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Concepts at Work

On the Linguistic Infrastructure of World Politics

By: Piki Ish-Shalom

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Concepts at Work

On the Linguistic Infrastructure of World Politics

By: Piki Ish-Shalom

Concepts are socially and linguistically constructed and used for multiple purposes, such as justifying war in the name of democracy; or, using the idea of democracy to resist Western intervention and influence. In this fascinating and novel edited collection, Piki Ish-Shalom and his team of authors interrogate the “conceptions of concepts” in international relations. Using theoretical frameworks from Gramsci and Bourdieu, among others, the authors show that not interrogating the meaning of the language we use to talk about international relations obscures the way we understand (or portray) IR. The authors examine self-determination, winning in war, avoidance of war, military design and reform agenda, vagueness in political discourse, “blue economy,” friendship, and finally, the very idea of the “international community” itself. As the author asserts, Bourdieu’s sociology of field and Gramsci’s political theory combined “offer us a sociopolitical theory of relations of power and domination concealed by doxic knowledge and taken-for-granted rules, in which essential contested concepts and political-serving conceptions can and do play an important role.”

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University of Michigan Press

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047212868X

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9780472128686

Beyond the Veil of Knowledge

Triangulating Security, Democracy, and Academic Scholarship

By: Piki Ish-Shalom

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Beyond the Veil of Knowledge

Triangulating Security, Democracy, and Academic Scholarship

By: Piki Ish-Shalom

Is there a need to remodel constructivism to be more politically attuned? Author Piki Ish-Shalom calls for an activist academy that engages society and the polity to prevent the watering down of democracy, while helping to create a space for criticism. In this book, he suggests several concrete measures for this engagement within three spheres: individual theoretical work, the academic community as a whole, and within society and the polity. Beyond the Veil of Knowledge suggests that essentially contested concepts are a key medium that politicians use to try to minimize public resistance to their political goals. For constructivists, this means that the social construction of both social knowledge and the social world can be understood as the sociopolitical construction of knowledge and the sociopolitical world.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472131206

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9780472131204

Democratic Peace

A Political Biography

By: Piki Ish-Shalom

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Democratic Peace

A Political Biography

By: Piki Ish-Shalom

The so-called ivory tower is not—and never has been—isolated from real-world politics

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University of Michigan Press

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0472118765

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9780472118762

Democratic Peace

A Political Biography

By: Piki Ish-Shalom

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Democratic Peace

A Political Biography

By: Piki Ish-Shalom

The Democratic Peace Thesis holds that democracies rarely make war on other democracies. Political scientists have advanced numerous theories attempting to identify precisely which elements of democracy promote this mutual peace, often hoping that Democratic Peace could be the final and ultimate antidote to war. However, as the theories were taken up by political figures, the immediate outcomes were war and the perpetuation of hostilities. Political theorist Piki Ish-Shalom sketches the origins and early academic development of the Democratic Peace Thesis. He then focuses on the ways in which various Democratic Peace Theories were used by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both to shape and to justify U.S. foreign policy, particularly the U.S. stance on the Israeli-Palestinian situation and the War in Iraq. In the conclusion, Ish-Shalom boldly confronts the question of how much responsibility theoreticians must bear for the political uses—and misuses—of their ideas.

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0472029150

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9780472029150

Beyond the Veil of Knowledge

Triangulating Security, Democracy, and Academic Scholarship

By: Piki Ish-Shalom

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Triangulating Security, Democracy, and Academic Scholarship

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Concepts at Work

Concepts at Work

Beyond the Veil of Knowledge

Beyond the Veil of Knowledge

Democratic Peace

Democratic Peace

Democratic Peace

Democratic Peace

Beyond the Veil of Knowledge

Beyond the Veil of Knowledge

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