Patrick Thaddeus Jackson's research while affiliated with American Military University and other places
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Publications (53)
One of my pet peeves when watching televised sports is when the commentators declare that one or another player or team “has momentum” or that “the momentum has shifted.” Typically, this statement is made shortly after a team or player does something that puts them in a better position to win the game, and the implication seems to be that this chan...
William Bain’s book does a brilliant job excavating some key conceptual underpinnings of our contemporary discussions about order, but he has perhaps underplayed the importance of nominalism in structuring our present.
This chapter highlights positivism and post-positivism in the social sciences. ‘Post-positivism’, much like ‘positivism’, is a notoriously imprecise term that nonetheless does significantly effective work in shaping academic controversies. Post-positivist approaches are loosely organized around a common rejection of the notion that the social scien...
World Ordering: A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution. By Emanuel Adler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 394p. $99.99 cloth, $34.99 paper. - Volume 18 Issue 1 - Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
C. A. W. Manning was an important figure in the early days of what became known as the English School, and was one of the most philosophically explicit articulators of the interpretivist approach that informed that branch of scholarship. He was also a defender of the apartheid system of his native South Africa. A close examination of his work revea...
I hate abstracts. Concisely summarizing the content of a chapter or article suggests that the piece could have been shorter and more efficient, and if that were true, why write it in the first place, and certainly, why read it? Just read the abstract, which will give you the highlights. But since the whole point of my chapter is that it is easy for...
What is ‘relational theorizing’ in International Relations and what can it offer? This article introduces a thematic section that responds to these questions by showing two things. First, relational theorizing is not a doctrine or a method, but a set of analyses that begin with relations rather than the putative essences of constitutively autonomou...
Even in the North American and European context, relationalism comes in many flavours. We identify the common features of relational approaches, including varieties of practice theory, pragmatism and network analysis. We also identify key disagreements within relationalism, such as the relative explanatory importance of positional and process-orien...
This intervention, while highlighting points of agreement with Rosenberg’s arguments, also challenges Rosenberg’s characterization of the discipline. Specifically, this short intervention takes issue with the image of the field as International Relations as a discipline and multiplicity as its proposed core notion.
The notion of 'the West' is commonly used in politics, the media, and in the academic world. To date, our idea of 'the West' has been largely assumed and effective, but has not been examined in detail from a theoretical perspective. Uses of 'the West' combines a range of original and topical approaches to evaluate what 'the West' really does, and h...
Existing neopositivist approaches to causal explanation focus their time and effort on the evaluation of nomothetic causal claims, and spend very little energy on the question of how, precisely, a nomothetic generalization explains a particular observed outcome. Against this approach I develop a more pragmatic analysis of the act of explanation in...
Must international studies be a science?
No.
By which I mean: the investigation of the cross-boundary-encounter aspect(s) of things need not be organised so as to categorically privilege epistemic ways of knowing (even though there is a multiplicity of such ways, merely epistemic diversity is insufficient). Other flavours of knowing are equally val...
Although scholars toss around the word “relativism” when debating the merits of various methodological approaches in international studies, there is a lack of clarity about what it might mean to have a relativist position on the production of social-scientific knowledge. As a result, a lot of the ink spilled about the potential dangers of relativis...
Concerns about the end of International Relations theory pivot around at least three different issues: the fading of the ‘paradigm wars’ associated with the 1990s and early 2000s; the general lack of any sort of ‘great debate’ sufficient to occupy the attention of large portions of the field; and claims about the vibrancy of middle-range theorizing...
In this reply, I take up three issues raised by the other contributors to this discussion of my book: the purpose of the intervention, the epistemic status of the typology and the question of progress in science.
Non-Western International Relations Theory: Perspectives on and beyond Asia. Edited by AcharyaAmitav and BuzanBarry. New York: Routledge, 2009. 248p. $47.95. International Relations Scholarship Around the World. Edited by TicknerArlene B. and WæverOle. New York: Routledge, 2009. 354p. $42.95. - Volume 9 Issue 3 - Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945–1995. By JarauschKonrad H.. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 379p. $40.00. From War to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding. Edited by JarstadAnna K. and SiskTimothy D.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 290p. $80.00 cloth, $29.99 paper. - Volume 8 Issue 1 - Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
American scholars routinely characterize the study of international relations as divided between various Kuhnian “paradigms” or Lakatosian “research programmes.” Although most international relations scholars have abandoned Kuhn’s account of scientific continuity and change, many utilize Lakatosian criteria to assess the “progressive” or “degenerat...
The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis sets out to synthesize and critique for the first time those approaches to political science that offer a more fine-grained qualitative analysis of the political world. The work in this Handbook has a common aim in being sensitive to the thoughts of contextual nuances that disappear from large-sc...
Iver Neumann's paper on speech-writing practices in the Norwegian foreign ministry, besides presenting a fascinating glimpse of a side of official political action that we scholars don't often see, implicitly raises a broader methodological question: can ethnographic techniques tell us distinctive things about world politics? What is the benefit of...
After all of the ink that has been spilled comparing international relations (IR) to either physics or economics, it is somewhat refreshing to see Douglas Van Belle (2006) turning to a novel source: paleontology, and specifically the study of the dinosaurs and their extinction. 1 Van Belle argues that there is much to be learned from how paleontolo...
While the recent proliferation in philosophical discussions in International Relations indicates a welcome increase in the discipline’s conceptual sophistication, a central issue has gone relatively unremarked: the question of how to understand the relationship between scholarly observers and their observed objects. This classical philosophical pro...
Civilizing the Enemy: German Reconstruction and the Invention of the West. By Patrick Thaddeus Jackson. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2006. 286p. $27.95.
Rarely have I enjoyed (and learned from) reading a book as much as this one, whose parts are quite brilliant on occasion but whose overall argument falls well short of its claim and...
It has always been true that foreign policy debates tend to proceed on a weak evidentiary base, with clever quips or stirring oratory regularly trumping sound analysis. According to Thucydides, for example, the Athenian assembly that endorsed the Sicilian expedition during the second Peloponnesian War had only the haziest conception of the adversar...
While scholars of International Relations and comparative politics have usually treated rhetoric as epiphenomenal, one strand of constructivism has recently returned rhetoric to the heart of political analysis, especially through the mechanism of persuasion. We too maintain that rhetoric is central to political processes and outcomes, but we argue...
In his article “Realist Constructivism,”Barkin (2003:338) described constructivism as a cluster of research methods and analytical tools: a “set of assumptions about how to study world politics” rather than a “set of assumptions about how politics work.” As such, constructivism is subject to E.H. Carr's dialectic between realism and utopianism. Bar...
Are states people too? Yes , they are. In this I agree with Alexander Wendt's contention that the state is an ‘emergent phenomenon which cannot be reduced to individuals’, although I disagree with the methodology (scientific realist abduction) that he uses to make his argument and the consequent implication that the state is a ‘real’ (as opposed, p...
In 1959, Arnold Wolfers published an essay entitled ‘The Actors In World Politics’ in which he suggested that the importance of the state as an actor, although undeniable, needed to be submitted to ‘empirical analysis’ and clearer theorisation if its precise role was to be ascertained. Unfortunately, almost no one seems to have heeded his advice, a...
EITHER the traditional realist explanation nor liberal and constructivist alternatives are adequate to explain NATO’s formation. Existing explanations of the formation of NATO in International Relations (IR) theory all begin from the position that explaining NATO is a matter of explaining the specific decisions made by individual state actors. It i...
The Star Trek franchise, which now includes ten films and five television series, has long provided scholars and fans with rich material for the analysis of politics in general, and United States foreign policy in particular. Many argue that specific episodes and/or elements of the Star Trek mythology—such as alien races and its historical timeline...
In Whence “American Internationalism” Jeffrey W. Legro makes three important
contributions to the study of international relations in general and to the development
of constructivist theory in particular. First, Legro convincingly shows that the
shift in American foreign policy from unilateralism to internationalism after World
War II cannot be und...
In recent years, paradigmatic debates in International Relations (IR) have focused on questions of epistemology and methodology. While important in their own right, these differences have obscured the basic divide in the discipline between substantialism, which takes entities as primitives, and relationalism, which takes processes of social transac...
The concept of 'civilisation' has recently re-entered the theoretical horizons of IR. Authors have deployed the concept in various ways in their efforts to explain the dynamics of world politics. Yet a basic divide in this research between 'substantialist' and 'processual' or 'relational' approaches to phenomena has gone largely unnoticed. Identify...
Pragmatism would appear to be enjoying something of a surge of popularity in IR theory of late. The recent special issue of Millennium (2002) serves as an important document of this renaissance; a number of panels at recent ISA conferences, along with a series of papers (both published and unpublished) mainly written by European scholars, 2 provide...
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There has been a lot of ink spilled in recent years over the issue of “qualitative methods” in Political Science in general, and in International Relations and Comparative Politics in particular. Unfortunately, much of the work seeking to define some kind of autonomous qualitative way of conducting social and political research has remained almost...
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... It is important to understand the historical and political interconnections within particular spaces, in which time and 'eventing' dynamics are key elements in analysing the complexity of the spaces that transnational movements participate in (Schiavoni 2017). The cultural politics of 'eventing', or the ways that both current and recent events take on a specific meaning at particular moments, are crucial for analyses of historical processes (Jackson 2006). Eventing is a useful tool for understanding connections between spaces and the events within, which are 'plucked out of a "dynamic reality" ' (2006, 494). ...
... Structured selfadministered questionnaires were distributed to generalise the results to the entire population (Sekaran & Bougie, 2016;Fischer et al., 2014). The researcher applies the postpositivism paradigm to indicate observations with logical reasoning, especially in spectators' views about support for attending Malaysian football matches suited for social science study (Jackson & Dolan, 2021). The data were collected through an online survey in line with other studies on tourism research (Hooker & DE Zuniga, 2017;Nayak & Narayan, 2019), distributed using online media such as Facebook and Whatsapp. ...
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... While some call for more policy engagements and more 'publicism' (Michelsen, 2018), others worry about academics' capacity to ''speak truth to power'' 2 . Still, others reject the notion that academics should in any way shape their work to fit the needs of 'relevance', seeing that as a corruption of the scientific calling (Jackson, 2019). ...
... All told, we hope that this Polanyian approach also provides a means of traversing the relative methodological divide across the ES. As Hall and Bevir note (2020), ES scholarship has become more or less split between a "modernist" wing on the one hand, most notably in the work of Barry Buzan (2001Buzan ( , 2004; see also Buzan and Schouenborg 2018 ), and an "interpretivist" wing on the other (e.g., Suganami 2001 ;Reus-Smit 2002 ;Jackson 2020 ). While the former seeks to ground the ES's historicist roots into a more structural mould for the purpose of specifying the "legacies [that] drive a set of significant differentiations of state type and of geography, status and function" ( Buzan and Schouenborg 2018 , 9), the latter seeks to understand actors "from within", and thus seeing international society "as a contingent construct that exists in the minds of actors and observers, rather than some kind of structure" ( Hall and Bevir 2020 , 165). ...
... White people, including Ukrainians, were put at the front of the queues to cross the border as refugees; in fact, the white Ukrainians carried their pets which also went in front of African humans who were ordered to stand at the back of the queues (Dovi 2022 Whereas immigrants from the Global South are often met with the force of border guards, border walls, and killer drones when they try to cross over into Europe and America, the Ukrainian pets were welcomed by veterinary doctors who waited by the borders to admit them. Some of the animals from Ukraine did not even pay airfares when they were flown to countries like the USA and Africans and other people from the Global South insofar as the relational turn elides binaries between humans and nonhumans (Kurki 2022;Qin 2016;Liu, Garlick, and Qin 2022;Nordin et al. 2019;Smith 2018;Querejazu 2021); Africans have been treated as indistinct from nonhuman animals since the enslavement and colonial eras, and as is evident in Ukraine, Africans are treated worse than pets because the pets are allowed to be in front of the queues to escape from war-torn Ukraine. Africans and other people from the Global South are ordered to stand at the back of the queues or to remain in the Ukrainian environment that is being destroyed by missiles. ...
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... The concept of ontological security is thus used in IR to explain how and why actors in world politics reflexively construct their selves through narratives and routinized behaviors in relation to other actors, and how this then affects and can explain political outcomes. For this reason, OSS can also be placed within the larger "relational" turn of IR, in which relations and processes are perceived as constituting both the actors and the environment of international affairs ( Jackson and Nexon 2019 ). ...
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... 23 Burke (1969), 23. 24 Burke (1969), 25. 25 Jackson (2010). been convincingly shown how 'the idea of the West in its fullest sense arises as the idea of the end of the West, as the retrospective recognition of a horizon that we have now transcended'. ...
... Kratochwil (1986), Ruggie (1993) and Walker (1993) offer the most widely cited critiques of IR's simplistic approach to space. For more recent critiques see Gazit (2018) and Kadercan (2015) as well as O'Loughlin (2018) and Jackson (2018). 5 Classical geopolitics is an interdisciplinary pursuit that 'is mainly concerned with […] the interaction between geography and technology, as well as the political and strategic implications of that interaction' (Wu 2018: 793). ...
Reference: Space, Scale and Global Politics
... (Baggini, 2018: 53;Dreyer, 2014: 269;Omelicheva and Zubytska, 2016: 30;Martill & Schindler, 2020). Scientification of IR is important to address IR as a discipline and science (George, 1976;Bleiker, 1997;Krombach, 1992;Jackson, 2017). Having taught IR, especially about the theory and methodology in more than eight universities in Indonesia, we are convinced that scientification of IR is very much massive in Indonesia, particularly in cities in Java such as Jakarta and Yogyakarta, and other parts of East Java where these regions happen to be the core of IR influencers. ...
... Lauren Wilcox reflects on what insects represent in fiction: ''In the genre of science fiction, insects, swarms and hives represent a continual source of terror, whether against female sexuality and reproduction or Communist hordes threatening individualism (Jackson and Nexon, 2003). Wars are frequently fought against insect-like interstellar aliens (. . . ) The alien-mother of Ridley Scott's Alien is insect-like. ...
Reference: Cyborg Insects: Bug or a Feature?
