Browsing by Subject "international relations"

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    Coloring the Lines through Culture? Race and Racialization in International Relations
    (2016-09) Binay, Sema
    This dissertation analyzes the ways in which racial constructs processes of racialization operate in international politics and become consequential in constituting the contemporary global order. Specifically it asks: in the wake of the diffusion of domestic and international norms against racism, how are we to understand race and effects of racialization at the level of the international? In order to answer this question, I develop a theoretical framework of racialization that explains how human groups, including cultural and religious groups, are (re)defined as discrete entities with inherent dispositions and ordered hierarchically as to shape the actions and identities available for various actors. Although explicit racial hierarchies in inter-state politics became less prominent with decolonization and through international norms against racism, I argue that racialization continues to constitute domestic and global hierarchies through structural and productive power relations. As can be seen in racialization of Muslims and the debates about the rise of China, expressions of cultural difference and their association with various forms and objects of threat are a consequential medium through which racialization occurs in the contemporary global order.
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    Make Us Great Again: The Causes and Consequences of Declinism in Great Powers
    (2020-08) Ralston, Robert
    Dominant narratives of international decline emerge in great powers frequently, often independent of ‘objective’ measures of international decline. Such narratives frequently sustain policies of global expansion to save face, regain lost glory, and reverse decline. Yet we have little understanding of when and why narratives of international decline become dominant, why they resonate, or their policy consequences. When, and why, does declinism emerge and become salient in great powers? As narratives of decline become or are dominant, what policies are advanced in the name of reversing the country’s international decline? Using computerized text analyses of UK parliamentary speech and newspapers and US congressional and presidential speech and newspapers, I track declinism in political discourse in both countries between 1945 and the 2000s. I then explain when declinism becomes a live issue in great powers. I show how different narratives of decline prescribe different polices or behaviors for overcoming decline.
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    Transforming the University: Systemwide Academic Task Force on Forging an International University
    (University of Minnesota, 2006-01-31) Isaacman, Allen; Okediji, Ruth
    To become one of the top three public research universities in the world, the University of Minnesota must become a global university. This demands that internationalization, diversity, and academic excellence be inextricable intertwined and central to the University’s core mission. Two critical trends make the internationalization of the university a necessity. We live in an increasingly internationalized world. As the world is becoming internationalized, so too is the production of knowledge to understand that world. These twin trends have major implications for the University’s identity and mission – it must develop a global orientation and realize its place in a developing global network of engagement and scholarship. The University must be situated to provide expertise for practical action in fostering global social and economic change.