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American Journal of Sociology, Mar 1, 2016

Routledge eBooks, Oct 18, 2022

Power and Marginality in the International System: A Historical Perspective Pertti Joenniemi and ... more Power and Marginality in the International System: A Historical Perspective Pertti Joenniemi and Noel Parker The Changing Scope for the Marginal It was argued in Chapter 1 that a political entityEurope or any other possesses a certain geometry deploying its components in ...

Macmillan , St. Martin's Press eBooks, 2000

Routledge eBooks, Jun 3, 2014

* T.W. Adomo, * Louis Athusser, * Hannah Arendt, * Raymond Aron, * Simone de Beauvoir, * Daniel B... more * T.W. Adomo, * Louis Athusser, * Hannah Arendt, * Raymond Aron, * Simone de Beauvoir, * Daniel Bell, * Reinhard Bendix, * Isaiah Berlin, * Dietrich Bonhoeffer, * Pierre Bourdieu, * Ferdinand Braudel, * James Burnham, * Auguste Comte, * Robert Dahi, * Karl Deutsch, * Wilhelm Dithey, * Milovan Djilas, * Ernie Durkheim, * Roland Dworkan, * Norbert Elias, * Frantz Fanon, * Michel Foucault, * Sigmund Freud, * Betty Friedan, * Milton Firedman, * Richard Buckmaster Fuller, * J.K.Galbraith, * Clifford Geertz, * Ernest Geilner, * Andre Gorz, * Anthony Giddens, * Irving Goffman, * Antonio Gramsti, * Jurgen Huberman, * H.I.A. Hart, * Friedrich Hayel, * A. Hirshman, * Paul Hirst, J.A. Hobson, * Ivan Ilich, Carl Jung, * Maynard Keynes, * Melanie Klein, * Thomas Kulhn, * Ernesto Lacha and Chantal Mouffe, * R.D. Lang, Harold Ladd, * Charles-Edouard Le Courbusier, * V.I. Lenin, * Claude Levi-Strausse, * Georg Lukacs, * Rosa Luxembourg, * Jean-Francois Lyotard, * Alaistair McIntyre, * Marshall McLuhan, * C.R. Macpherson, * Ernest Mandel, * Karl Mannheim, * Mao Zedong, * Herbert Marcuse, * Jacques Martain, * T.H. Marshall, * Karl Marx, * Margaret Mead, * Robert Michels, * C. Wright Mills, * Gaetano Mosca, * Robert Nozick, * Michael Oakeshott, * Mancur Olson, * Vilfredo Paneto, * Talbort Parsons, * Carol Paterman, * Jean Piaget, * Ann Philips, * Karl Popper, * Nicoi Poulantzas, * John Rawls, * Paul Samuelson, * Joseph A. Schumpeter, * Georg Simmel, * Peter Singer, * B.F. Skinner, * Quenton Skinner, * Tomas Stasz, * R.H. Tawney, * Rene Thorn, * E.P. Thompson, * Paul Tilich, * Charles Tilly, * Alvin Toffler, * Leon Trotsky, * Thorstein Veblen, * Immanuel Wallerstein, * Michael Waltzer, * Max Weber, * Peter Winch, * Ludwig Wittgenstein, * Iris Marion Young.

Radical Philosophy, 1978

This article is not about what you will expect. It does not consider the theory of foci, the spec... more This article is not about what you will expect. It does not consider the theory of foci, the specificity of the class struggle in South American countries, or the role of the peasantry. All these things pose important theoretical questions. Moreover, it is for his writings on them that Debray is known. Debray was the first in the field, reporting back from Cuba on revolutionary tactics, employing his originality of mind to propose some profound changes in Marxist theory about the development of revolution. But none of that is my subject.

Journal of The British Society for Phenomenology, 1989

Journal of World History, 2003

Journal of political power, Dec 1, 2011

Those content to scan the contents list of Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper’s Empires in world h... more Those content to scan the contents list of Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper’s Empires in world history: power and the politics of difference would altogether miss its object. It begins predictably enough: ‘Imperial rule in Rome and China’, and then ’After Rome: Empire, Christianity and Islam’ followed by ‘Eurasian Connections: the Mongol Empires’. But Burbank and Cooper are after a bigger prize throughout their, by turns, properly analytic and selectively detailed history. The title ‘. . . in world history . . .’ gives more than a hint of what is special about this book: the conceptual apparatus deployed is intended to situate empires in world history. Burbank and Cooper examine empires as constantly evolving entities that develop and adopt practices which are dependent upon existing circumstances in order to sustain their maintenance and growth. It is through the process of their developing these so-called ‘repertoires’ that empires survive and prosper (or not), and come to impact world history. The sub-title (albeit a touch byzantine) refers to the most interesting of their ‘themes’: a slightly muted claim that empires have a better track record in the management of difference than the state-form we have become so accustomed to. Let us take Europe after Rome as a classic example of what is different about this approach. Their first theme in chapter 4 (‘Eurasian connections: the Mongol empires’) concerns the replacement of polytheism by monotheism, which addresses the question of ‘how to solve [the] problems inherent in the structure of empire: to capture the imaginations of people across a broad and differentiated space and how to keep intermediaries in line’ (2010, p. 90). But there are three instances of recourse to this: Western Europe (with Charlemagne’s hijacking of Roman authority), Byzantium (where a version of Christianity developed in closest proximity to the state), and (plainly outside ‘Europe’, and furthermore a largely successful rival to it) Islam. Monotheistic religion was a distinctive feature in the repertoire of each empire. So empires as monotheisms effectively replace ‘Europe’, which is often used as shorthand for ‘Western’ Europe, as the historical object of interest. When it comes down to it, the monotheistic shift in imperial repertoires was most successfully managed in the former African parts of the Roman Empire. Yet, on the other hand, as much as monotheism ‘provided a moral framework transcending locality’, it also ‘opened the door to schism’ (2010, p. 90) – doubly dangerous where, as in Western Europe again, it was combined with a princely aristocracy. Europe in its classic period of the ‘great leap forward to modernity and industrialization’ becomes, in Burbank and Cooper’s story, a Europe attempting Journal of Political Power Vol. 4, No. 3, December 2011, 451–455

Identities-global Studies in Culture and Power, Jul 1, 2002

... the rationale of Nordic independence for a century and more. Mouritzen (1995) thus saw Sweden... more ... the rationale of Nordic independence for a century and more. Mouritzen (1995) thus saw Sweden&amp;amp;#x27;s abandonment of its central role as the “fall” of the Nordic model in foreign policy per se. Holbraad, at the end of a study of the ...

Geopolitics, Jan 29, 2010

This article analyses the ingredients of empire as a pattern of order with geopolitical effects. ... more This article analyses the ingredients of empire as a pattern of order with geopolitical effects. Noting the imperial form&amp;#x27;s proclivity for expansion from a critical reading of historical sociology, the article argues that the principal manifestation of earlier geopolitics lay not in the nation but in ...

Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Jun 27, 2019

The articles in the present issue update, exemplify and deepen the ideas on Europe's margins that... more The articles in the present issue update, exemplify and deepen the ideas on Europe's margins that I and fellow researchers developed in the context of the 1990s enlargement. There are two broad categories of pressure from the margins of Europe upon its centre: attempts to reinterpret and/or relocate Europe's central identity; and attempts to challenge it, by claiming alternative identities for Europe. Articles examining the latter are particularly fruitful in terms of modifying our theorizations of the margins. The article goes on to sketch out a notion of 'seeing like a margin' (with obvious forebears!). There is frequently more insight in seeing like a margins than seeing from the centre. On the other hand, especially at present, a number of 'pathologies of the margin' are arising, where misleading claims about being marginalized are made, especially by populist politicians who push bogus solutions.

Journal of The British Society for Phenomenology, 1988

Journal of political power, Dec 1, 2011

... DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2011.628565 Noel Parker a * pages 355-374. ... In that sense, it tries ... more ... DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2011.628565 Noel Parker a * pages 355-374. ... In that sense, it tries to understand how Europe's dynamic of empire evolved into an American one – the better to grasp the nature of the affinity between the two (see also Parker 200947. Parker, Noel. 2009. ...

Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2008

This book begins with an idea of something which easily goes unnoticed: forces and processes at w... more This book begins with an idea of something which easily goes unnoticed: forces and processes at work on the disregarded margins of highly visible orders, such as in Europe and the other visible blocs of our world, which may challenge, or even reshape, those apparently given realities. The expectation that we could find forces and processes on the margins underpinned our project. Properly considered, that thought suggests that if we look carefully at the margins of larger, substantial entities, such as the socio-political order called “Europe,” we can find interactions between the margins and the center. As I seek to demonstrate in this introduction, we can anticipate that, in such interactions, margins will exhibit three surprising types of effect: dynamics peculiar to their marginality; independent scope vis-a-vis the ostensibly dominant center or centers; and/or a potential to impact on the center(s), perhaps even to the extent of “reshaping” it.

Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2008

American Journal of Sociology, Mar 1, 2016

Routledge eBooks, Oct 18, 2022

Macmillan , St. Martin's Press eBooks, 2000

Routledge eBooks, Jun 3, 2014

Radical Philosophy, 1978

Journal of The British Society for Phenomenology, 1989

Journal of World History, 2003

Journal of political power, Dec 1, 2011

Identities-global Studies in Culture and Power, Jul 1, 2002

Geopolitics, Jan 29, 2010

Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Jun 27, 2019

Journal of The British Society for Phenomenology, 1988

Journal of political power, Dec 1, 2011

Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2008

While concepts of a postinternational politics properly highlight the constant variance of entiti... more While concepts of a postinternational politics properly highlight the constant variance of entities in play in international relations , the approach lacks an ontology that shows how such an unstable variety of types of players can coexist in a common field in the first place. This article draws upon Deleuze's philosophy to set out an ontology in which the continual reformulation of entities in play in " postinternational " society can be grasped. This entails a strategic shift from speaking about the " borders " between sovereign states to referring instead to the " margins " between a plethora of entities that are ever open to modifications of identity. The concept of the margin possesses a much wider reach than borders, and focuses continual attention on the meetings and interactions between a range of indeterminate entities whose interactions may determine both themselves and the types of entity that are in play.

Lines in the Sand? Towards an Agenda for Critical Border Studies , 2009

The starting point of the ‘Lines in the Sand?’ programme is expressed in our title, the idea of l... more The starting point of the ‘Lines in the Sand?’ programme is expressed in our title, the idea of lines in a shifting medium. The most common use of the expression today is to reject further concessions. The expression is intoned in political debate to argue that the other side has already been given too much ground, and that, as the speaker will then demand, ‘It is time to draw a line in the sand.’ There are puzzles about the origins of this expression –
not least that the original biblical text (John 8:6) refers not to ‘sand’, but to ‘ground’. Those who use it seem, nonetheless, to lean on the majestic fixity in God himself drawing a line which no one dares to cross. Yet perhaps it is not by chance that the line in the expression has been relocated from the more solid medium of ‘ground’ to the shifting one of ‘sand’. For it is precisely that which must haunt our discussion of borders: the pathos of merely human acts to draw fixed and tangible territorial lines and to expect
that no one will dare to cross them. What follows is a polemical memorandum that seeks to capture the open and wide-ranging discussions arising from workshops oriented around this core thematic. Our aim is to outline what we consider to be some of the most pressing questions and problems facing those engaged in the multi-disciplinary study of borders in contemporary political life.