Memory-political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion
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Memory-political Deterrence : Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion. / Gustafsson, Karl; Mälksoo, Maria.
I: International Studies Quarterly, Bind 68, Nr. 1, sqae006, 2024.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Memory-political Deterrence
T2 - Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion
AU - Gustafsson, Karl
AU - Mälksoo, Maria
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Traditionally used within the context of hard military power in interstate relations, the concept of deterrence has been progressively extended to non-state actors and new issue areas. While scholarship on the social aspects of deterrence has expanded our understanding of this core international security practice, the focus of existing research has largely remained on physical security. This article argues that there is a phenomenon in international politics that can be called memory-political deterrence. Memory-political deterrence refers to the ways in which states seek to dissuade other political actors from taking actions that threaten the collective memory narratives that underpin the ontological security of the deterring actor. Memory-political deterrence works, for example, through political rhetoric, declarations, diplomatic insults, commemorative practices, and punitive memory laws. We illustrate the article’s arguments through empirical examples from Russia’s and China’s recent memory-political deterrence efforts toward Ukraine and Japan, respectively. In doing so, we elucidate the ways in which memory politics is intertwined with geopolitics, underpinning wider world-ordering aspirations.
AB - Traditionally used within the context of hard military power in interstate relations, the concept of deterrence has been progressively extended to non-state actors and new issue areas. While scholarship on the social aspects of deterrence has expanded our understanding of this core international security practice, the focus of existing research has largely remained on physical security. This article argues that there is a phenomenon in international politics that can be called memory-political deterrence. Memory-political deterrence refers to the ways in which states seek to dissuade other political actors from taking actions that threaten the collective memory narratives that underpin the ontological security of the deterring actor. Memory-political deterrence works, for example, through political rhetoric, declarations, diplomatic insults, commemorative practices, and punitive memory laws. We illustrate the article’s arguments through empirical examples from Russia’s and China’s recent memory-political deterrence efforts toward Ukraine and Japan, respectively. In doing so, we elucidate the ways in which memory politics is intertwined with geopolitics, underpinning wider world-ordering aspirations.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - deterrence
KW - memory politics
KW - ontological security
KW - Russia
KW - China
U2 - 10.1093/isq/sqae006
DO - 10.1093/isq/sqae006
M3 - Journal article
VL - 68
JO - International Studies Quarterly
JF - International Studies Quarterly
SN - 0020-8833
IS - 1
M1 - sqae006
ER -
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