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5/20: Security Logic vs. Ownership Logic. Security logic: accumulate power to guarantee survival. There's an endpoint—stability, deterrence, a signed treaty. Ownership logic: accumulate to extract. No endpoint. Like capital itself, structurally expansionary. You stop when there's nothing left to acquire.

#NatSec #IRTheory #Strategy #Geopolitics

#IRTheory #stats #rstats #scaledevelopment
Continuing the thought from yesterday, after some further thinking.

It makes no sense to divide correlations. It's weird conceptually and also the numbers you get are hard to interpret. Rather it seems most straightforward to use reliability-attenuated correlations and apply a SESOI:

Cor_att = cor*sqrt(rel_a*rel_b)

Apply (crud-corrected) SESOI (Cohen's estimates _might_ work) or whatever is defensible based on the plausible parameter space.

#IRTheory #stats #rstats #scaledevelopment
Continuing the thought from yesterday, after some further thinking.

It makes no sense to divide correlations. It's weird conceptually and also the numbers you get are hard to interpret. Rather it seems most straightforward to use reliability-attenuated correlations and apply a SESOI:

Cor_att = cor*sqrt(rel_a*rel_b)

Apply (crud-corrected) SESOI (Cohen's estimates _might_ work) or whatever is defensible based on the plausible parameter space.

A groundbreaking work introducing Civilizational Pragmatism Theory (CPT) — a powerful new framework for understanding Chinese international relations, strategic behavior, and global power dynamics. Dr. Naim Tahir Baig presents a modern paradigm that reshapes how nations interact in a rapidly shifting world.
#CPT #CivilizationalPragmatism #InternationalRelations #ChinaStudies #GlobalPolitics #IRTheory #Geopolitics #NewBook #DrNaimTahirBaig #BookLaunch

2/ Then articulates 5 main an-pac contributions on: #fetishization of #violence; chronic sliding towards systemic #militarism; intersectional state-enforced #exploitation/#domination; structurings of international politics (current & potential); & questions of #politicalagency

Throughout & towards end, positions these ideas against more established schools of #IRtheory, from #justwartheory to #realism, #liberalism, #Marxism, #poststructuralism, #feminism & others.

Then articulates 5 main an-pac contributions on: #fetishization of #violence; chronic sliding towards systemic #militarism; intersectional state-enforced #exploitation/#domination; structurings of international politics (current & potential); & questions of #politicalagency.

Throughout & towards end, positions these ideas against more established schools of #IRtheory, from #justwartheory to #realism, #liberalism, #Marxism, #poststructuralism, #feminism & others.

Then articulates 5 main an-pac contributions on: #fetishization of #violence; chronic sliding towards systemic #militarism; intersectional state-enforced #exploitation/#domination; structurings of international politics (current & potential); & questions of #politicalagency.

Throughout & towards end, positions these ideas against more established schools of #IRtheory, from #justwartheory to #realism, #liberalism, #Marxism, #poststructuralism, #feminism & others.

[Continued] Then articulates 5 main an-pac contributions on: #fetishization of #violence; chronic sliding towards systemic #militarism; intersectional state-enforced #exploitation/#domination; structurings of international politics (current & potential); & questions of #politicalagency.

Throughout & towards end, positions these ideas against more established schools of #IRtheory, from #justwartheory to #realism, #liberalism, #Marxism, #poststructuralism, #feminism & others.

This looks really interesting!

@politicalscience

#anarchy #IRtheory #apsr #anthropocene

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/anarchy-scarcity-nature-rousseaus-stag-hunt-and-the-arctic-walrus-hunt-compared/B7309BBFA565C1A398C899BA53965FA1#

This looks really interesting!

#anarchy #IRtheory #apsr #anthropocene

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/anarchy-scarcity-nature-rousseaus-stag-hunt-and-the-arctic-walrus-hunt-compared/B7309BBFA565C1A398C899BA53965FA1#

So saddened to hear of Prof Andrew Linklater’s passing. He was a true disciplinary pioneer, carving out space for so much critical work in International Relations, particularly for theorists like me. His work ranged from Hegel and Marx to just war theory, from cosmopolitanism to Elias’s process sociology. He was happy to take a punt on my incoherent PhD project in 2001 and supported from then on. He loved single malts and jazz.

https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/interpol/staff-profiles/listing/profile/adl/

#InternationalRelations #IRTheory

So saddened to hear of Prof Andrew Linklater’s passing. He was a true disciplinary pioneer, carving out space for so much critical work in International Relations, particularly for theorists like me. His work ranged from Hegel and Marx to just war theory, from cosmopolitanism to Elias’s process sociology. He was happy to take a punt on my incoherent PhD project in 2001 and supported from then on. He loved single malts and jazz.

https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/interpol/staff-profiles/listing/profile/adl/

#InternationalRelations #IRTheory

I’ve just drafted the first ever textbook chapter on anarchist IR theory. Woo!!

Anarchist international theory dates back to Proudhon’s War and Peace (1861), and was developed by e.g., Noam Chomsky, Richard Falk, Thomas Weiss, and many more since the 1990s.

Despite centrality of anarchy to IR, few know this history/theory, and it’s telling that the textbook (and my chapter) will be published in Spanish, while the references are all to English language texts.

@politicalscience #IRTheory

I’ve just drafted the first ever textbook chapter on anarchist IR theory. Woo!!

Anarchist international theory dates back to Proudhon’s War and Peace (1861), and was developed by e.g., Noam Chomsky, Richard Falk, Thomas Weiss, and many more since the 1990s.

Despite centrality of anarchy to IR, few know this history/theory, and it’s telling that the textbook (and my chapter) will be published in Spanish, while the references are all to English language texts.

@politicalscience #IRTheory

On 7 December, 15:00-1700, the EUI Intellectual History Working Group will host a lecture by Matthew Specter (Berkeley) on his book that explores nineteenth-century origins of political realism, "The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought between Germany and the United States" (Stanford UP, 2022). Alongside the in-person event there will be a live-stream. For details and registration: https://www.eui.eu/events?id=554033&fbclid=IwAR17AMFi-qNtLh828FL_cc15rZXqlPQ8PpCrOyrNT2jl6jEQEFefyGLJU9A
@histodons @intellectualhistory #internationalrelations #irtheory

Thomas Risse came to Exeter to introduce this book a couple of weeks ago. Great sessions and a very generous guy. In my comments I made the slightly provocative claim that this is the first empirical proof of anarchism - by non-anarchists. He laughed nervously. There are gaps (e.g., class, global north), but this is well worth a read for anyone interested in #MajorityWorld #irtheory #anthropologyofthestate #development and #anarchism I’ll write a review next year.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/effective-governance-under-anarchy/28FE020C4AABAA4BEE00BBED90465255

https://iris.unive.it/handle/10278/5008856 Play and Counter-Conduct: Migrant Domestic Workers on TikTok (November 2022 Working Draft) #migrationstudies #feministpoliticaleconomy #resistance #counterconduct #knowingDOM #IRtheory

https://iris.unive.it/handle/10278/5008856 Play and Counter-Conduct: Migrant Domestic Workers on TikTok (November 2022 Working Draft) #migrationstudies #feministpoliticaleconomy #resistance #counterconduct #knowingDOM #IRtheory

#Proudhon ‘s War and Peace reviewed in the New York Times, September 2, 1861.

https://www.nytimes.com/1861/09/02/archives/proudhon-on-war-and-peace-war-and-peace-researches-on-the-principle.html

Now finally available in English translation. Arguably his most important work, but only one of seven books he wrote on #internationalrelations

https://www.akpress.org/war-and-peace.html

#poltheory #irtheory

So #twittermigration caught me too. I am a social scientist studying #internationalrelations, #Diaspora, #migration, #irtheory, and more.