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First published online March 17, 2019

Repertoires of statecraft: instruments and logics of power politics

Stacie E Goddard, Paul K MacDonald, and Daniel H Nexon [email protected]View all authors and affiliations
Volume 33, Issue 2
https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117819834625

Abstract

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.

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Stacie E Goddard is Professor of political science and Director of the Madeleine K Albright Institute at Wellesley College. Her book, When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and World Order was published by Cornell Studies in Security Affairs in 2018. Her articles have appeared in International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, International Theory, and Security Studies and her first book Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy: Jerusalem and Northern Ireland was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010.
Paul K MacDonald is Associate Professor of political science at Wellesley College. His most recent book Twilight of the Titans: Great Power Decline and Retrenchment, co-authored with Joseph M. Parent, was published by Cornell University Press in 2018. His articles have appeared in International Security, Security Studies, International Organization, Review of International Studies, Political Science Quarterly, and the American Political Science Review, and his first book Networks of Domination: The Social Foundations of Peripheral Conquest in International Politics was published by Oxford University Press in 2014.
Daniel H Nexon is Associate Professor in the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. During 2009–2010, he worked in the US Department of Defense as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. From 2014–2018, he was the lead editor of International Studies Quarterly. He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (Princeton University Press, 2009), which won the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Best Book Award for 2010.

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Volume 33, Issue 2
Pages: 304 - 321
Article first published online: March 17, 2019
Issue published: June 2019

Keywords

  1. international order
  2. international structure
  3. networks
  4. power politics
  5. relationalism
  6. repertoires
  7. statecraft
  8. technological change

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Stacie E Goddard
Wellesley College
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Paul K MacDonald
Wellesley College
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Daniel H Nexon
Georgetown University
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Daniel H Nexon, Georgetown University, Mortara Center for International Studies, 3600 N Street NW, 36th St NW, Washington, DC 20007 USA. Email: [email protected]

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