Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics

A Handbook
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-19-287114-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 1104 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This timely handbook offers a comprehensive, critical overview of current research on knowledge and expertise in international politics that helps readers navigate the growing literature in the field and explore new research agendas.

The handbook is based on a shared understanding that knowledge and expertise matter in politics and that knowledge claims are a form of power warranting critical interrogation. The chapters of Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics take different theoretical starting points to explore the complex relationship between knowledge and politics and investigate whose knowledge matters politically, why, how, and with what effects. The contributions are organized into five perspectives, highlighting the role of actors, practices, contexts, structures, and relations in the (re)production, circulation, and contestation of knowledge. Further chapters explore central knowledge debates and cutting-edge avenues for future research in the International Relations (IR) discipline. The handbook addresses themes such as the ethics and politics of knowing, new technologies, and ways to democratize, decolonize, and pluralize politically relevant knowledge.

Bringing insights from different sub-disciplines and policy fields together in one place, Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics consolidates the international politics of knowledge as a new, transdisciplinary paradigm in the discipline, providing numerous points of connection with debates around pressing global challenges.

With original theoretical expositions and granular thematic case studies, it is an invaluable companion to all those interested in adopting knowledge and expertise approaches in research, teaching, and policy work.

Chapters 1, 16, 27, 45, and 67 of this work are available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International open access licence. These parts of the work are free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bliesemann De Guevara, Berit

Kaczmarska, Katarzyna

Kurowska, Xymena

Poopuu, Birgit

Warnecke, Andrea

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bliesemann de Guevara, Berit

Kaczmarska, Katarzyna

Kurowska, Xymena

Poopuu, Birgit

Warnecke, Andrea

Über Autor(innen)

Berit Bliesemann de Guevara is Professor of International Politics and Co-Founder of the Centre for the International Politics of Knowledge at Aberystwyth University. She has been the principal investigator and co-investigator of projects studying the role of knowledge and expertise in and after violent conflict in Colombia and Myanmar and of international research networks on knowledge in conflict, funded by UK and German research councils.

Katarzyna Kaczmarska is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests centre on knowledge construction among scholars and practitioners of international politics, the theory and practice of academic freedom, and post-Soviet politics, as well as the ways in which socio-political contexts influence academic knowledge-making and use. She is the author of Making Global Knowledge in Local Contexts (Routledge, 2020).

Xymena Kurowska is Associate Professor in International Relations at Central European University in Vienna. She received her doctorate in political and social sciences from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and works within International Political Sociology, using social and security theory, psychosocial and anthropological approaches, and relational and interpretive methodologies.

Birgit Poopuu is Associate Professor of International Relations and co-director of the Central and Eastern European Security Hub (CEESHub) at Tallinn University's School of Governance, Law, and Society. Her research is curious about the role of radical and nonviolent knowledge and experience within international politics, with a focus on feminist and decolonial approaches to peace and conflict studies. She is the Principal Investigator of the European Horizon Twinning grant "A critical relational perspective on peace & security in CEE".

Andrea Warnecke is Assistant Professor in History and International Studies at Leiden University's Institute for History. She holds a PhD in political and social sciences from the European University Institute, Florence. Her research on the practices of international organizations in peace and conflict is informed by several years of experience as a senior researcher and consultant on conflict, peacebuilding, and migration in think tanks, NGOs, and on behalf of government agencies and international organizations.