Title: Marksisticke teorije medunarodnih odnosa i reflektivistickoalternativni pristupi izucavanju medunaro
1Marksisticke teorije medunarodnih odnosa i
reflektivisticko-alternativni pristupi izucavanju
medunarodnih odnosa
2Marxist theories of International Relations
- Dok god je svet u biti svet nejednakih, i dok god
su socijalne razlike izmedu ljudi ogromne,
marksisticke teorije imace veliku ulogu u
razumevanju sveta u kojem ivimo.Kada se
pogledaju indikatori uslova u kojima ljudi ive
sve je jasno na prvi pogled. - Ostrvca bogatih i okeani siromanih (Injasio
Ramone)
3- Jedna petina svetskog stanovnita ivi u
ekstremnom siromatvu - Prosecni prihodi u bogatih 20 zemalja su 37 puta
veci nego u dvadeset najsiromanijih i taj odnos
se skoro duplirao u poslednjih dvadeset godina - Subvencije za poljoprivredne proizvode u
razvijenim zemljama su 6 puta veci od pomoci za
razvoj koja se ukazuje zemljama u razvoju i
nerazvijenim zemljama - Carine (ne racunajuci tzv. necarinske barijere)
za robu iz nerazvijenih zemalja su 4 puta vece
nego na robu iz zemalja OECD-a - Vie od 30 000 dece umre svakog dana od zaraza
koje se veoma lako mogu spreciti - Jedna milijarda ljudi nema pristup zdravoj vodi
za pice - Ukupno bogatstvo 358 svetskih milijardera
prevazilazi zarade 45 procenata svetskog
stanovnitva - U Africi samo jedna trecina dece uspe da zavri
osnovnu kolu - Africke zemlje placaju svakog dana 40 miliona
dolara samo na ime kamata i otplatu dugova
4Introduction the continuing relevance of Marxism
- Marxs work retains its relevance despite the
collapse of Communist party rule in the former
Soviet Union. - Of particular importance is Marxs analysis of
capitalism, which has yet to be bettered. - Marxist analyses of international relations aim
to reveal the hidden workings of global
capitalism. These hidden workings provide the
context in which international events occur.
5The essential elements of Marxist theories of
world politics
- Marx himself provided little in terms of a
theoretical analysis of International Relations. - His ideas have been interpreted and appropriated
in a number of different and contradictory ways
resulting in a number of competing schools of
Marxism. - Underlying these different schools are several
common elements that can be traced back to Marx's
writings.
6- Kapitalizam
- Sredstva za proizvodnju
- Proizvodni odnosi
7- First, all the marxist theorists share with Marx
the view that the social world should be analysed
as a totality. - For them the academic division of the social
world into different areas of enquiry history,
philosophy, economics, political science,
sociology, international relations etc. is both
arbitrary and unhelpful. - Rather, none can be understood without knowledge
of the others the social world had to be studied
as a whole
8- Another key element of Marxist thought, which
serves further to underline this concern with
interconnection and context, is the materialist
conception of history. - The central contention here is that process of
historical change are ultimately a reflection of
the economic development of society - Means of production relations of production
economic base of society
9- Class plays a key role in Marxist analysis. In
contrast to liberals who believe that there is an
essential harmony of interest between various
social groups, Marxist hold that society is
systematically prone to class conflict.
10Marxism, one or many?
11World-system theory
- World-system theory can be seen as a direct
development of Lenins work on imperialism and
the Latin American dependency school. - Immanuel Wallerstein and his work on the modern
world-system is a key contribution to this
school. - Wallersteins work has been developed by a number
of other writers who have built on his initial
foundational work.
12- Za Valertajna kljucna forma organizovanja
drutva kroz istoriju su svetski sistemi . - Postoje dva tipa svetskog sistema kroz istoriju
1) svetske imperije 2) svetske ekonomije.
13- Glavna razlika izmedu njih se zasniva na tome
kako se donose odluke o raspodeli resursa
(bogatstava). - U svetskim imperijama, centralizovani politicki
sistem koristi svoju moc da preraspodeli resurse
od perifernih obalsti ka oblasti sredinjeg
jezgra. - U svetskim ekonomijama nema takvog centralnog
politickog sistema vec pre postoji vie
meduasobno kompetitivnih centara moci. Resursi se
ne distribuiraju politickimm odlukama nego preko
trita koje postaje posrednik.
14- IAKO JE MEHANIZAM ZA RASPODELU RESURSA RAZLICIT,
EFEKAT JE ISTI RESURSI IDU OD PERIFERIJE KA
CENTRU
15- MODERNI SVETSKI SISTEM JE PRIMER SVETSKE
EKONOMIJE - Taj sistem se pojavio u Evropi pocetkom 16.veka,
onda se proirio na ceo svet. - vodeca snaga ovog sistema je kapitalizam
- sve se drutvene institucije vremenom menjaju i
prilagodavaju promenjenim okolnostima - Vremenom, doci ce do kraja ovog sistema
16- tri ekonomske zone sveta jezgro (centar),
poluperiferija, periferija - poluperiferije imaju neke od karakteristika i
jedne i druge oblasti - eksploatatorski odnos koji danas postoji u svetu
i koji izvlaci bogatstva iz periferije i prenosi
ga u centar - Ovo su bili elementi prostorne dimenzije sistema
17- Postoje i vremenska dimenzija sistema. Njeni
elementi su ciklicni ritmovi (boom and bust u
svetskoj ekonomiji) sekularni trendovi
(dugorocni rast ili smanjenje svetske ekonomije)
protivrecnosti (smanjiti plate, a maksimizirati
profite vlasnika) krize (kad se ova tri elementa
pojave na taj nacin da sistem vie ne moe
funkcionisati)
18- Valertajnove prognoze o padu americke moci
19Gramscianism
- Drawing upon the work of Antonio Gramsci for
inspiration, writers within an Italian school
of international relations have made a
considerable contribution to thinking about world
politics.
20Gramscianism
- Gramsci shifted the focus of Marxist analysis
more towards superstructural phenomena. In
particular he explored the processes by which
consent for a particular social and political
system was produced and reproduced through the
operation of hegemony. Hegemony allows the ideas
and ideologies of the ruling stratum to become
widely dispersed, and widely accepted, throughout
society.
21- The key question which animated Gramscis
theoretical work was why had it proven to be so
difficult to promote revolution in Western
Europe. - The history of the early twentieth century seemed
to suggest, therefore, that there was a flaw in
classic Marxist analysis. - But where had they gone wrong?
22- Gramscis answer to this question revolves around
his use of the concept of hegemony. - Gramscis use of hegemony is also related to his
understanding of power, but it reflects a
conceptualization of power that is broader and
richer than that usually encountered in the work
of contemporary realist. - Gramsci adopts Machiavellis view of power as a
centaur, half beast, half man a mixture of
coercion and consent. - However, the capitalist system was maintained not
merely by coercion, but also through consent. - Consent, on Gramscis reading is created and
recreated by the hegemony of the ruling stratum
in society. It is this hegemony that allows the
moral, political, and cultural values of the
dominant group to become widely dispersed
throughout society and to be accepted bt
subordinate groups as their own.
23- Indeed, according to Gramscis analysis, dominant
ideologies become sedimented in society to the
extent that they take on the status of
unquestioned common sense. - All this takes place through the institutions of
civil society. - Civil society is the network of institutions and
practices in society that enjoy some autonomy
from the state, and through which groups and
individuals organize, represent, and express
themselves to each other and to the state. These
include, for example, the media, the education
system,. Churches, voluntary organizations, etc. - Historic bloc mutually reinforcing and
reciprocal relationship between the
socio-economic relations (base) and political and
cultural practices (super-structure) that
together underpin a given order. - It is the interaction that matters
- A counter-hegemonic struggle in civil society
24- Thinkers such as Robert W. Cox have attempted to
internationalize Gramscis thought by
transposing several of his key concepts, most
notably hegemony, to the global context.
25- Robert Cox- svetski poredak
- cuvena recenica iz jednog njegovog clanka iz
1982. godine Teorija je uvek za nekoga i u
necije svrhe. Ne postoji teorija koja se moe
razdvojiti od tacke gledita u vremenu i
prostoru - Dakle, znanje, teorije i bezbednost uvek slue
nekome i necijim ciljevima.
26- Prema Koksu velike sile koje su se smenjivale, da
tako kaemo na celu sveta, oblikovale su svetski
poredak tako da slui njihovim interesima. Tu se
ne radi samo o sredstvima prinude putem kojih su
to uradili vec i o pokuaju da se stvori podrka
medu onima kojima takav jedan poredak ne donosi
prednosti. - Recimo, za dva skoranja takva hegemona
(Britanija i SAD) takva vodeca ideja bila je
slobodna trgovina. - Prica se da to donosi dobro svima a ipak neki
dobijaju mnogo vie u celoj toj situaciji.
27Critical theory
- Critical theory has its roots in the work of the
Frankfurt School, a group of thinkers including
Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse,
and Jürgen Habermas. - Among the key concerns of critical theorists is
emancipation, and, in particular, the human
capacities and capabilities appealed to in calls
for emancipatory action.
28- Sam naziv kriticke teorije treba razumeti u
kontekstu onoga to je Robert Koks oznacio kao
teorije koje reavaju probleme (problemsolving
theories) i kriticke teorije. - Problemsolving theories uzimaju postojece
politicke i drutvene odnose i institucije kao
takve i zadatak teorija jeste da probleme koji
izrastaju iz takvih odnosa ree i poboljaju.
29- Kriticke teorije, nasuprot tome pokuavaju da
razumeju kako su se takvi odnosi i institucije
uopte pojavili i ta i kako treba da bude
uradeno da bi se oni promenili.
30LJUDSKA EMANCIPACIJA-DEFINICIJA
- "OSLOBOÐENJE LJUDI, KAKO POJEDINACA TAKO I GRUPA,
OD SOCIJALNIH, FIZICKIH, EKONOMSKIH POLITICKIH I
DRUGIH PREPREKA KOJE IH SPRECAVAJU DA SPROVEDU
(OSTVARE) ONO TO SU ONI SLOBODNOM VOLJOM
IZABRALI DA URADE.
31Critical theory
- Several different understandings of emancipation
have emerged from the critical theory tradition.
The first generation of the Frankfurt School
equated emancipation with a reconciliation with
nature. Habermas has argued that emancipatory
potential lies in the realm of communication and
that radical democracy is the way in which that
potential can be unlocked.
32Critical theory
- Andrew Linklater has developed critical theory
themes to argue in favour of the expansion of the
moral boundaries of the political community, and
has pointed to the European Union as an example
of a post-Westphalian institution of governance.
33New Marxism
- New Marxism is characterized by a direct
(re)appropriation of the concepts and categories
developed by Marx. - Bill Warren deploys Marxs analysis of capitalism
and colonialism to criticize some of the central
ideas of dependency and world-system theorists. - Justin Rosenberg, who was used key elements of
Marxs writings to critique both realist approach
to International Relations and globalization
theory
34Bill Warren imperialism and the rise of third
world capitalism
- For Lenin, imperialism represented the phase
where capitalism definitively ceased to play any
progressive function imperialism was both the
highest stage of capitalism and its final stage.
This view become the standard Marxist and
neo-Marxist position through much of the
twentieth century. - The British Marxist, Bill warren rejected this
view. - In his book Imperialism Pioneer of Capitalism
(1980) he argued that Lenin had been both
empirically and theoretically mistaken. - He repeated Marxs argument that capitalism is a
necessary stage in human development - Capitalism according to Warren, was fulfilling
his historic role in the periphery by rapidly
developing the means of production, and,
crucially for a future transition to socialism,
facilitating the mergence of an urban working
class. Imperialism should therefore be seen as
the pioneer of capitalism rather than its
highest stage
35- Development of capitalism in a range of Third
World countries had brought marked improvement in
material sense. This improvement took three main
forms better health care, better education, and
greater access to consumer goods. Each of these
was crucial in laying the foundations for the
long-term development of productive forces. - Furthermore, Warren argues that in the
post-colonial era there has been an enormous
increase in the wealth and productive capacity of
Third World Countries. - This process has, of course, been uneven, and
there have been winners and losers, but such
irregularities are inherent in capitalist
development. - Overall, Warren suggests that the picture of
North-South relations depicted by the dependency
theorists and world-systems theorists is an
incomplete one.
36- Warrens argument is clearly a contentious one.
- Nonetheless, in one important sense he could be
viewed as being essentially correct. Imperialism
was not the highest stage of capitalism as
Lenin had claimed, it was rather the pioneer by
which the capitalist mode of production expanded
from its European heartland throughout the globe.
37Justin Rosenberg capitalism and global social
relations
- Warren focuses primarily on the economic
possibilities that the expansion of capitalism
provides for Third World Countries. By contrast,
the focus of Rosenbergs analysis is the
character of the international system and its
relationship to the changing character of social
relations. - His critique of Realist International Relations
Theory, especially to realisms claim to provide
an ahistorical, essentially timeless account of
international relations. - He analyses the differences in the character of
international relations between the Greek and
Italian city-states. A touchstone of Realist
theory is the similarity between these two
historical cases. - Rosenberg however, describes the alleged
resemblances between these two eras as a
gigantic optical illusion. - Instead his analysis suggests that the character
of the international system in each of these
periods was completely different.
38As an alternative, Rosenberg argues for the
development of a theory of international
relations that is sensitive to the changing
character of world politics. This theory must
also recognize that international relations are
part of a broader pattern of social relations.
The character of the relations of production
permeate the whole of society right up to, and
including, relations between the states.
39- The form of the state will be different under
different modes of production, and as a result
the characteristics of inter-state relations will
also vary. - Hence if we want to understand the way that the
international system operate in any particular
era, our starting point has to be an examination
of the mode of production, and in particular the
relations of production.
40New Marxism
- Rosenberg uses Marxs ideas to criticize realist
theories of international relations, and
globalization theory. He seeks to develop an
alternative approach which understands historical
change in world politics as a reflection of
transformations in the prevailing relations of
production. - Two of the core concepts in Realist theory,
sovereignty and anarchy can fruitfully be
reevaluated in the lights of Marxist method.
Both of them reflect particular features of the
capitalist era. - Book The Empire of Civil Society A Critique of
the Realist Theory of International Relations,
1994
41Marxist theories of International Relations and
globalization
- Marxists are rather sceptical about the emphasis
currently being placed on the notion of
globalization. - Rather than being a recent phenomenon they see
the recent manifestations of globalization as
being part of long-term trends in the development
of capitalism. - Furthermore the notion of globalization is
increasingly being used as an ideological tool to
justify reductions in workers rights and welfare
provision.
42Alternativno - kriticki pristupi izucavanju
medunarodnih odnosa
43Introduction
- Realism, liberalism, and Marxism together
comprised the inter-paradigm debate of the 1980s,
with realism dominant amongst the three theories.
- Despite promising intellectual openness, however,
the inter-paradigm debate ended up naturalizing
the dominance of realism by pretending that there
was real contestation.
44Introduction
- In recent years, the dominance of realism has
been undermined by three developments first,
neo-liberal institutionalism has become
increasingly important second, globalization has
brought a host of other features of world
politics to centre-stage third, positivism, the
underlying methodological assumption of realism,
has been significantly undermined by developments
in the social sciences and in philosophy.
45Explanatory/constitutive theories and
foundational/anti-foundational theories
- Theories can be distinguished according to
whether they are explanatory or constitutive and
whether they are foundational or
anti-foundational. As a rough guide, explanatory
theories tend to be foundational and constitutive
theories tend to be anti-foundational.
46Explanatory/constitutive theories and
foundational/anti-foundational theories
- The three main theories comprising the
inter-paradigm debate were based on a set of
positivist assumptions, namely that a denial of
the idea that social science theories can use the
same methodologies as theories of the natural
sciences, that facts and values can be
distinguished, that neutral facts can act as
arbiters between rival truth claims, and that the
social world has regularities which theories can
discover.
47Explanatory/constitutive theories and
foundational/anti-foundational theories
- Since the late 1980s there has been a rejection
of positivism, with the main new approaches
tending more towards constitutive and
anti-foundational assumptions. - The current theoretical situation is one in which
there are three main positions first,
rationalist theories that are essentially the
latest versions of the realist and liberal
theories second, alternative theories that are
post-positivist and thirdly social
constructivist theories that try to bridge the
gap.
48Explanatory/constitutive theories and
foundational/anti-foundational theories
- Alternative approaches at once differ
considerably from one another, and at the same
time overlap in some important ways. One thing
that they do share is a rejection of the core
assumptions of rationalist theories.
49- Historical sociology
- Normative theory
- Feminist theory
- Post-modernism
- Post- colonialism
50Historical sociology
- Historical sociology has a long history, having
been a subject of study for several centuries.
Its central focus is with how societies develop
the forms that they do. - Contemporary historical sociology is concerned
above all with how the state has developed since
the Middle Ages. It is basically a study of the
interactions between states, classes, capitalism,
and war.
51Historical sociology
- In his 1990 book, Coercion, Capital and European
States, AD 900-1990, Tilly poses the following
question What accounts for the great variation
over time and space in the kinds of states that
have prevailed in Europe since AD 900, and why
did European States eventually converge on
different form of national state? - Namely, he looks at how the three main kinds of
state forms that existed at the end of the Middle
Ages eventually converged on one form, namely the
national state. He argues that the decisive
reason was the ability of the national state to
fight wars. - Distinguished between capital-intensive and
coercion-intensive regimes (or economic
power-based and military power based system),
Tilly notes that three types of states resulted
from the combinations of these forms of power,
tribute making empires, systems of fragmented
sovereignty (city-states), and national states. - These states were the result of the different
class structure that resulted from the
concentrations of capital and coercion.
52- With the rise of the scale of war, the result was
that national states started to acquire a
decisive advantage over the other kinds of state
organizations. - This was because national states could afford
large armies and could respond to the demands of
the classes representing both agricultural and
commercial interests. - States, in other words become transformed by war
53- Tilly notes that the three types of states noted
above, all converged on one version of the state,
so now that is seen as the norm. - Yet, in contrast to neo-realism , he notes that
the state has not been of one form throughout its
history. - The national state acquires more and more power
over its population by its involvement in war,
and therefore could dominate other state forms
because they were more efficient than either
tribute-gathering empires or city-states in this
process.
54- Michael Mann has developed a powerful model of
the sources of state power, known as the IEMP
Model. (Ideological, Economic, Military, and
Political Forms of Power) - Book The Sources of Social Power, 4 Volume,
1986-2003 - This is an enormously ambitious project, aimed at
showing just how states have taken the forms that
they have. - In other words, Mann studies the ways in which
the various forms of power have combined in
specific historical circumstances
55- His work is similar to Tilly, but the major
innovation of Manns work is that he has
developed a sophisticated account of forms of
power that combine to form certain types of
states. - Mann differentiates between three aspects of
power 1. Between distributive and collective
power 2. Extensive and Intensive power 3. Power
may be authoritative and diffused - Mann argued that that the most effective exercise
of power combines all three elements.
56- Her argues that there are four sources of social
power, which together may determine the overall
structure of societies. The four are 1.
Ideological power derives from the human need to
find ultimate meaning in life, to share norms and
values and to participate in aesthetic and ritual
practices 2. Economic power derives from the need
to extract, transform, distribute and consume the
resources of nature 3. Military power is the
social organization of physical force. It derives
from the necessity of organized defense and the
utility of aggression. 4. Political power derives
from the usefulness of territorial and
centralized regulation. Political power means
state power. -
57- The struggle to control ideological, economic,
military, and political power organizations
provides the central drama of social development.
Societies are structured primarily by entwined
ideological, economic, military, and political
power.
58- Like realism, historical sociology is interested
in war. But it undercuts neo-realism because it
shows that the state is not one functionally
similar organization, but instead has altered
over time. - The concerns of historical sociology are
compatible with a number of the other approaches
surveyed in this chapter including feminism and
postmodernism.
59Normative theory
- Normative theory was out of fashion for decades
because of the dominance of positivism, which
portrayed it as value-laden and unscientific. - In the last fifteen years or so there has been a
resurgence of interest in normative theory. It is
now more widely accepted that all theories have
normative assumptions either explicitly or
implicitly. - By normative international relations theory is
meant that body of work which addresses the moral
dimension of international relations and the
wider questions of meaning and interpretation
generated by the discipline. (Chris Brown)
60Normative theory
- The key distinction in normative theory is
between cosmopolitanism and communitarianism. The
former sees the bearers of rights and obligations
as individuals the latter sees them as being the
community (usually the state). - Main areas of debate in contemporary normative
theory include the autonomy of the state, the
ethics of the use of force, and international
justice.
61Normative theory
- The moral value assigned to state autonomy
- The ethics of interstate violence known as Just
War Theory - The issues of international Justice
62The moral value assigned to state autonomy
- medunarodna politika pociva na drutvu drava sa
odredenim pravilima, premda ta pravila nisu uvek
sasvim potovana. - Najvanije pravilo je dravni suverenitet, koji
zabranjuje dravama intervenisanje izvan
vlastitih dravnih granica u prostor tude
jurisdikcije. - Politikolog Majkl Volcer, na primer, smatra da
nacionalne granice imaju moralni znacaj, zato to
drave predstavljaju ukupna prava pojedinaca koji
su se udruili radi zajednickog ivota. - Drugi jednostavnije kau da je potovanje
suvereniteta najbolji nacin ocuvanja poretka.
Dobre ograde stvaraju dobre susede, po recima
pesnika Roberta Frosta. - U prakticnom ivotu, ova pravila ponaanja drava
se cesto kre. - U nekoliko poslednjih decenija, Vijetnam je napao
Kambodu, Kina napala Vijetnam, Tanzanija
izvrila napad na Ugandu, Izrael napao Liban,
Sovjetski Savez je izvrio invaziju Avganistana,
Sjedinjene Americke Drave su intervenisale u
Grenadi i u Panami, Irak je napao Iran i Kuvajt,
Sjedinjene Drave i Velika Britanija su napale na
Irak, a NATO je bombardovao Srbiju zbog nacina na
koji se odnosila prema pokrajini Kosovo i
Metohija- da navedemo samo neke primere
63The ethics of interstate violence known as Just
War Theory
- U knjizi Just and Unjust Wars (Pravedni i
nepravedni ratovi), Majkl Volcer, politikolog
koji nastupa sa pozicije dravnih moralista,
iznosi cetiri slucaja u kojima bi se mogli
moralno opravdati rat ili vojna intervencija, a
da to ne bude otvorena agresija. Prvi izuzetak od
strogog pravila je preduhitrujuca (preemptivna)
intervencija, za koju se kao primer uzima
izraelski napad 1967. godine. Drugo odstupanje od
strogog pravila javlja se kada je intervencija
neohodna kako bi se uravnoteila prethodna
intervencija. Ovo pravilo potice iz vremena Dona
Stjuarta Mila i liberalnog miljenja
devetneastog veka, i govori o tome kako ljudi
imaju pravo da odlucuju o sopstvenoj sudbini.
Trece odstupanje od pravila protiv intervencije
je kada je neophodno spasavanje ljudi kojima
preti masakr. Cetvrto odstupanje od
neintervenisanja je pravo na pomoc
secesionistickim pokretima onda kada su
reprezentativni.
64The issues of international Justice
- Specific regard to the obligations that the
richer states of the world have to poorer
countries - The question whether international institutions
have moral responsibilities. - temeljna vrednost je pravda, a kljucna
medunarodna institucija je drutvo pojedinaca.
Prema tome, intervencija moe da bude opravdana
ako unapreduje pravdu za pojedince i ljudska
prava. Dozvoljeno je intervenisati na strani
dobra.
65Normative theory
- In the last two decades, normative issues have
become more relevant to debates about foreign
policy, for example in discussions of how to
respond to calls for humanitarian intervention
and whether war should be framed in terms of a
battle between good and evil.
66Feminist theory
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??????????? - Five main types of feminist theory 1) liberal 2)
socialist/Marxist 3) standpoint 4) post-modern 5)
post-colonial
67Liberal feminism
- Liberal feminism looks at the roles women play in
world politics and asks why they are
marginalized. It wants the same opportunities
afforded to women as are afforded to men. - All rights should be granted to woman equallly
with man. This is why liberal - Cynthia Enloe
68Marxist/socialist (materialist) feminists
- Marxist/socialist (materialist) feminists focus
on the international capitalist system. Marxist
feminists see the oppression of women as a
by-product of capitalism, whereas socialist
feminists see both capitalism and patriarchy as
the structures to be overcome if women are to
have any hope of equality. - Rosemary Hennessy, Chrys Ingraham, book
Materialist feminism A Reader in Class,
Difference and Womens Lives, 1997
69Standpoint feminists
- Standpoint feminists, such as J. Ann Tickner want
to correct the male dominance of our knowledge of
the world. Tickner does this be re-describing the
six objective principles of international
politics developed by Hans Morgenthau according
to a female version of the world. - Standpoint feminists argue that seeing the world
from the standpoint of women radically alters our
understanding of that world.
70Post-modernist feminist
- Post-modernist feminists are concerned with
gender as opposed to the position of women as
such. They look into the ways in which
masculinity and femininity get constructed, and
are especially interested in how world politics
constructs certain types of men and women. - It is an increasingly difficult position to
defend that sex is prior to gender. (the term
gender usually refers to social construction of
differences between men and women) The more one
searches for the brute reality of sex, the more
one finds that is gendered that is, that the
understanding of a sex as a fact is itself a
cultural conceit - Helen M. Kinsella
71Postcolonial feminists
- Postcolonial feminists, such as Gayatri Spivak,
work at the intersection of gender, race and
class on a global scale. They suggest that
liberal feminists and others have ignored the
interests and opinions of women in the global
South often preferring to speak on their behalf.
This is a form of cultural imperialism with
important material effects.
72Post-modernism
- Lyotard defines post-modernism as incredulity
towards metanarratives, meaning that it denies
the possibility of foundations for establishing
the truth of statements existing outside of
discourse. - Foucault focuses on the power-knowledge
relationship and sees the two as mutually
constituted. It implies that there can be no
truth outside of regimes of truth. How can
history have a truth if truth has a history?
73Post-modernism
- Foucault proposes a genealogical approach to look
at history, and this approach uncovers how
certain regimes of truth have dominated others. - Derrida argues that the world is like a text in
that it cannot simply be grasped, but has to be
interpreted. He looks at how texts are
constructed, and proposes two main tools to
enable us to see how arbitrary are the seemingly
natural oppositions of language. These are
deconstruction and double reading.
74Post-modernism
- Post-modern approaches have been accused of being
too theoretical and not concerned with the
real world. They reply, however, that in the
social world there is no such thing as the real
world in the sense of a reality that is not
interpreted by us and have done a great deal of
work on important empirical questions such as war
and famine.
75Postcolonialism
- Given the state-centrism and positivism of IR,
postcolonial approaches have been largely ignored
until recently as old disciplinary boundaries are
breaking down. - Postcolonialism essentially focuses on the
persistence of colonial forms of power in
contemporary world politics, especially how the
social construction of racial, gendered, and
class differences uphold relations of power and
subordination.
76Postcolonialism
- Most postcolonial research rejects positivism
given its claims to produce knowledge devoid of
race, gender, and class power hierarchies. - Racism, in particular, continues to operate in
both obvious and sometimes subtle ways in
contemporary world politics but this is not
captured in traditional approaches to
international theory. - Postcolonial research seeks to offer positive
resources for resistance to imperial and other
forms of power and not just critique. - Edward Said
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