Diversity and Dominance in International Relations Scholarship
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DIVERSITY AND DOMINANCE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCHOLARSHIP Dissertation von Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Ph.D. eingereicht am 4. Juni 2018 am Fachbereich Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften der Freien Universität Berlin Autorin: Wiebke Wemheuer-Vogelaar 0 Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse Arbeitsstelle Transnationale Beziehungen, Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft Fachbereich für Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften Ihnestr. 22 14195 Berlin [email protected] Zweitgutachter: Prof. Michael J. Tierney Hilton Professor of International Relations Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations Government Department College of William and Mary 427 Scotland Street 23185 Williamsburg, Virginia (USA) [email protected] Datum der Disputation: 11.07.2018 i Contents I. List of tables ............................................................................................................................. v II. List of figures ......................................................................................................................... vii III. List of abbreviations .............................................................................................................. ix IV. List of appendices ..................................................................................................................... x V. Danksagung (Acknoweldgements) .......................................................................................... xi VI. Preface ................................................................................................................................ xiii 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Research question and design ................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Core findings .............................................................................................................................. 4 1.3 Limitations ................................................................................................................................. 6 1.4 Overview of this dissertation ..................................................................................................... 8 2. The Global IR debate on diversity and dominance, ................................................................. 10 2.1 Dominance ............................................................................................................................... 11 2.2. Diversity .................................................................................................................................. 17 3. Conceptual and methodological framework ........................................................................... 28 3.1 Main concepts ......................................................................................................................... 28 3.1.1 The threefold conceptualization of diversity ..................................................................... 28 3.1.2 Dominance ......................................................................................................................... 32 3.2 Areas of investigation .............................................................................................................. 33 3.3 Operationalization ................................................................................................................... 35 3.3.1 The 2014 TRIP faculty survey ............................................................................................. 35 3.3.2 Journal content analysis and benchmark values ............................................................... 36 3.3.3 Additional survey questions ............................................................................................... 50 3.4 Case selection .......................................................................................................................... 51 3.4.1 Journal profiles ................................................................................................................... 54 3.5 Roadmap for the case studies ................................................................................................. 61 4. Case Studies ........................................................................................................................... 62 ii 4.1 Case study on North American journals .................................................................................. 62 4.1.1 Descriptive results: geographical diversity ........................................................................ 62 4.1.2 Descriptive results: thematic and theoretical diversity ...................................................... 74 4.1.3 Conclusions about North American journals ..................................................................... 85 4.2 Case study on Latin American journals .................................................................................... 88 4.2.1 Descriptive results: geographical diversity ........................................................................ 88 4.2.2 Descriptive results: thematic and theoretical diversity ...................................................... 97 4.2.3 Conclusions about Latin American journals ..................................................................... 108 4.3 Case study on European journals .......................................................................................... 111 4.3.1 Descriptive results: geographical diversity ...................................................................... 111 4.3.2 Descriptive results: thematic and theoretical diversity .................................................... 120 4.3.3 Conclusions about European journals .............................................................................. 130 4.4 Comparative chapter with main conclusions about geographical and thematic diversity in IR journals ........................................................................................................................................ 133 4.4.1 Comparison of geographical diversity ............................................................................. 133 4.4.2 Comparison of thematic and theoretical diversity ........................................................... 140 4.4.3 Comparison of journal analysis to additional survey findings ......................................... 148 4.4.4 Discussion about patterns of dominance ......................................................................... 150 4.4.5 Conclusions of the comparative case study ..................................................................... 158 5. Under the microscope: The German IR community .............................................................. 162 5.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 162 5.2 Methodology .......................................................................................................................... 162 5.2.1 The 2014 TRIP survey ....................................................................................................... 163 5.2.2. Content analysis of ZIB .................................................................................................... 165 5.3. Outcomes .............................................................................................................................. 166 5.3.1 Demographics .................................................................................................................. 166 5.3.2 Language Matters ............................................................................................................ 168 5.3.3 Research Practices ........................................................................................................... 170 iii 5.3.4 Rankings and Community Allegiances ............................................................................. 183 5.3 Conclusions about IR in Germany ....................................................................................... 196 6. Discussion and Conclusions .................................................................................................. 199 6.1 Summary and synthesis of findings ....................................................................................... 199 6.2 Discussion of findings and implications ................................................................................. 203 6.3 Avenues for future research .................................................................................................. 208 Appendix ................................................................................................................................. 212 Bibliography ............................................................................................................................ 290 iv I. List of tables Table 1 Five dimensions of American dominance in IR according to Turton 2015 ........................ 12 Table 2 Example of variety as a property of diversity ........................................................................ 29 Table 3 Summary of the conceptual framework for the study of journal diversity ....................... 35