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International Political Sociology

Code Cours
2324-ESPOL-POLS-EN-2004
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Establishment
ESPOL European School of Political and Social Sciences
Language of instruction
French, English
This course occurs in the following program(s)
Licence Science Politique - Parcours Relations internationales - Crédits ECTS:
Training officer(s)
Cindy Regnier
Period
S3

Présentation

Prerequisite

N/A

Presentation

This course provides an introduction to International Political Sociology (IPS). Critial of conventional international relations as overwhelmingly essentialist of actors, logics of action and more generally of “explanations” framed as a play between abstract forces which neglect questions of human agency, IPS scholars probe alternative ways of thinking about the international. This has broadened new research avenues, such as the uncovering of new actors in the international (street level bureaucrats, the tourist, private security experts), new logics of action such as everyday practices, recognition or stigma management, and new methodological strategies so as not to start with a given framework but to observe what actors do to uncover in a more inductive manner so-called structures which shape actions without determining them. This course will explore these themes with respect to key IPS scholarship.


Modalités

Forms of instruction

This course will mainly take the form of a lecture and it will seek as much as possible to set aside time for debate and discussion.

Evaluation

Ressources

Bibliography

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca, 2012. ‘Introduction: Bourdieu and International Relations theory’. In Bourdieu in International Relations (pp. 1-23). Routledge., Balzacq, Thierry, A., 2011. ‘Theory of Securitization: Origins, core assumptions, and variants’. In Securitization Theory: How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve. (pp. 1-30). Routledge., Bigo, Didier, and R.B.J. Walker. 2007. ‘Political Sociology and the Problem of the International’. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 35(3), pp. 725–39., Bleiker, Roland. 2016. ‘Multidisciplinarity’. In Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology, (pp. 319–327). Routledge., Bueger, Christian, and Frank Gadinger. 2018. ‘Approaches in International Practice Theory I’. In International Practice Theory, (pp. 35–68). Palgrave MacMillan., Cohn, Carol. 1987. ‘Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals’. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 12(4), pp. 687–718., Dezalay, Yves, and Bryant G. Garth. 2011. ‘Hegemonic battles, professional rivalries, and the international division of labor in the market for the import of state-governing expertise. International Political Sociology, 5(3), pp. 276-293. , Guzzini, Stefano. 2016. ‘International Political Sociology, or: The Social Ontology and Power Politics of Process’. In Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology, (pp. 368–77). Routledge., Huysmans, Jef, and Joao Pontes Nogueira. 2012. ‘International Political Sociology: Opening Spaces, Stretching Lines’. International Political Sociology, 6(1), pp. 1–3., Krishna, Sankaran. 2016. ‘Postcolonialism and international political sociology’. Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology, (pp. 71- 80). Routledge., Regnier, Cindy. 2023. ‘Preparing for War: wargaming the NATO-Russia confrontation in the Baltics’, Critical Studies on Security, pp.1-14., Seth, Sanjay, 2009. Historical sociology and postcolonial theory: Two strategies for challenging Eurocentrism. International Political Sociology, 3(3), pp.334-338., , ,