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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 13d

'Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power' 🌎

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Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 20d

🚨New First View Article🚨

"Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power" by Kasper Arabi is now available #OpenAccess!

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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · 22d

Many thanks, Nat. This paper really grew out of the Strange conference in London last year.

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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks for introducing me to both Susan Strange and everday research, Ben! Had to find my slightly warped copy of States and Markets, which I originally bought for the 2019 IPE specialization at UCPH, to write this!

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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · 22d

The paper is published as open access and can be found here: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core

Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power

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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · 22d

While everyday grievances were filtered out by the selective context for decades (due to factors such as cheap credit), the perceptual selectivity of the US state has shifted and paved the way for those perceptions to inform the most powerful offices in DC.

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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · 22d

I illustrate these mechanisms empirically using Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs. Zooming in on transformations of the American sphere of production, I conclude that the tariffs partly can be explained by shifting everyday perceptions in former US industrial powerhouses.

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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · 22d

Drawing on state theory, I argue that a perceptual selectivity is key to understanding the relationship between the everyday and how the state projects its power internationally. While some everyday perceptions have access to (international) policymaking, others are blocked by the selective context.

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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · 22d

To overcome this, I approach the state as an intermediary between the everyday on one hand and structural power in the international system on the other. A given state’s deployment of structural power, my argument goes, depends on everyday legitimacy to remain stable.

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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · 22d

While more than 35 years have passed since Susan Strange published her four-faceted notion of structural power in States and Markets, the concept still offers much to analyses of contemporary international affairs. Yet, its everyday underpinnings remain vastly undertheorized.

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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · 22d

New paper out in @risjnl.bsky.social! 🚨

I explore the everyday foundations of structural power in the international system and advance a new theoretical framework that reconceptualizes the state as a mediator between the two levels.

Time for a short thread! 🧵👇

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Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

Do you like ketchup? Not only are you wrong, but you may be a fascist. Not really, but in my 🍅New Publication🍅 "Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce", in International Political Sociology, I argue that memes about ketchup showcase Neo-Nazi solidarity.
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Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce: Memes as Silly/Serious Bordered Spaces in International Relations

Abstract. This paper draws on previous scholarship on humor, memes, and seriousness in International Relations to produce a novel means for understanding o

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Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · Mar 4

Happy pancake day everyone! Here’s a brand new recipe that I’ve spent months working on. Please download and tell your friends! It’s called:

Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement

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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · Mar 12

Congrats, Chris! 🎉

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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · Feb 28

Sejt! Tillykke, Rune. Det ser vildt spændende ud!!

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Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · Feb 26

New article out📑
"The end of economic hegemony? Studying economic ideas in a post-neoliberal world"

In the 20th century, debates on economic policy were closely tied to academic economics. From Keynesianism to neoliberalism, economic schools of thought have shaped historical epochs.

The end of economics hegemony? studying economic ideas in a post-neoliberal world

Since the 1990s, a particular approach to analysing the political influence of economic ideas has emerged in International Political Economy (IPE)—often labelled ‘the ideational turn’. This approac...

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Guillermo Alonso Simón @galonsosimon.bsky.social · Dec 12

🚨Publication alert! 🚨

Happy to announce the publication of my first solo academic work! I critique how 'convergence' is deployed in debates about the Eurozone crisis and beyond, offering a constructivist edge to discussions about capitalist restructuring in the Eurozone.

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Opening the Black Box of ‘Convergence’ in the European Monetary Union: A Discursive Analysis

‘Convergence’ stands out as a prominent signifier in discourse about the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), recently also gaining prominence in debates within Comparative Political Economy (...

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David Rischel @davidrischel.bsky.social · Dec 4

So, I recently had my first academic article published. It's called Property, Nature, and the Freedom to Roam, and it's open access. I argue for the freedom to roam and against the view that private property requires the right to exlude. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Property, nature, and the freedom to roam

This paper explores if people should be able to enjoy a freedom to roam, understood as the right of every person to stay on landowners’ properties, regardless of the will of the landowners. I make ...

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Nicholas Buhmann-Holmes @nbuhmann-holmes.bsky.social · Dec 18

Thrilled to have the first article of my PhD published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Focusing on Denmark in the 1910s, the article shows how democratic politicians use foreign revolutions opportunistically to attract voters. (1/4)

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Jess Eastland-Underwood @jessunderwood.bsky.social · Nov 25

My first blog looking at race, 'the economy' and the 2024 election. This one is for American #PoliSci scholars, looks at the perennial polling of 'the economy' as the most important issue in US elections. Please let me know what you think. #PoliSky wp.me/p3I2YF-exK

The 2024 Elections: Votes cast for Trump over ‘the economy’ may be as much about race as inflation

Many commentators have sought to explain Donald Trump’s 2024 election win through Americans’ concerns about inflation and the economy more broadly. Through her research which explores how Americans…

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · Nov 18

Randall Germain asking “How is E.H. Carr representative of mid-C20th intellectuals who tried to understand disruptions within the world’s political economy?”
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A Second Twenty Years’ Crisis? - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

How is E.H. Carr representative of mid-twentieth century intellectuals who tried to understand not so much the political irruptions of their time, but rather deeper disruptions within the world’s poli...

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Neil Warner @neilwarner.bsky.social · Nov 18

I put together a starter pack of people who work on political economy histories, and intersections between history and political economy. Let me know if you would like to be added or have suggestions on people to add.

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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · Nov 18

The full piece has been published with Open Access and can be found here:

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Overcoming methodological statism: new avenues for hegemony research

The course of contemporary international affairs has catapulted the scholarship on inter-state hegemony into an important period of progress and development. Forwarded as Hegemony Studies 3.0, a ne...

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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · Nov 18

I hope this piece encourages IPE scholars to rediscover hegemony studies and makes current hegemony scholars aware of recent developments within IPE. Doing so, I argue, will allow the scholarship’s current period of progress and development to continue for even longer.
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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · Nov 18

However, by highlighting recent developments within IPE as ways forward, I show how hegemony scholarship has parted ways with IPE over the past ~20 years. While hegemony studies were once an integrated part of IPE, they now seem more aligned with IR and/or Security Studies.
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