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Papers by Aida Hozic
International Relations, Feb 4, 2021
Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis by Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton makes a persuasive... more Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis by Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton makes a persuasive case for the enduring relevance of historical materialism as the hermeneutical tool for analysis and understanding of contemporary political economy.1 The most interesting aspect of the book – and the one which sets it apart from other recent critical works in International Political Economy (IPE) in the same tradition – is the concept of ‘internal relations’, which allows Bieler and Morton to endogenise wars and crises within the capitalism itself.2 Arguing against the habitual dualisms in the discipline of International Relations – between states and markets, agents and structures, material conditions and ideologies – Bieler and Morton suggest instead that global capitalism, war and crisis should be analysed ‘in terms of their internality’.3 Their ‘relational method’ thus ‘captures capital’s internalisation through the states system of uneven and combined development, geopolitics and the global crisis conditions facing humanity that are themselves embedded within world ecology’.4 In this intervention, I would like to elaborate upon this ‘radical ontology’ of ‘internal relations’ from the perspective of feminist IPE. There are significant overlaps between feminist IPE and Bieler and Morton’s analysis in this book, none the least their effort to integrate what Nancy Fraser aptly calls ‘Marx’s hidden abode’ – the background conditions of expropriation and social reproduction – with Marx’s ‘front story’ of exploitation and capitalist production.5 However, while Bieler and Morton noticeably expand Marx’s framework to incorporate and relate aspects of the Gramscian ‘social factory’ within the world of class struggle and geopolitical contestations, feminists begin their analyses by looking at the world through the lens of gendered hierarchies and embodied (rather than
Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-soviet Democratization, Sep 22, 2016
This article analyzes the 2014 Russian intervention in Ukraine as a prime example of autocratic d... more This article analyzes the 2014 Russian intervention in Ukraine as a prime example of autocratic diffusion-proofing. First, it provides examples to flesh out the relatively new concept of diffusion-proofing. Next, it reviews three bodies of literature — studies of realism, competitive authoritarian regimes and the decision calculus of authoritarian rulers—in order to identify key elements driving the Russian decision to invade Ukraine. Finally, it provides insight into how Russians developed their repertoire of intervention by relating the concept of diffusion-proofing to reputation-proofing. The article concludes by highlighting important implications for future studies of authoritarianism and international aggression.
Review of International Political Economy, Apr 8, 2020
This article seeks to illuminate structural limits of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) by analys... more This article seeks to illuminate structural limits of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) by analysing the interplay between economic and fiscal reforms, promoted by International Financial Institutions (IFIs), and gender budgeting initiatives in the Western Balkans. GRB is the core concept bridging revenue mobilization and gender equality in the work of IFIs. However, as the Western Balkans experience demonstrates, GRB initiatives are best characterized as "empty gestures" towards gender equality as they cannot compensate for the continued adverse effects of IFIs overall policies.
Oxford University Press eBooks, May 1, 2016
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Jul 3, 2015
Abstract This essay explores four themes that run as a thread through recent writings about the g... more Abstract This essay explores four themes that run as a thread through recent writings about the genocide in Srebrenica and its aftermath: systemic and premeditated character of violence used by the Bosnian Serb forces during the war, which still echoes in politics of Republic Srpska; delicate politics of witnessing and identification which draws Srebrenica's survivors into the courts but also into the past; layered yet often self-serving interests circling around Srebrenica and annual commemorations in Potočari; and changing, multiple and, at times, conflicting understandings of “community” since the war. The essay draws on four books—Sarah Wagner's To Know Where He Lies, Hariz Halilovich's Places of Pain, Robert Donia's Radovan Karadžić: Architect of the Bosnian Genocide, and Lara Nettelfield and Sarah Wagner's Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide.
Review of International Political Economy, Apr 8, 2020
Abstract This paper provides a framework for explicitly linking feminist analysis of global polit... more Abstract This paper provides a framework for explicitly linking feminist analysis of global political economy and feminist analysis of war/peace through the concept of ‘gendered circuits of violence.’ The framework connects the gendered economics of peace and war through analyses of standard policy mechanisms promoted by International Financial Institutions and International Organizations—from general debt servicing and lending in post-war recovery to microfinance programmes, extractive resource economics, taxation, budgeting and austerity in the state sector. With gendered circuits of violence as the core concept, feminist political economy analysis transgresses security-IPE-development divides. Gendered circuits of violence are manifest through bodies that are carriers of violence from war zones to areas of alleged peace; through IFIs as distributors of harm and comfort to transnational households; and in the interstitial post-conflict spaces created by remittances, care and debt. Feminist analysis reveals the imbrication of capitalist systems with the intersectional politics of gender and race, and the (re)production and diffusion of violent conflict.
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Dec 21, 2016
as part of a special issue on 'Images, Narratives and Sounds'. 1 The article drew a line between ... more as part of a special issue on 'Images, Narratives and Sounds'. 1 The article drew a line between mimetic approaches to international relations, which did not 'pay enough attention to the relationship between the represented and its representation', and aesthetic approaches, which directly engaged 'the gap that inevitably opens up between a form of representation and the object it seeks to represent'. 2 Arguing that 'representation is always an act of power', 3 Bleiker's key message was that the gist of politics resided precisely within that gap. The article called for a different way of thinking about the international, one that would 'employ the full register of human perception and intelligence', and bring about 'a shift away from the harmonious common sense imposed by a few dominant faculties towards a model of thought that enables productive flows across a variety of discordant faculties'. 4
Oxford University Press eBooks, Jul 29, 2014
... Bunce, Nada Hozic, Eric Lott, Laura Oaksmith, Hector Schamis, Daria Sito, Cheryl Roberts, Bri... more ... Bunce, Nada Hozic, Eric Lott, Laura Oaksmith, Hector Schamis, Daria Sito, Cheryl Roberts, Brian Schott, Terry Geesken, Aaron Presnall, Mine Eder, Orson Watson, Anna Eliasson, Ralph and Libby Cohen, The Kibbutz Cohen, Slobodan Miseljic, Boris Vujovic, Zillah Eisenstein ...
Review of International Political Economy, Jan 2, 2023
Review of International Political Economy, 2022
Hegemony or Empire?, 2016
Postcolonial Studies, 2016
Dayton, WPS and the entrenched "manliness" of ethnic powersharing peace agreements 4 comments | 3... more Dayton, WPS and the entrenched "manliness" of ethnic powersharing peace agreements 4 comments | 36 shares Estimated reading time: 5 minutes In this long-read Aida A. Hozić critiques the Dayton Peace Agreement and the problems associated with ethic power-sharing peace agreements where gendered political and socioeconomic policies only serve to strengthen divisions. From Brussels to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Aida tells us why we must pay attention to the limits of "manly" peace agreements which neglect gender, and instead continue to work for gendered justice and peace simultaneously.
Problems of Post-Communism, 2004
... The political interventions to protect US tobacco in-terests echo Richard Sklar's co... more ... The political interventions to protect US tobacco in-terests echo Richard Sklar's comments to the ... Instead, the Balkans, like Burma or the Triple Frontier separating Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay ... Ignoring the long history of contraband activities and their role in the construction of ...
Slavic Review, 2006
... a U n a B o s n a D r i n a D rina P iva Lake Scutari ADRIATIC SEA K r i v a j a L im N e r e... more ... a U n a B o s n a D r i n a D rina P iva Lake Scutari ADRIATIC SEA K r i v a j a L im N e r e tv a T a r a D r in a Spreca a k sr otoK akoB Busko jezero à Ramsko jezero Jablanicko jezero à Hvar Korcula Lastovo Mljet Solta Mali Drvenik Veliki Drvenik Pakleni Otoci Vis Svetac D a l ...
International Relations, Feb 4, 2021
Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis by Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton makes a persuasive... more Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis by Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton makes a persuasive case for the enduring relevance of historical materialism as the hermeneutical tool for analysis and understanding of contemporary political economy.1 The most interesting aspect of the book – and the one which sets it apart from other recent critical works in International Political Economy (IPE) in the same tradition – is the concept of ‘internal relations’, which allows Bieler and Morton to endogenise wars and crises within the capitalism itself.2 Arguing against the habitual dualisms in the discipline of International Relations – between states and markets, agents and structures, material conditions and ideologies – Bieler and Morton suggest instead that global capitalism, war and crisis should be analysed ‘in terms of their internality’.3 Their ‘relational method’ thus ‘captures capital’s internalisation through the states system of uneven and combined development, geopolitics and the global crisis conditions facing humanity that are themselves embedded within world ecology’.4 In this intervention, I would like to elaborate upon this ‘radical ontology’ of ‘internal relations’ from the perspective of feminist IPE. There are significant overlaps between feminist IPE and Bieler and Morton’s analysis in this book, none the least their effort to integrate what Nancy Fraser aptly calls ‘Marx’s hidden abode’ – the background conditions of expropriation and social reproduction – with Marx’s ‘front story’ of exploitation and capitalist production.5 However, while Bieler and Morton noticeably expand Marx’s framework to incorporate and relate aspects of the Gramscian ‘social factory’ within the world of class struggle and geopolitical contestations, feminists begin their analyses by looking at the world through the lens of gendered hierarchies and embodied (rather than
Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-soviet Democratization, Sep 22, 2016
This article analyzes the 2014 Russian intervention in Ukraine as a prime example of autocratic d... more This article analyzes the 2014 Russian intervention in Ukraine as a prime example of autocratic diffusion-proofing. First, it provides examples to flesh out the relatively new concept of diffusion-proofing. Next, it reviews three bodies of literature — studies of realism, competitive authoritarian regimes and the decision calculus of authoritarian rulers—in order to identify key elements driving the Russian decision to invade Ukraine. Finally, it provides insight into how Russians developed their repertoire of intervention by relating the concept of diffusion-proofing to reputation-proofing. The article concludes by highlighting important implications for future studies of authoritarianism and international aggression.
Review of International Political Economy, Apr 8, 2020
This article seeks to illuminate structural limits of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) by analys... more This article seeks to illuminate structural limits of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) by analysing the interplay between economic and fiscal reforms, promoted by International Financial Institutions (IFIs), and gender budgeting initiatives in the Western Balkans. GRB is the core concept bridging revenue mobilization and gender equality in the work of IFIs. However, as the Western Balkans experience demonstrates, GRB initiatives are best characterized as "empty gestures" towards gender equality as they cannot compensate for the continued adverse effects of IFIs overall policies.
Oxford University Press eBooks, May 1, 2016
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Jul 3, 2015
Abstract This essay explores four themes that run as a thread through recent writings about the g... more Abstract This essay explores four themes that run as a thread through recent writings about the genocide in Srebrenica and its aftermath: systemic and premeditated character of violence used by the Bosnian Serb forces during the war, which still echoes in politics of Republic Srpska; delicate politics of witnessing and identification which draws Srebrenica's survivors into the courts but also into the past; layered yet often self-serving interests circling around Srebrenica and annual commemorations in Potočari; and changing, multiple and, at times, conflicting understandings of “community” since the war. The essay draws on four books—Sarah Wagner's To Know Where He Lies, Hariz Halilovich's Places of Pain, Robert Donia's Radovan Karadžić: Architect of the Bosnian Genocide, and Lara Nettelfield and Sarah Wagner's Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide.
Review of International Political Economy, Apr 8, 2020
Abstract This paper provides a framework for explicitly linking feminist analysis of global polit... more Abstract This paper provides a framework for explicitly linking feminist analysis of global political economy and feminist analysis of war/peace through the concept of ‘gendered circuits of violence.’ The framework connects the gendered economics of peace and war through analyses of standard policy mechanisms promoted by International Financial Institutions and International Organizations—from general debt servicing and lending in post-war recovery to microfinance programmes, extractive resource economics, taxation, budgeting and austerity in the state sector. With gendered circuits of violence as the core concept, feminist political economy analysis transgresses security-IPE-development divides. Gendered circuits of violence are manifest through bodies that are carriers of violence from war zones to areas of alleged peace; through IFIs as distributors of harm and comfort to transnational households; and in the interstitial post-conflict spaces created by remittances, care and debt. Feminist analysis reveals the imbrication of capitalist systems with the intersectional politics of gender and race, and the (re)production and diffusion of violent conflict.
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Dec 21, 2016
as part of a special issue on 'Images, Narratives and Sounds'. 1 The article drew a line between ... more as part of a special issue on 'Images, Narratives and Sounds'. 1 The article drew a line between mimetic approaches to international relations, which did not 'pay enough attention to the relationship between the represented and its representation', and aesthetic approaches, which directly engaged 'the gap that inevitably opens up between a form of representation and the object it seeks to represent'. 2 Arguing that 'representation is always an act of power', 3 Bleiker's key message was that the gist of politics resided precisely within that gap. The article called for a different way of thinking about the international, one that would 'employ the full register of human perception and intelligence', and bring about 'a shift away from the harmonious common sense imposed by a few dominant faculties towards a model of thought that enables productive flows across a variety of discordant faculties'. 4
Oxford University Press eBooks, Jul 29, 2014
... Bunce, Nada Hozic, Eric Lott, Laura Oaksmith, Hector Schamis, Daria Sito, Cheryl Roberts, Bri... more ... Bunce, Nada Hozic, Eric Lott, Laura Oaksmith, Hector Schamis, Daria Sito, Cheryl Roberts, Brian Schott, Terry Geesken, Aaron Presnall, Mine Eder, Orson Watson, Anna Eliasson, Ralph and Libby Cohen, The Kibbutz Cohen, Slobodan Miseljic, Boris Vujovic, Zillah Eisenstein ...
Review of International Political Economy, Jan 2, 2023
Review of International Political Economy, 2022
Hegemony or Empire?, 2016
Postcolonial Studies, 2016
Dayton, WPS and the entrenched "manliness" of ethnic powersharing peace agreements 4 comments | 3... more Dayton, WPS and the entrenched "manliness" of ethnic powersharing peace agreements 4 comments | 36 shares Estimated reading time: 5 minutes In this long-read Aida A. Hozić critiques the Dayton Peace Agreement and the problems associated with ethic power-sharing peace agreements where gendered political and socioeconomic policies only serve to strengthen divisions. From Brussels to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Aida tells us why we must pay attention to the limits of "manly" peace agreements which neglect gender, and instead continue to work for gendered justice and peace simultaneously.
Problems of Post-Communism, 2004
... The political interventions to protect US tobacco in-terests echo Richard Sklar's co... more ... The political interventions to protect US tobacco in-terests echo Richard Sklar's comments to the ... Instead, the Balkans, like Burma or the Triple Frontier separating Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay ... Ignoring the long history of contraband activities and their role in the construction of ...
Slavic Review, 2006
... a U n a B o s n a D r i n a D rina P iva Lake Scutari ADRIATIC SEA K r i v a j a L im N e r e... more ... a U n a B o s n a D r i n a D rina P iva Lake Scutari ADRIATIC SEA K r i v a j a L im N e r e tv a T a r a D r in a Spreca a k sr otoK akoB Busko jezero à Ramsko jezero Jablanicko jezero à Hvar Korcula Lastovo Mljet Solta Mali Drvenik Veliki Drvenik Pakleni Otoci Vis Svetac D a l ...