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Download fileThe unfinished global revolution: intellectuals and the new politics of international relations
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posted on 2023-06-07, 17:33 authored by Martin ShawMore than a decade after the revolutions of 1989, we can see these as a high point of a new, worldwide and increasingly global wave of democratic revolution and counter-revolution. Violent struggles between the political forces unleashed have produced genocidal wars and stimulated global state formation. These developments present concerned citizens and students of international relations and politics with new challenges. This article criticizes two trends in the responses of political intellectuals in the West: the ‘new anarchism’ of some critical thinkers in the academic discipline of international relations, and ‘yesterday's radicalism’ which has led some left-wing critics to revive the defence of sovereignty for repressive and genocidal non-Western states. The lecture concludes by outlining an alternative ‘new politics’ of international relations
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Review of International StudiesISSN
0260-2105Publisher
Cambridge University PressExternal DOI
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4Volume
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