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100	1		_aKUSTERMANS Jorg
700			_aSVENSSON Ted
700			_aLOPEZ Julia Costa
700			_aBLASENHEIM Tracey
700			_aHOFFMANN Alvina
245			_aRitual and authority in world politics/ _cJorg Kustermans, Ted Svensson, Julia Costa López, Tracey Blasenheim & Alvina Hoffmann
260			_c2022
520			_aThe contributions to this Forum on Ritual and Authority in World Politics examine the role that ritual performances play in the constitution of positions of authority and the maintenance of relations of authority in historical and contemporary international relations. The Forum takes as its point of departure three related observations: (i) that recent years have witnessed a remarkable upsurge of interest in ritual as a recurring feature of international practice, but (ii) that this recent interest in ritual has not extended, thus far, to the study of international authority, (iii) in spite of political anthropologists' long-standing claim that the performance of ritual is absolutely crucial to the production of authority. The performance of ritual grounds, makes tangible and enhances various forms of authority, including forms of international authority, historical and contemporary. The contributions to this Forum demonstrate the veracity of that claim in five different empirical contexts-Byzantine diplomacy, early modern cross-cultural encounters, British imperialism in India, military lawyering in America's armed forces, and the casting of ballots in Crimea and the US-and attempt also to explain precisely how it is that ritual served to undergird and stabilise authority in these various instances.
650			_aPOLITICS
650			_aINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
650			_aINTERNATIONAL THEORY
773			_aCambridge Review of International Affairs: _gVol.35, No.1, February 2022, pp.2-30 (93)
598			_aPOLITICS, DIPLOMACY
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2021.1975647 _zClick here for full text
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