2019/03/17 by Stacie E. Goddard, Stacie E Goddard, Paul K MacDonald +3 · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #International Relations and Foreign Policy #Peacebuilding and International Security #Political Conflict and Governance
paper · doi:10.1177/0047117819834625
Issues involving ‘statecraft’ lie at the heart of most major debates about world politics, yet scholars do not go far enough in analyzing how the processes of statecraft themselves can reshape the international system. We draw on the growing relational-processual literature in international relations theory to explore how different modes of statecraft can help create and refashion the structure of world politics. In particular, we argue that scholars should reconceive statecraft in terms of repertoires. An emphasis on repertoires sheds light on a number of issues, including how statecraft influences patterns of technological innovation, the construction of institutional and normative orders, and the pathways through which states mobilize power in world politics.