Humiliation in International Relations A Pathology of Contemporary International Systems

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5099-3466-9
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 284 g

In international relations (IR), some states often deny the legal status of others, stigmatising their practices or even their culture. Such acts of deliberate humiliation at the diplomatic level are common occurrences in modern diplomacy. In the period following the breakup of the famous 'Concert of Europe', many kinds of club-based diplomacy have been tried, all falling short of anything like inclusive multilateralism. Examples of this effort include the G7, G8, G20 and even the P5. Such 'contact groups' are put forward as if they were actual ruling institutions, endowed with the power to exclude and marginalise.

Today, the effect of such acts of humiliation is to reveal the international system's limits and its lack of diplomatic effectiveness. The use of humiliation as a regular diplomatic action steadily erodes the power of the international system. These actions appear to be the result of a botched mixture of a colonial past, a failed decolonisation, a mistaken vision of globalisation and a very dangerous post-bipolar reconstruction.

Although this book primarily takes a social psychology approach to IR, it also mobilizes the resources of the French sociological tradition, mainly inspired by Emile Durkheim. It is translated from Le temps des humiliés. Pathologie des relations internationales (Paris, Odile Jacob, 2014).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Badie, Bertrand

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Humiliation in the History of International Relations: The Discovery of a New Form of Social Pathology
1. Pitfalls of the Ordinary Lives of People

Tectonics of Societies

Lack of Integration

The Uncertainties of Status

The End of the Cold War and Beyond

2. Humiliation, or Power without Rules

Power Against Humiliation

How Power Goes Wrong

3. Types of Humiliation and their Diplomacies

Constructing a Typology
Type 1: Humiliation by Lowering of Status

Type 2: Humiliation through Denial of Equality

Type 3: Humiliation by Relegation

Type 4: Humiliation through Stigmatisation

Part Two: An International System Fed by Humiliation
4. Constitutive Inequality: The Colonial Past

Exceptions and Outrages

Pathways of Humiliation

New forms of Patronage

5. Structural Inequality: To be Outside the Elite

The Broken Dream of the 'Middle Powers'

Emergent Powers and the Bonds of Past Humiliations

Small Countries' Narrow Range of Action

6. Functional Inequality: Being Excluded from Governance

Minilateralism

Oligarchic Pressure

A Certain Diplomatic Paternalism

Part Three: The Dangerous Repercussions that Follow Humiliation: Towards an Anti-System?
7. The Mediating Role of Societies

The International Mobilisation of Societies

Neo-Nationalism and Fundamentalism

The Insoluble Contradictions of the Arab Spring

8. Are there Anti-System Diplomacies?

Oppositional Diplomacies

Diplomacies of Deviance

9. Uncontrolled Violence

New Conflicts, New Violence

Violence and Social Integration

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Badie, Bertrand
Bertrand Badie is University Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po, Paris.