Class 10 IR Critical Theories (2024/2025)

2024/2025 CLASS 10 – Critical theories Lecturer : Dr. Valentina Brogna (replacing Prof. Amandine Orsini) 2018 6. Mathilda Broad biocentrism Restricted biocentrism Restrict Broad ed biocentr biocent...

2024/2025 CLASS 10 – Critical theories Lecturer : Dr. Valentina Brogna (replacing Prof. Amandine Orsini) 2018 6. Mathilda Broad biocentrism Restricted biocentrism Restrict Broad ed biocentr biocent ism rism Primary goals of green democrats: - supplementary rights, including new constitutional environmental rights, - proxy representation for future generations and non-human species, - new legal principles (ex: precautionary principle), - new treaties that promote transboundary environmental procedural rights, such as the Aarhus Convention 1998 Green theory challenges existing economic structures It proposes a “green theory of value” It rejects the split between domestic and international => borders are arbitrary =/ Global environmental problems require global solutions A green solution to climate change could involve global governance institutions and communities working together – largely bypassing the state ÞThe State, as unit of analysis and political unit of problem-solving, is questioned by green theory  II. Broadening the concept of “security” Copenhagen school (scholars from the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute - B. Buzan, O. Waever, J. de Wilde, P. Lemaitre, M. Kelstrup) Different types of rationality Different definitions of “good life” Multiple knowledges => multiple worldviews => multiple understandings of “security” 1) How does a society - or any group of people - come to designate, or not designate, something as a threat? - Military - Environmental, societal, economic, political 2) Who speaks about security? Who doesn’t? How does something become a threat and put on the agenda? The state has two faces: it is a major source of both threats and security for individuals Reciprocal relationship between the state and individuals: individuals can threaten the state and vice versa ‘The personal is international; the international is personal. - Cynthia Enloe -  Currents and internal debates within feminist theory in international relations Liberal feminism: integrating women into the system Radical feminism: challenging patriarchal structures Postcolonial feminism: a focus on North/South and postcolonial dynamics COX R. ,1981, “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory” (extract pp. 128-130) HOMEWORK SESSION 11 - S T U DY S E S S I O N 1 0 ( S L I D E S , S U M M A RY O N M O O D L E , YO U R N OT E S ) - READING: R AY M O N D G. 2024. “HEDGING, A L I G N M E N T, AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. THE GEOPOLITICAL MEANING AND OUTCOMES OF THAILAND’S PROCUREMENT OF CHINESE S U B M A R I N E S ” ( E X T R A C T : P P. 7 7 - 8 1 )