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Hegemony and strategic culture: American power projection and alliance defence politics
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The whole field of strategic studies bears the crippling legacy of having abstracted question of war and peace from their embeddedness in historically produced relations of social movements, political economy and culture as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
The whole field of Strategic Studies bears the crippling legacy of having abstracted question of war and peace from their embeddedness in historically produced relations of social movements, political economy and culture. The very objects of strategic analysis—states and their mutual security alliances—are presumed to have been there from the start. And the principles underpinning their interactions are likewise construed as consistent with the rules governing a state system first made evident in Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War.read more
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Gramsci, hegemonía y relaciones internacionales: Un ensayo sobre el método | Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method
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Structural Power: The limits of neorealist power analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose that any power analysis should necessarily include a pair or dyad of concepts of power, linking agent power and impersonal governance, and sketch some consequences of those concepts for international theory.
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Patterns of Dissent and the Celebration of Difference: Critical Social Theory and International Relations
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TL;DR: The authors locates prominent themes in critical international relations thinking within the wider arc of debates in Western social theory-interdisciplinary, intercontinental debates whose questions include the Enlightenment concepts of history, rationality, and truth; the subject/object and agent/structure oppositions; the relationship between language and social meaning; relationship between knowledge and power; the character and function of the human sciences; and the prospects for emancipatory politics today.
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International Relations and the Search for Thinking Space: Another View of the Third Debate
TL;DR: The authors take a broader view of the "third debate" in focusing on some of the broader patterns of dissent in social theory that are now evident in its literature and argue that for all the differences associated with the new critical social theory approaches, their is critique with common purpose.
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Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory
TL;DR: Critical theory as mentioned in this paper allows for a normative choice in favour of a social and political order different from the prevailing order, but it limits the range of choice to alternative orders which are feasible transformations of the existing world.
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