PSCI 3601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: International Political Sociology, Historical Sociology, Political Philosophy
10 Jun 2018
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The Global Beyond IR theory: international political theory and Sociology
Lecture 10
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Some standard conceptions of globalization and its consequences:
• Deterritorialization
• Westernization/Americanization
• Intensification, extensification, acceleration, and
increased impact of worldwide social interconnectedness
→ Blurring of boundaries btw. domestic and international
→ Challenges to state sovereignty
= Challenges to the raison d’être of (traditional) IR theory … creating space for IPT and
IPS
Introduction: IR theory, IPT& IPS
International Political Theory
• IR in the history of political thought (e.g. CR, ES, DP)
• Normative theory (e.g. cosmopolitanism vs. communitarianism, global justice, global
ethics)
• Political Theory’s “discovery” of the international/ global (e.g. Habermas, Rawls, Negri,
Mouffe)
International Political Sociology
• “Avant la lettre” (e.g. IR constructivism, historical sociology, soc. institutionalism,
systems theory)
• Beyond IR constructivism (e.g. securitization, governmentality, practice theory, ANT)
Hardt and Negri Empire
Background:
• Debates of (U.S.) imperialism (esp. on the Left)
• Post-Cold War international politics and globalization
Premises:
• globalization not only economic
and cultural, but also political
• new quality of globalization
(based on information economy)
has spelled the end of (sovereign-state) imperialism
Argument: Empire …
• is the political correlate of globalization and a new, decentralized and global form of
sovereignty (power over the exception)
Fundamental challenge
for IR theory?
↓
Need for new
theoretical approaches
(e.g. IPT, IPS)
Merely a new subject
matter for IR theory?
↓
Accommodation by
existing theories
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Document Summary
The global beyond ir theory: international political theory and sociology. Need for (cid:862)new(cid:863) theoretical approaches (e. g. ipt, ips) Some standard conceptions of globalization and its consequences: Intensification, extensification, acceleration, and increased impact of worldwide social interconnectedness. Blurring of boundaries btw. domestic and international. = challenges to the raison d" tre of (traditional) ir theory. Ir in the history of political thought (e. g. cr, es, dp: normative theory (e. g. cosmopolitanism vs. communitarianism, global justice, global ethics, political theory"s discovery of the international/ global (e. g. habermas, rawls, negri, International political sociology: avant la lettre (e. g. ir constructivism, historical sociology, soc. institutionalism, systems theory, beyond ir constructivism (e. g. securitization, governmentality, practice theory, ant) Background: debates of (u. s. ) imperialism (esp. on the left, post-cold war international politics and globalization. Premises: globalization not only economic and cultural, but also political, new quality of globalization (based on information economy) has spelled the end of (sovereign-state) imperialism.
