Papers by Arlene B. Tickner
Millennium: Journal of International Studies
This forum reconsiders the standing of ‘the international’ in relation to ‘critique’. Is this rel... more This forum reconsiders the standing of ‘the international’ in relation to ‘critique’. Is this relation best understood in ways reminiscent of the ‘Fourth Great Debate’, where the international, associated with political realism, was targeted for deconstruction by critical approaches drawn from outside International Relations? Or is the international, on the contrary, itself a source of potential critique needing to be excavated and utilized, as recent debates on ‘societal multiplicity’ and Uneven and Combined Development have suggested? In this forum, seven international theorists debate the latter question from a range of intellectual perspectives.
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Universidad de los Andes eBooks, Nov 1, 2017
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Ediciones Uniandes eBooks, 1997
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Norm research in international relations, 2023
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Routledge eBooks, Aug 10, 2022
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Springer eBooks, Jan 22, 2008
Current processes of globalization are transforming the world’s social and political geography. M... more Current processes of globalization are transforming the world’s social and political geography. Many new socio-spatial arrangements are discontinuous with state jurisdictions and increasingly incompatible with the territorial principle of sovereignty (Inayatullah/ Blaney 2004; Mason 2005). This spatial reconfiguration is vividly illustrated by the deterritorialization of security in the post-Cold War era. Security domains are not only located above, below, and alongside the territorial state, but they also are intertwined with and superimposed upon other such spaces, presenting a global security matrix at odds with state-centric epistemologies (Walker 1993; Agnew 1994; Brenner 1999). This multiplicity of security sites that characterizes contemporary global order encompasses a wide range of values, actors, and dynamics that transcend the conventional national security model.
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University of Pittsburgh Press eBooks, Sep 7, 2017
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Foreign affairs: Latinoamérica, 2020
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Thinking International Relations Differently, 2013
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International Studies Perspectives, 2020
Difference, a central concern to the study of international relations (IR), has not had its ontol... more Difference, a central concern to the study of international relations (IR), has not had its ontological foundations adequately disrupted. This forum explores how existential assumptions rooted in relational logics provide a significantly distinct set of tools that drive us to re-orient how we perceive, interpret, and engage both similarity and difference. Taking their cues from cosmological commitments originating in the Andes, South Asia, East Asia, and the Middle East, the six contributions explore how our existential assumptions affect the ways in which we deal with difference as theorists, researchers, and teachers. This initial conversation pinpoints key content and foci of future relational work in IR.
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Colombia Internacional, 2000
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Security Dialogue, 2021
Introduction Controversy over an article written by Allison Howell and Melanie Richter-Montpetit ... more Introduction Controversy over an article written by Allison Howell and Melanie Richter-Montpetit (2020) on securitization theory’s supposed anti-Black thinking and methodological whiteness, a detailed rejoinder by two of the Copenhagen School’s main representatives that faults the authors’ analysis for poor scholarship and ‘deep fake’ methodology (Wæver and Buzan, 2020; see also Hansen, 2020), and the subsequent backlash towards the senior male scholars’ alleged attack against their female detractors form a telling episode of parochial academic theater. While this insular debate raged on social media, the streets of the United States and elsewhere were ablaze with massive protests against a very tangible form of racism, namely, police brutality. Protesters’ forceful assertion that Black lives matter and that racism is a structural problem globally makes it almost impossible not to think about problems of race. Yet similar claims have long been made by Black, critical race, and post/decolonial studies, while the manifestations of this systemic problem pervade the everyday lives of Black, indigenous, and people of color in rich/poor, developed/developing, and powerful/weak states alike. Let’s face it: the academy in general, the field of international relations, and the subfield of security studies all bear similar marks of the white, Western, imperial, man’s world. This is especially clear to those who engage in international relations, as we do, from diverse locations in the global South. Although a growing body of literature has emerged on race and racism in world politics that has unearthed the foundational role played by the global color line, colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy in both the constitution of a hierarchical and racialized order and the creation of the discipline (e.g. Anievas et al., 2015; Chowdhry
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What have we learned after taking this global tour of International Relations scholarship? Each o... more What have we learned after taking this global tour of International Relations scholarship? Each of the chapters offers a number of fascinating and unique insights into the ways in which IR has evolved and is practiced in distinct sites around the world. These different snapshots, in and of themselves, are invaluable, especially given the paltry state of knowledge about the discipline in nearly all corners of the globe. Furthermore, although a fair degree of literature actually does exist about the political, social, and economic environments that characterize these diverse countries and regions, exploring the ways in which their varying geocultural traits inform and condition scholarly activity in International Relations serves our dual purpose of stretching the field’s boundaries (thus doing justice to its “international” label) and contributing to greater self-reflexivity within it
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El objetivo central del taller es explorar el estado actual y las perspectivas futuras de las Rel... more El objetivo central del taller es explorar el estado actual y las perspectivas futuras de las Relaciones Internacionales en America Latina, con miras a identificar las tendencias principales que se observan en la disciplina, asi como en la investigacion de tematicas especificas, entre ellas la integracion y el regionalismo, la politica exterior y la seguridad. El taller contara con la participacion de reconocidos academicos pertenecientes a la disciplina, provenientes de distintos paises de la region, asi como de Colombia. Ademas de indagar acerca del estado y los aportes de las RI latinoamericanas a la comprension de distintos fenomenos mundiales, el Taller Internacional sera la ocasion para sentar las bases de una red regional de internacionalistas.
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Latin America in Global International Relations, 2021
Latin America has produced its fair share of autochthonous concepts and ideas, such as dependence... more Latin America has produced its fair share of autochthonous concepts and ideas, such as dependence and autonomy. However, for the most part academic production within the field of International Relations (IR) operates within disciplinary limits as established in the North and is accepting of them, at least in epistemological and ontological terms. Instead of making distinct regional contributions to IR as conventionally understood visible, the purpose of this chapter is to examine alternative and unsettling ways of thinking about the world that are also present in Latin American thinking but that are potentially incommensurate with customary interpretations of global politics. The chapter’s invitation to unsettle IR is conducted through examination of theology, pedagogy and methodology of liberation, more commonly known as participatory action research (PAR), and relational indigenous and Afro-descendent thought, both of which are key precursors of decolonial theory.
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Papers by Arlene B. Tickner
Divided into four sections, (1) the IR discipline, (2) key concepts and categories, (3) global issues and (4) IR futures, it examines the ways in which world politics have been addressed by traditional core approaches and explores the limitations of these treatments for understanding both Southern and Northern experiences of the "international." The book encourages readers to consider how key ideas have been developed in the discipline, and through systematic interventions by contributors from around the globe, aims at both transforming and enriching the dominant terms of scholarly debate.
This empowering, critical and reflexive tool for thinking about the diversity of experiences of international relations and for placing them front and center in the classroom will help professors and students in both the global North and the global South envision the world differently. In addition to general, introductory IR courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels it will appeal to courses on sociology and historiography of knowledge, globalization, neoliberalism, security, the state, imperialism and international political economy.