Assessing the Impact of Hybrid Threats on Ontological Security via Entanglement
The rapid rise of innovation and technological advances has shown that the prospects of security breaches across states and societies are also increasing.
‘Politics of Gratitude’ – Bridging Ontologies: Patronage, Roles, and Emotions
Research on patronage would benefit from a dialogue with Role Theory and Emotions Theory so that IR scholars can explore more about politics of gratitude.
Review – Quantum Mind and Social Science
Alexander Wendt claims the supremacy of scientific realism by establishing a synthesis between two irreconcilable ontologies: the physical and social.
Recrafting International Relations through Relationality
International Relations must be reconceptualised to prioritize the relations that constitute units rather than to proceed from the assumption that units are self-evident.
Between Radical Posthumanism and Weak Anthropocentrism
Analysing posthuman-ness calls into question whether posthuman IR is posthuman as none of IR’s posthumanesque disquisitions develop an ontology of the international.
Interview – Maria Mälksoo
Dr Mälksoo explores the ontological security and identities of the Baltic states and compares the historical memory of these states to the Russian biographical narrative.
Interview – Aleš Karmazin
Ales Karmazin discusses the concept of Chinese correlative ontology and how it challenges binary logic and puts forward a more nuanced vision of societies.
(Im)possible Universalism: Remarks on the Politics and Ethics of Grammar
In the image, what can you see? Understanding the ethical claims to universality in IR is, for heuristic purposes only, similar to looking at the image.
Interview – J. Ann Tickner
Professor J. Ann Tickner discusses the vibrancy of contemporary feminist IR, the divide between positivism and postpositivism and the need for IR from the margins.
What the Philosophy of Science is Not Good For
The field of IR has been concerned about its scientific status for decades. This concern has led to a number of efforts to make the field “truly scientific” by adopting one or another philosophical and methodological stance: behaviorism in the 1950s, neopositivism in the 1970s and 1980s, and critical realism in the 1990s.
