Esboços: histories in global contexts, 2021

An awareness of the multiplicity of internationalisms is a central concern of this special issue. In particular, we believe it is essential to deconstruct the ideological monoliths of the Cold War such as the idea of a uniform socialist internationalism. Sufficient distance since the collapse of the Soviet Union allows us to reevaluate the history of internationalism in new terms. In addition, our current position in the second decade of the twenty-first century provides impetus for this work as it now appears that the end of history moment has finally come to a close in a decade that is shaped by the resurgence of both nationalist and internationalist activities. This special issue seeks to extend this current of history writing further. It brings together novel subjects and diverse approaches to the intersection between the methodologies of Global History on the one hand and histories of internationalism on the other.

Critique d’art, 2001

The post-colonial and post-Cold War world reality, associated with the global expansion of the market and of information flows, have led the West, inevitably, to engage with the "Other". The world and history have entered a period where the new economic competition is mixed up with the variety of local cultures that Eurocentric discourse had excluded. The traditionally binary scheme of relations, polarised on the West and Non-West, Centre and Periphery, which were the basic structures of international power, is rapidly disintegrating, as well as its geopolitical model and way of thinking.

Global Intellectual History

Any number of issues raise the question of internationalism todayfrom the Corona virus to the nationalist waves in contemporary politics to the general nature of the post-Cold War environment. However, in the face of meaningful election cycles, debates over Brexit, torsions of 'nationalism' versus 'globalism', and skepticism towards international institutions, it's useful to perspectivize the issue in relation to not only intellectual history, but a diverse range of takes on the topic. Here, we provide an overview of a special issue dedicated to that taskthinking through layers and varieties of internationalism visa -vis figures, locales, and thematics less-explored or asking to be rethought.

Review of International Studies, 2019

What does the New Right want from international relations? In this article, we argue that the philosophy of the New Right is not reducible to a negation of internationalism. The New Right coalesce around a conceptualisation of the international driven by analytics and critiques of specific subjects, norms and practices, that should be treated as a distinct international theoretical offering. We refer to this vision as Reactionary Internationalism. This paper examines and locates this vision within the intellectual history of nationalism and internationalism by drawing on poststructuralist approaches to intellectual history and drawing evidence from a discourse analysis of recent Lega, Front National, Brexit and Trump campaigns. We find that, rather than advocating for the end of internationalism, the New Right seeks to reconstitute its normative architecture on the basis of inequality among identities. This entails dismantling Liberal economic and rights-based norms and reframing them around transactionalism and power grounded on identity. Reactionary Internationalism emerges as a distinct philosophy that identifies a hegemonic normative bind and advocates its unravelling so as to liberate subjects understood as defined by their birth-cultural identity.

International Relations, 2023

New Right actors are vocally seeking to change key international relations practices and institutions. We enquire how their philosophy of the international, which we call Reactionary Internationalism, is being socialised by a diverse group of international actors. Engaging with English School conceptualisations of international society and deploying discursive analysis of diplomatic positions, we examine the diplomacy of New Right actors and sympathisers on issues of rights and the limits of sovereign power. Through this empirical analysis it is demonstrated that opportunistic alliances between New Right politicians in democratic states, and authoritarian states such as China, are solidifying into an international compact that advocates radical normative change in international relations. This programme is centred on a new constitutive principle (birth-cultural sovereignty) and two new institutions (exclusive spheres of competence and transactionalism), that establish the terms of reference for a reactionary international society.

Contributions to the History of Concepts, 2018

The carnage of World War I gave rise to liberal visions for a new world order with democratized foreign policy and informed international public opinion. Conservatives emphasized continuity in national sovereignty, while socialists focused on the interests of the working class. While British diplomacy in the construction of the League of Nations has been widely discussed, we focus on contemporary uses of nationalism and internationalism in parliamentary and press debates that are more ideological. We also examine how failed internationalist visions influenced uses of these concepts during World War II, supporting alternative organizational solutions, caution with the rhetoric of democracy and public opinion, and ways to reconcile national sovereignty with a new world organization. The United Nations was to guarantee the interests of the leading powers (including the United States), while associations with breakthroughs of democracy were avoided. Nationalism (patriotism) and internat...

Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-Cold War Era, 2000

The meaning of 'ethnicity' 25 'Democracy': definition 27 Nationalism and its general implications 29 Types of nationalism 31 The appeal of ethnic identity 34 Notes 36 0 Contents vii 5 Nationalism, internationalism and property in the post-Cold War era 87 KATHERINE VERDERY What does the post-Cold War era mean? 87 Nationalism and internationalism: some Romanian examples 90 Romanians strategize into the post-Communist era 93 Property and identity 95 Socialist property and its restructuring 97 Acknowledgements 101 Notes 101 6 The little nation: minorities and majorities in the context of shifting geographies 103 SETENEY SHAMI Introduction: latter-day nationalism 103 Majorities and minorities: the Caucasian experience 105 The Caucasus: the home front? 107 Jordan: the home front? 109 Inchoate nationalism 111 Globalization in the periphery 114 Omar and Hayrettin: martyrs of some sort? 115 Lena and Sveta: economics u'ber alles 119 Conclusion: modernity unbound 124 Notes 126 PART III Attachments and arrangements 127 7 The grounds of the nation-state: identity, violence and territory 129 ARJUN APPADURAI Love of the nation 129 Full attachment 130 Predatory identities 132 Space and violence 134 Conclusion: globalization and governance 140 Notes 142

Interface vol. 6 no. 2: 1 - 12, 2014

Beginning with this text, we present the results of a theoretical examination of national construction that was elaborated within the context of the Nationalities Watch research group. In this paper, we discuss the meanings that “nationalism” and “internationalism” have acquired over the last centuries and we try to distinguish the nation from preceding forms of social organization. We argue that national communities result from the international integration of the productive system and the widespread dissemination of so-called modern values.