Narrating events and imputing those responsible: Reflexivity and the temporal basis of retrospective responsibility
Journal: Review of International Studies
Year: 2018

Abstract By showing how a number of temporal assumptions shape three mutually exclusive narratives, the article argues for a mediated and reflexive understanding of events, one that is more open and less likely to fall into the pitfalls of a confrontation between different versions of retrospective responsibility. The article begins by looking beyond the agency and structure debate and into the temporal dimension of narrative, mainly for the sake of understanding the relationship between continu