Professor Gearoid Millar has published a new article entitled 'Responding to “The Greats”: A Problematic Lack of Tension', in Civil Wars.
Reflecting on Oliver P. Richmond's articles, 'On the ‘greats’ and peace: part one: towards an international peace architecture' (2023) and 'On the ‘greats’ and peace: part two: the internal and external challenges to the embryonic international peace architecture in modernity' (2023), Professor Millar highlights the limitations of the two pieces.
Some of the most obvious problems are related to the format of the work, as genealogy, and the necessary choices and exclusions that this entails.
Centring on two challenges, the response article draws attention to the ways that Richmond's articles present 'almost wholly' the ideas of white European men, as well as a lack of inconsistency in his ideas about how International Peace Architecture was constructed.
As an alternative, Professor Millar proposes a deeper interdisciplinary engagement with Peace and Conflict studies, rather than a reliance on International Relations theory alone.
To read the full article, visit Civil Wars, here.