Knowledge And Expertise In International Politics

Description

This timely handbook offers a comprehensive, critical overview of current research on knowledge and expertise in international politics that helps readers navigate the growing literature in the field and explore new research agendas.

The handbook is based on a shared understanding that knowledge and expertise matter in politics and that knowledge claims are a form of power warranting critical interrogation. The chapters of Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics take different theoretical starting points to explore the complex relationship between knowledge and politics and investigate whose knowledge matters politically, why, how, and with what effects. The contributions are organized into five perspectives, highlighting the role of actors, practices, contexts, structures, and relations in the (re)production, circulation, and contestation of knowledge. Further chapters explore central knowledge debates and cutting-edge avenues for future research in the International Relations (IR) discipline. The handbook addresses themes such as the ethics and politics of knowing, new technologies, and ways to democratize, decolonize, and pluralize politically relevant knowledge.

Bringing insights from different sub-disciplines and policy fields together in one place, Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics consolidates the international politics of knowledge as a new, transdisciplinary paradigm in the discipline, providing numerous points of connection with debates around pressing global challenges.

With original theoretical expositions and granular thematic case studies, it is an invaluable companion to all those interested in adopting knowledge and expertise approaches in research, teaching, and policy work.

Chapters 1, 16, 27, 45, and 67 of this work are available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International open access licence. These parts of the work are free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Table of contents

Foreword, Cynthia Enloe
1:Introduction: Studying International Politics Through the Lens of Knowledge and Expertise, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Xymena Kurowska, Birgit Poopuu, and Andrea Warnecke
PART I: KNOWLEDGE DEBATES IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
2:International Politics by Other Means: The Role of the Scholar in IR, Vineet Thakur
3:International Relations Knowledge and Practice: The Crisis of Critical Theory?, Beate Jahn
4:Gender and Knowledge (Re)Production in International Thought, Kimberly Hutchings
5:Worlding and Worlds, David L. Blaney and Arlene B. Tickner
6:Science and International Relations: Knowing and Making the International, Dagmar Vorlí?ek
7:Not Knowing as Expertise: Knowledge and the Politics of Ignorance, Matthias Gross
8:Knowing Violence in International Politics, Werner Distler and Mariam Salehi
9:'Artificial Intelligence' and the Production of Knowledge and Expertise in International Relations, Ingvild Bode and Hendrik Huelss
10:Studying Knowledge: An Analytical Guide for International Politics, Audrey Alejandro
11:Coloniality of Knowledge (Re)Production: Individual Entanglements and Collective Solidarities in Epistemic North-South Relationships, Siddharth Tripathi
PART II: ACTOR-CENTRED APPROACHES
12:Actor-Centred Approaches to Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics, Andrea Warnecke and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
13:The Politics of Knowledge Production in International Organizations, Katharina Glaab and Nele Kortendiek
14:Legal Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics, Mikkel Jarle Christensen and Mikael Rask Madsen
15:Informal Ties and Expertise in Global Crisis Governance: An Exploration of Network Methodologies, Andrea Warnecke
16:Intimate Networks and Strategic Knowledge in Peacebuilding Interventions, Roland Kosti? and Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
17:Deep Co-Production of Human Security at the Science-Politics Nexus, Šárka Waisová
18:Quantified Expertise: Connecting Science and Politics in Global Governance, Justyna Bandola-Gill
19:From Product to Process: Science and the Making of International Environmental Governance, Rolf Lidskog and Göran Sundqvist
PART III: PRACTICE APPROACHES
20:Practice Approaches to Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Andrea Warnecke
21:The Embedded Study of International Knowledge Practices: Towards a Methodology of Ironic Immersion, Trine Villumsen Berling
22:Thinking, Feeling, and Choosing: Pragmatism, Political Psychology, and the Intelligence Community, Janice Gross Stein
23:Arts-Based Methods in IR: What Knowledges Become Possible, Saara Särmä and Juha A. Vuori
24:The Co-Production of Expertise in Global Governance, Annabelle Littoz-Monnet
25:Producing Knowledge to Problematize War: A Foucauldian Approach to Knowledge Practices, Christine Andrä
26:Forensic Experts and Knowledge Practices in Transitional Justice Scenarios, María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra
27:Algorithmic Knowledge and International Politics, Rocco Bellanova and Linda Monsees
28:Assembling Knowledge Through Pilot Projects and Massive Open Online Courses in International Policymaking, Maria Martin de Almagro
29:Instrument Constituencies and Spaces of Knowing Governance, Jan-Peter Voß
30:War and Peace: Techno-Political Assemblages in the Postcolonial Middle East, Nikolas Kosmatopoulos and Chloe Nasr
PART IV: CONTEXT-CENTRED APPROACHES
31:Context-Centred Approaches to Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics, Katarzyna Kaczmarska
32:Hierarchies and Contexts in International Relations Knowledge Production, Beverley Loke and Catherine Owen
33:A Broadening of International Relations: Knowledge Production Beyond West-Centrism, Yong-Soo Eun
34:Queer Knowing and Knowledge: The Case of Queer IR, Cai Wilkinson
35:The Problem with Cultural Contexts, Christian Reus-Smit
36:Academic Freedom and the Contexts of Knowledge Production, Katarzyna Kaczmarska
37:The Global Easts in the Geopolitics of Knowledge: The Decolonial Imperative, Martin Müller and Alexandra Yatsyk
38:The Politics of International Relations: Glimpses from Chile and Uruguay, Paulo Ravecca and Camilo López Burian
39:The Everyday Practices of Making a Global Discipline, Ari Jerrems, Mariela Cuadro, and Melody Fonseca
40:Creating a Global International Relations Section at the International Studies Association, Beatrix Futak-Campbell
41:Experts and Public Trust in the Policy Field of Climate Change, Alexander Ruser
PART V: STRUCTURAL APPROACHES
42:Structural Approaches to Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics, Birgit Poopuu and Xymena Kurowska
43:The Violens in International Relations: Can We Produce Knowledge Differently?, Birgit Poopuu, Elisabeth Schweiger, and Elena Simon
44:Knowledge Regimes and the Postcolonial Hierarchies of International Health Quantification, Luis Aue
45:Regimes of Power/Non-Knowledge in Global Politics, Claudia Aradau, Lucrezia Canzutti, and Sarah Perret
46:Experts in Conflict: Having Been There but Not Being From There, Victor Anas and Suda Perera
47:Queering Humanitarian Response Through LGBTIQ People's Expertise, Jamie J. Hagen, Anupama Ranawana, and Emma Pritchard
48:Social Movements and Insurgent Social Theory: Making Theoretical Knowledge Through Collective Action, Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Laurence Cox
49:EU Foreign Policy Ideas as International Relations of Domination: A Neo-Gramscian Perspective, Michael Merlingen
50:Poverty, Inequality, and Knowledge in Development Politics, Gloria Novovi?
PART VI: RELATIONAL APPROACHES
51:Relational Approaches to Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics, Xymena Kurowska and Birgit Poopuu
52:Ways of Knowing: A Relational Account, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson and Sujin Heo
53:Relationality with Asian Characteristics? Healing the Columbus Syndrome of International Relations, Emilian Kavalski
54:Anthropological Approaches to Knowledge in International Politics, Emma Mc Cluskey
55:Fielding Knowledge: The Problematic Case of Human Rights Advocacy and Genocide Labelling, Alistair Markland
56:Field Methodology and the Relational Emergence of an 'Interventionary Object', Anna Danielsson
57:Being as a Mode of Knowing: Feminist Knowledge on Affect, Linda Åhäll
58:Transnational Feminist Solidarity: Story as a Relational Approach to Knowledge Production, Aytak Dibavar
59:Complexity Thinking, Posthumanism, and International Relations Knowledge, Erika Cudworth and Stephen Hobden
60:Pluriversal Knowledge and Shamans: The Aymara Yatiris as Knowers and Diplomats, Amaya Querejazu
PART VII: DISRUPTIONS AND MEDITATIONS
61:Cosmologies, Sciences, Planetary Politics: Reflections on 'Knowledge' in New Registers, Milja Kurki
62:The Future of Academic Expertise: Speculative European Bureaucratic Fabulations, Jonathan Luke Austin and Anna Leander
63:Racism and Racialization in International Relations Knowledge, Amal Abu-Bakare
64:Reflections on Imagination of Future and AI, Toni ?erkez, James Finnis, Milja Kurki, Helen Miles, and Joseph Thurgate
65:Hermeneutical Ignorance and 'Strong Objectivity' in Knowledge Production about the Russo-Ukrainian War, Thomas Fetzer, Xymena Kurowska, and Kateryna Zarembo
66:The Necessity of Being Negative: Critique and Care in the Anthropocene, Philip Conway
67:Creating Knowledge by Editing a Handbook: A Self-Critical Reflection, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Xymena Kurowska, Birgit Poopuu, and Andrea Warnecke