformation and Contestation: Studying Human Rights Activism as Politics-as-Ruptures in Violent Social Conflicts
- 2019
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Ingår i: Millennium-Journal of International Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0305-8298 .- 1477-9021. ; 48:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How can we study the politics of human rights activism in violent social conflicts? International Relations scholarship has long neglected the ambiguous political relationships between human rights activism and violent social conflicts. Addressing this gap requires new research methodologies that place the focus not on the normative or legal dimensions of human rights, but in how their usage constitutes the political. In this article I argue that using post-foundational discourse theory makes visible 'politics-as-ruptures' that locate the political function of human rights activism precisely in the resistance to representations of violence in conflict discourses. I analyse this political function by asking how activists translate human rights norms, transform conflict discourses, and thereby contest power relations. As examples, the article presents three types of discursive politics that I studied in Colombia. These examples point out further pathways to pose empirical questions about the roles of human rights activism in transforming social conflicts.
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- Gibbon, J., et al.
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Thinking Like an Artist-Researcher about War
- 2017
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Ingår i: Millennium-Journal of International Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0305-8298 .- 1477-9021. ; 45:2, s. 249-257
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