Obecnost i exkluzivita mezinárodní politické sociologie
The Generality and Exclusivity of International Political Sociology:

A Response to Jan Daniel and Dagmar Rychnovská

Summary/Abstract: The paper responds to Jan Daniel and Dagmar Rychnovská’s article from Mezinárodnívztahy 1/2015, whose aim was to establish International Political Sociology (IPS) as a specific strandwithin critical security studies. This project is criticised in the paper for three reasons. First, thedefinition of IPS through common features is so general that most critical research could fit in theIPS category. Second, the attempt to define IPS by negation is grounded in a distorted image ofdiscursive approaches to international politics. Third, the label is deployed in a way that excludesa range of related authors not only from IPS, but even from the ‘main currents’ of critical securitystudies. Rather than being an analytical category, IPS is thus more like a political tool through whicha distorted and exclusionary image of the discipline is being constructed.

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