The Imagination and International Relations
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چکیده
Abstract The imagination is at the heart of what it means to be human. For this reason, has been subject close examination across time and locale. Yet, while international relations (IR) researchers often mobilize term rhetorically, its character operations remain underconceptualized in discipline disconnected from rich literatures that explore vital faculty. This article identifies a commonsense account IR's most pervasive discourse on order anarchy. Taking cues Hobbesian tradition, here distinctly monological fearful pessimistic, rooted overriding dread sudden violent death. We draw out underlying assumptions by foregrounding deliberate, systematic, sustained construction Hobbes’ Leviathan, where acts as crucial animating impetus for subject, including oft-analogized “state nature” scenario. argue superseded multidisciplinary contemporary scholarship presents markedly different view. Anyone thinking seriously about today should disagree with account, reconsider theories predicated it, political possibilities entailed other approaches.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Studies Quarterly
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0020-8833', '1468-2478']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac024