Peer-Reviewed Articles
Christopher Peys & Brent J. Steele, “Restraint in International Politics: A Conversation between Brent Steele and Christopher Peys,” Contemporary Voices: St Andrews Journal of International Relations (CVIR). 29 April 2021.
Abstract: Taking into account the turbulent socio-political events of the first half of 2020, this discussion piece evaluates the theory of restraint presented in Brent Steele’s 2019 book, Restraint in International Politics. A conversation between Steele and Christopher Peys about the ‘politics of restraint’, this article examines the socio-psychological ‘complexes’ of actionism and restraint, and addresses a series of queries about both the limitations and possibilities of restraint, before examining Steele’s theory in the emerging context of our world’s recent race-related events, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the international community’s inability to confront the threat of widespread, human-induced environmental degradation.
