Ordering disorder: The making of world politics

Johnson, Jamie, Basham, Victoria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8829-5119 and Thomas, Owen 2022. Ordering disorder: The making of world politics. Review of International Studies 48 (4) , pp. 607-625. 10.1017/S0260210522000183

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Abstract

This article offers insights into the character and composition of world order. It does so by focusing on how world order is made and revealed through seemingly disorderly events. We examine how societies struggle to interpret and respond to disorderly events through three modes of treatment: tragedy, crisis, and scandal. These, we argue, are the dominant modes of treatment in world politics, through which an account of disorder is articulated and particular political responses are mobilised. Specifically, we argue that each mode provides a particular way of problematising disorder, locating responsibility, and generating political responses. As we will demonstrate, these modes instigate the ordering of disorder, but they also agitate and reveal the contours of order itself. We argue, therefore, that an attentiveness to how we make sense of and respond to disorder offers the discipline new opportunities for interrogating the underlying forces, dynamics, and structures that define contemporary world politics.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Subjects:	J Political Science > JZ International relations
Additional Information:	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	0260-2105
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	22 April 2022
Date of Acceptance:	10 February 2022
Last Modified:	02 May 2024 13:46
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/149265

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