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Subordinate Disobedience in Hierarchical International Orders: evidence from U.S.-Brazil relations

by Reimagining World Order

Lecture Global/Intercultural

Wed, Nov 6, 2024

4:30 PM – 6 PM EST (GMT-5)

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Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71

Princeton, NJ 08544,

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How and why do hegemonic attempts to promote junior partner compliance sometimes inadvertently provoke defiance in hierarchical international orders? I explore this question by considering why Brazil deliberately defied the United States over the question of Zionism in the UN General Assembly in 1975. The case shows how subjective, affectively laden values—like pride, dignity, and honor—can push junior partners in hierarchical orders to defy their superordinates. The argument has direct relevance to today as the US struggles to cultivate compliance amongst its partners on thorny issues like the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

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Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71

Princeton, NJ 08544,

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John de Bhal

Post doctoral research associate

Princeton University


John de Bhal is a postdoctoral research associate in the Reimagining World Order (RWO) research community. As part of the RWO, de Bhal helps organize the annual conference, co-hosts the community’s eponymous podcast, and will be one of the co-instructors for the “Theories of International Order” seminar offered in spring semester.



His research examines how weaker actors shape, modify and transform the constitutive categories that structure international orders. His work draws on a range of emblematic historical case studies to theorize the specific strategies weaker actors use to alter international orders — and their constitutive categories — in ways that are congenial to their goals. His broader research interests sit at the intersection of international relations (IR) theory, historical IR and the evolution of modern international order.



de Bhal is currently working on a book manuscript based on his doctoral thesis. Originally from Brisbane, Australia, he completed his graduate studies at the University of Oxford.



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John Ikenberry

Director

Reimaging World Order

G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.  He is also Co-Director of Princeton’s Center for International Security Studies. Ikenberry is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. In 2018-19, Ikenberry was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. In 2013-2014 Ikenberry was the 72nd Eastman Visiting Professor at Balliol College, Oxford. Ikenberry is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In a recent survey of international relations scholars, Ikenberry was ranked in the top 10 in scholars who have produced the best work in the field of IR in the past 20 years, and ranked in the top 8 in scholars who have produced the most interesting work in the past 5 years.



Professor Ikenberry is the author of eight books, mostly recently A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order (Yale 2020), and  Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American System (Princeton, 2011). His book, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (Princeton, 2001), won the 2002 Schroeder-Jervis Award presented by the American Political Science Association for the best book in international history and politics. A collection of his essays, entitled Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition: American Power and International Order (Policy) appeared in 2006. Ikenberry is also co-author of Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the 21st Century (Princeton 2009), which explores the Wilsonian legacy in contemporary American foreign policy. Ikenberry has also the editor or co-editor of fourteen books, including America Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power (Cornell, 2002), The End of the West? Crisis and Change in Atlantic Order (Cornell 2008) and Unipolarity and International Relations Theory (Cambridge, 2011).  Ikenberry has authored 130 journal articles, essays, and book chapters.



Professor Ikenberry is the co-director of the Princeton Project on National Security, and he is the co-author, along with Anne-Marie Slaughter, of the final report, Forging a World of Liberty Under Law.  Among his many activities, Professor Ikenberry served as a member of the Policy Planning Staff in 1991-92, as a member of an advisory group at the State Department in 2003-04, and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on U.S.-European relations, the so-called Kissinger-Summers commission. He is also a reviewer of books on political and legal affairs for Foreign Affairs.

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