IR2501 THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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IR2501THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

• LECTURE 23
• IR FUTURE TRENDS

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Key Transformations

• CHANGING POLITICAL ARCHITECTURE
• The end of the Cold War and the Unipolar Moment
  (Hyper-power)
• 9/11 and Asymmetrical Power
• Civil Wars and Collapsed States

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Changing Political Architecture(Continued)

• 4. Refugees and Migrants
• 5. Crisis of Representation New Constellations
  of Power

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CHANGING ECONOMIC STRUCTURES

• Information Age
• Communications Revolution
• Knowledge Economy

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Changing Economic Structures(Continued)

• 4. Feminization of Workforce
• 5. Human Trafficking
• 6. Technological Imperialism

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CHANGING CULTURAL MILIEU

• Virtual Society
• Homogenization and Fragmentation
• Mediated Social Connections

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Changing Cultural Milieu(Continued)

• 4. Atomism
• 5. Crisis of Identity
• 6. New Social Movements (e.g., Religious
  Resurgence)

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Beyond IR Theory

• CULTURAL TURN
• Language and the Constitution of Reality
• Interpretation vs. Explanation
• Power/Knowledge Nexus

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Beyond IR Theory(Continued)

• II. Crisis of Sovereignty
• Decline of the nation-state
• Multiple Sites of Authority and Power
• Global Flows (People, Ideas, Goods, Objects
• New Cultural Formations and Identities

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Beyond IR Theory(Continued)

• III. National to International Political
  Sociology
• Modernity and the Nation-State
• Global Crisis
• New Conceptual Apparatus

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Beyond IR Theory(Continued)

• IV. From State Security to Human Security
• Protection against physical violence
• Question of Human Dignity
• Recognition of Cultural Autonomy

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Beyond IR Theory(Continued)

• Key Question Is IR Theory equipped
• to comprehend the international?