
International Relations Theory Today
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With chapters by 25 prominent and provocative IR theorists, the book reveals the intellectual excitement - and turmoil - of theorizing world politics. It reflects the conflicts and tensions around the profound challenges facing the contemporary world, such as climate change, globalization, nuclear proliferation, and economic and political injustice and conflict, while also expressing hope that we can better understand, and respond to, these challenges.
Above all, this book demonstrates the significance of thinking theoretically about international relations and developing the tools not merely to describe but also to explain, analyse, prescribe and possibly re-imagine the global political landscape. As the world comes face-to-face with historic challenges over the coming decades, International Relations Theory Today will help its readers to participate more effectively in debates about the most important global political dilemmas of our time.
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Toni Erskine is Professor of International Politics at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Content
Preface
Contributors
List of Figures
INTRODUCTION: THE ARGUMENTATIVE DISCIPLINE
Ken Booth and Toni Erskine
PART I: CONTESTATIONS
1. FIVE GENERATIONS OF IR THEORY
Nicholas Onuf
2. THEORY AND PRACTICE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Chris Brown
3. IR THEORY AS IDENTITY DISCOURSES Richard Ned Lebow
4. IR THEORY AND THE QUESTION OF SCIENCE
Inanna Hamati-Ataya
5. IR THEORY AS AN ETHICAL PURSUIT
Molly Cochran
6. DO IR SCHOLARS ENGAGE WITH THE SAME WORLD?
Pinar Bilgin
7. 'IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID...'
Craig Murphy
PART II: THEORIES AND ISSUES
8. THE FUTURE OF WAR AS THE ULTIMA RATIO
William Wohlforth
9. THE NUCLEAR REVOLUTION AS THEORY
Campbell Craig
10. CARMEN MIRANDA RETURNS
Cynthia Enloe
11. GLOBAL CAPITALISM, INEQUALITY, AND POVERTY
David Blaney and Naeem Inayatullah
12. 'CIVILISED' RESTRAINT AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY
Andrew Linklater
13. DEMOCRACY IN A GLOBALISED WORLD
Heikki Patomäki
14. PROTEST AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE INFORMATION AGE
Colin Wight
15. GLOBAL GOVERNANCE BEYOND IR?
Thomas Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson
16. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
Oran Young
PART III: THEORIZING IR TOMORROW
17. THE FUTURE FROM INSIDE THE LIBERAL WORLD ORDER
Jennifer Sterling-Folker
18. MUST IR REMAIN ABSTRACT IN THE FUTURE?
Christine Sylvester
19. STUDYING WORLD POLITICS AS A COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEM
Neta C. Crawford
20. A NEO-HOBBESIAN FUTURE?
Michael C. Williams
21. THE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 2157 (TWO EXCERPTS)
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
CONCLUSION: RESPONSIBILITY AND THE ARGUMENTATIVE DISCIPLINE
Ken Booth and Toni Erskine
References
Index
Contributors
Pinar Bilgin is Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University. She specialises in critical approaches to Security Studies and is the author of Regional Security in the Middle East: A Critical Perspective (2005) and The International in Security, Security in the International (2016). She is past president of the Central and East European International Studies Association, a past member of the steering committee of the Standing Group on International Relations of the European Consortium for Political Research, a governing council member of the European International Studies Association, an associate member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences, and associate editor of International Political Sociology.
David L. Blaney holds the G. Theodore Mitau Chair of Political Science, Macalester College, St Paul, Minnesota. His research revolves around international political theory, culture and IR and IPE, and political economic thought. With Naeem Inayatullah, he has written International Relations and the Problem of Difference (2004) and Savage Economics: Wealth, Poverty and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism (2010), and, with Arlene Tickner, he has edited Thinking International Relations Differently (2012) and Claiming the International (2013). He is now working on theodicy and political economic thought from Smith to neo-classical economics and contemporary IPE.
Ken Booth was formerly E. H. Carr Professor and head of the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. He is presently senior research associate, editor of International Relations, and president of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies. He is a former chair of the British International Studies Association. His publications include Strategy and Ethnocentrism (1979), Theory of World Security (2007), and The Security Dilemma: Fear, Cooperation and Trust in World Politics (2008, with Nicholas J. Wheeler). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a recipient of the International Studies Association's Susan Strange Award.
Chris Brown is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and the author of International Society, Global Polity (2015), Practical Judgement in International Political Theory (2010), Sovereignty, Rights and Justice (2002), and International Relations Theory: New Normative Approaches (1992), editor of Political Restructuring in Europe: Ethical Perspectives (1994), and co-editor of International Relations in Political Thought (2002, with Terry Nardin and N. J. Rengger). His textbook Understanding International Relations (2009) is now in its fourth and final edition and has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, and Turkish. He is a former chair of the British International Studies Association.
Molly Cochran is Reader in International Relations at Oxford Brookes University. She previously taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology and held a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship (2002-3), working at Human Rights Watch on international criminal justice issues. Her research interests are normative International Relations theory and American pragmatism. Her publications include Normative Theory in International Relations: A Pragmatic Approach (1999), The Cambridge Companion to John Dewey (2010), 'Charting the ethics of the English School', in International Studies Quarterly (2009), and 'A democratic critique of cosmopolitan democracy', in the European Journal of International Relations (2002).
Campbell Craig is Professor of International Politics at Cardiff University. His main research interests are nuclear and Cold War history and contemporary International Relations theory. Over the past several years he has been Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University and visiting fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the European University Institute, and Bristol University. His most recent book, co-authored with Fredrik Logevall, is America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity (2009), and he is currently writing with Jan Ruzicka, a book on nuclear proliferation and US unipolar preponderance to be published by Cornell University Press.
Neta C. Crawford is a Professor of Political Science at Boston University. Her books include Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention (2002) and Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post 9/11 Wars (2013). She is the co-director of the project www.costsofwar.org.
Cynthia Enloe is Research Professor at Clark University, Massachusetts. She currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the International Feminist Journal of Politics, Security Dialogue, and International Political Sociology. Among her recent books are Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered (2013), and Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War (2010). In 2014 she published a revised, thoroughly updated new edition of Bananas, Beaches and Bases.
Toni Erskine is Professor of International Politics and Associate Director of the Australian Centre for Cyber Security at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She has been on the Governing Council (2008-10; 2014-16) and the Executive Committee (2014-15) of the International Studies Association and is past president of its International Ethics section (2008-10). Until 2013 she was Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Her publications include Embedded Cosmopolitanism (2008) and, as editor, Can Institutions Have Responsibilities? (2003) and, with Richard Ned Lebow, Tragedy and International Relations (2012). She is currently completing a manuscript entitled Locating Responsibility: Institutional Moral Agency and International Relations.
Inanna Hamati-Ataya is Reader in International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Her research lies at the intersection of world politics, social theory, the sociology of knowledge, and science studies. She is co-editor, with Arlene Tickner, David Blaney, and Ole Wæver of the Worlding beyond the West book series (Routledge) and co-editor, with Jonathan Joseph, of the IR Theory section of the International Studies Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell). She is a trustee of the British International Studies Association, chair of the International Political Sociology Section of the International Studies Association, and a member of the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective.
Naeem Inayatullah is Professor of Politics at Ithaca College, New York. His work locates the Third World in international relations and the global political economy. With David Blaney, he is the co-author of Savage Economics (2010) and International Relations and the Problem of Difference (2004). He is the editor of Autobiographical International Relations (2011) and co-editor of Interrogating Imperialism (2006) and The Global Economy as Political Space (1994). Forthcoming work includes 'Gigging on the world stage: bossa nova and Afrobeat after de-reification' and 'A problem with levels: engaging a diverse IPE' (both in Contexto Internacional) and, co-edited with Elizabeth Dauphinee, Narrative Global Politics.
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is Professor of International Relations and Associate Dean for Curriculum and Learning in the School of International Service at the American University in Washington, DC. In 2003-4, and again in 2012-13, he served as president of the International Studies Association Northeast. He is presently the series editor of the University of Michigan Press's book series Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics and a web editor for International Studies Quarterly. His latest book, The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations (2011), received the Yale H. Ferguson Award for the book most advancing international studies as a pluralist field.
Richard Ned Lebow is Professor of International Political Theory in the War Studies Department of King's College London, Bye-Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, and the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor (Emeritus) of Government at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. His most recent publications, all of which appeared in 2014, are Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives: A World without World War I, Constructing Cause in International Relations, and, co-authored with Simon Reich, Goodbye Hegemony! Rethinking America's Role in the World. Books are forthcoming on national identifications and foreign policy and Max Weber and international relations.
Andrew Linklater is Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. He has published extensively on theories of international relations and has in recent years explored connections between Sociology and International Relations as part of an examination of harm in world politics. His most recent book is The Problem of Harm in World Politics: Theoretical Investigations (2011). A follow-up volume, Violence and Civilization in the Western States-Systems, will be published in 2016. Linklater is currently writing a book which is provisionally entitled The...
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