Considering Democracy and Power in Light of the Kyle Rittenhouse Acquittal
At what point do we stop repeating not because the system gets fixed but because we stop trying to exist with it and within it? What happens then?
A Foucauldian Reading of the Global Compact for Migration
Understanding security in its larger function of ordering the social illuminates the exceptionality surrounding human mobilities and challenges concepts such as ‘border’, and ‘citizenship’.
International Political Sociology Contributions to International Relations
The main objective of the Foucauldian IR should be to clearly present the possible original contributions to IR in understanding and explaining global politics.
Tears and Laughter: Affective Failure and Mis/recognition in Feminist IR Research
No one knows how or to what extent affect and failure will enter your research. So it may be reassuring to know that affect failure is not a failure of research practice.
10th Anniversary Interview – Charlotte Epstein
To celebrate E-IR’s 10th anniversary we asked some of our existing interviewees two further questions reflecting on the last decade in International Relations.
Review – Civil Wars: A History in Ideas
An exponent of longue durée history, Armitage brings together several trains of thought in this volume which begins in ancient Rome and ends in contemporary Syria.
Interview – Charlotte Epstein
Charlotte Epstein discusses the impact Foucault has had on her thinking, explains why discourse matters in the study of IR, and assesses the politics of surveillance.
From Sovereignty to War: Foucault’s Analytic of Power
Foucault’s work draws our attention to the fact that in an age characterized by mechanisms of exclusion of those who threaten the human race that war, not sovereignty, is political strategy.
The Past Is Dead. Long Live the Past! A Manifesto for (Teaching) Social Change
Historiography becomes not only a valuable object of study, but also a crucial reminder that every present has its own version of the past.
Theory and Other Languages
While utilizing theory, can potentially be done only on the basis of existing translations, anything more substantive will benefit from attention to the original source.
