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Comparisons in Global Security Politics

Comparisons in Global Security Politics

Representing and Ordering the World
Buch | Softcover
290 Seiten
2024
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-4183-9 (ISBN)
CHF 34,90 inkl. MwSt
Comparison is a central feature of the practice of interstate relations, yet it is rarely studied. This book demonstrates the significance of comparison in world politics and reveals how comparative knowledge is produced, how it becomes politically relevant and how its practices shape security politics.
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.


Comparative practices are integral to global security politics. The balance of power politics, status competitions and global security governance would not be possible without them. Yet, they are rarely treated as the main object of study.


Exploring the varied uses of comparisons, this book addresses three key questions:


•How is comparative knowledge produced?


•How does it become politically relevant?


•How do comparative practices shape security politics?


This book takes a bold new step in uniting disparate streams of research to show how comparative practices order governance processes and modulate competitive dynamics in world politics.

Thomas Müller is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. Mathias Albert is Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. Kerrin Langer is Research Associate at the Department of Social Sciences at TU Dortmund University.

Introduction: Practices All the Way Down? Comparisons in Global Security Politics - Thomas Müller, Mathias Albert and Kerrin Langer


PART I: Teasing Out Comparative Practices


2. The Construction of Status in Security Politics: Rules, Comparisons and Second-Guessing Collective Beliefs - Paul Beaumont


3. Defence Analysis and Military Data at the IISS: How to Count and When is a Tank Modern? - Bastian Giegerich and James Hackett


4. Seeing Deterrence and Defence: Visual Representations of Military Force Comparisons between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in the 1980s - Gabi Schlag


5. What Drives Status Comparisons? An Experimental Study of Status Attribution in the Field of Space Exploration - Paul Musgrave and Steven Ward


PART II: How Comparisons Constitute Governance Objects


6. Not Yet Comparable? Maritime Security Knowledge and the Messiness of Epistemic Infrastructures - Christian Bueger


7. Framing (State) Fragility: The Construction of Imaginary Global Spaces - Keith Krause


8. Mapping the Dark and Ornamenting the Order: Comparisons in Global Crime Governance - Anja P. Jakobi and Lena Herbst


9. The Cybersecurity Ecosystem and the Datafication of Threats and Capabilities - Madeleine Myatt and Thomas Müller


PART III: How Comparisons Reshape Competitive Dynamics


10. ‘The Old World Fought, the Modern World Counts’: Naval Armament Policies, Force Comparisons and International Status, 1889–1922 - Kerrin Langer


11. Force Comparison and Conventional Arms Control at the End of the East–West Conflict - Hans-Joachim Schmidt


12. ‘Winning the Technology Competition’: Narratives, Power Comparisons and the US–China AI Race - Nike Retzmann


13. Conclusion: Comparative Ordering in Security Politics and Beyond - Thomas Müller

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Keith Krause, Christian Bueger, Gabi Schlag, Nike Retzmann, Bastian Giegerich
Zusatzinfo 10 Line drawings, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-5292-4183-9 / 1529241839
ISBN-13 978-1-5292-4183-9 / 9781529241839
Zustand Neuware
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