Leonard Seabrooke at the PPE Colloquium

PPE lecture series: Leonard Seabrooke, Getting Action in World Politics

In Getting Action in World Politics Seabrooke details how action in world politics centers around forms of getting noticed (projection), knowing how to play the game (interaction), and defending status and resources (protection). Seabrooke links micro-level behavior to macro-level institutions in world politics. Projection includes finding ways to mobilize attention and voice. Interaction is concerned with knowing how to read the room and conform or challenge. Protection centers on tipping the scales in a particular direction while also searching for potential threats. These actions are conditioned by different social spaces that can be analyzed as fields, networks, or ecologies. Drawing on two decades of research, Seabrooke shows how actors get action across a range of examples: from environmental standards to economic policy training networks to asylum consultancies and many others.