Re: AUT: Fwd: new issue: European Journal of International Relations:

["Daniel G. Skinner" <dskinner@xxxxxx>]

Dear Nicholas,
When you find the time I will take you up on the pdf.

Cheers,
Dan Skinner

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicholas J. Kiersey" <nkiersey@xxxxxx>
Date: Monday, November 15, 2004 8:50 am
Subject: AUT: Fwd: new issue: European Journal of International Relations: Utopia, Empire, and Harmony in 21st-Century International Theory

> If anyone wants a .PDF of this, just let me know...
>
> >  WILLIAM A. CALLAHAN University of Durham
> >
> > Abstract:
> >
> > Using a comparative approach to international relations theory,
> this
> > article examines how ancient ideas are being recycled to
> describe
> > world order in the 21st century. In particular, it provides a
> thick
> > description of three models of utopia in global politics ? Great
> > Harmony and Harmony with-difference from China, and Empire from
> Hardt
> > and Negri. Using an unexplored set of Chinese-language texts,
> the
> > article first excavates how Communist Party intellectuals in
> China
> > have been writing about the ancient Confucian ideal of Great
> Harmony
> > as a way of promoting the People?s Republic of China?s role as a
> Great
> > Power in the 21st century. Second, it uses Hardt and Negri?s
> > deterritorialized concept of Empire to criticize Great Harmony
> > discourse as a transcendent and state-centric model of world
> order.
> > Hardt and Negri?s notion of immanent utopia is elaborated in the
> third
> > section using another set of Chinese texts that describe the
> flexible
> > methodology of ?Harmony-with-difference?. The article concludes
> that
> > Harmony-with-difference provides a practical logic for achieving
> Hardt
> > and Negri?s immanent utopia. The article contributes two things
> to
> > international relations theory ? (1) using Chinese language
> texts, it
> > broadens the reach of comparative international relations theory
> and
> > (2) it uses the concept of Empire to challenge Chinese concepts
> of
> > harmony, while using Chinese theory to elaborate on Hardt and
> Negri?s
> > utopia. In this way, the article shows how key texts have
> productively
> > recycled the classical concepts of utopia, empire, and harmony
> as a
> > way of remembering the future for the 21st century.
>
> Nicholas J. Kiersey
> PhD Student, Environmental Design & Planning
> Virginia Tech
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> email: nkiersey@xxxxxx
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>
>
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