Another Weber: state, associations and domination in international relations
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Authors: | Morcillo Laiz, Álvaro Schlichte, Klaus |
Abstract: | While there has arguably been a partial reception of Weber in international relations (IR), we argue here that his ideas have either been misunderstood or neglected. In order to highlight the most valuable Weberian insights, we focus on two topics of crucial importance to IR. First, in our view, Weber's crucial contribution to the study of states is not his alleged emphasis on the monopoly of violence but his concern with the problem of legitimacy, which is the key to understanding why individuals actually orient an action according to their beliefs in the idea of a state. Second, Weber conducted seminal historical investigations on religion, the rationalization of economic ethics, and organizations that show that the diffusion of isomorphism has little to do with supposedly uninterested and persuasive scientific and professional associations. Instead, more attention should be paid to rational domination and less to reified concepts such as John Meyer's ‘rationalized otherhood’. These arguments are also examined empirically. |
Keywords: | Max Weber; International Relations; Economic ethics; Sociology | Issue Date: | 2016 | Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | Journal/Edited collection: | Cambridge Review of International Affairs | Start page: | 1448 | End page: | 1466 | Note: | 4 | Volume: | 29 | Type: | Artikel/Aufsatz | ISSN: | 1474-449X | Secondary publication: | yes | Document version: | Postprint | DOI: | 10.26092/elib/1616 | URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-elib60113 | Institution: | Universität Bremen | Faculty: | Fachbereich 08: Sozialwissenschaften (FB 08) | Institute: | Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien (InIIS) |
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