This compelling volume opens new avenues for research and encourages readers to explore the problems of modernity and granularity with an awareness of IR's positionality in the process and its implications. In this handbook, IR looks into the mirror of history to better understand itself.

International Affairs

Historical approaches to the study of world politics have always been a major part of the academic discipline of International Relations, and there has recently been a resurgence of scholarly interest in this area. This Oxford Handbook examines the past and present of the intersection between history and IR, and looks to the future by laying out new questions and directions for research. Seeking to transcend well-worn disciplinary debates between historians and IR scholars, the Handbook asks authors from both fields to engage with the central themes of 'modernity' and 'granularity'. Modernity is one of the basic organising categories of speculation about continuity and discontinuity in the history of world politics, but one that is increasingly questioned for privileging one kind of experience and marginalizing others. The theme of granularity highlights the importance of how decisions about the scale and scope of historical research in IR shape what can be seen, and how one sees it. Together, these themes provide points of affinity across the wide range of topics and approaches presented here. The Handbook is organized into four parts. The first, 'Readings', gives a state-of-the-art analysis of numerous aspects of the disciplinary encounter between historians and IR theorists. Thereafter, sections on 'Practices', 'Locales', and 'Moments' offer a wide variety of perspectives, from the longue durée to the ephemeral individual moment, and challenge many conventional ways of defining the contexts of historical enquiry about international relations. Contributors come from a range of academic backgrounds, and present a diverse array of methodological and philosophical ideas, as well as their various historical interests. The Oxford Handbooks of International Relations is a twelve-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and innovative engagements with the principal sub-fields of International Relations. The series as a whole is under the General Editorship of Christian Reus-Smit of the University of Queensland and Duncan Snidal of the University of Oxford, with each volume edited by specialists in the field. The series both surveys the broad terrain of International Relations scholarship and reshapes it, pushing each sub-field in challenging new directions. Following the example of Reus-Smit and Snidal's original Oxford Handbook of International Relations, each volume is organized around a strong central thematic by scholars drawn from different perspectives, reading its sub-field in an entirely new way, and pushing scholarship in challenging new directions.
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In this Handbook, historians and scholars of international relations examine the past and present of the intersection between History and IR, as well as looking to the future by laying out new questions and directions for research. The volume's four parts present a diverse array of methodological, philosophical, and historical insights.
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Part I. Introduction 1: Mlada Bukovansky and Edward Keene: Modernity and Granularity in History and International Relations Part II. Readings 2: R. B. J. Walker: Origins, Histories, and the Modern International 3: Michael C. Williams: Historical Realism 4: Lucian M. Ashworth: Liberal Progressivism and International History 5: Maïa Pal: Historical Sociology in International Relations 6: George Lawson and Jeppe Mulich: Global History and International Relations 7: Duncan Bell: International Relations and Intellectual History 8: Laura Sjoberg: Gender, History, and International Relations 9: Zeynep Gulsah Capan: Postcolonial Histories of International Relations 10: Peter Jackson and Talbot Imlay: International Relations Theory and the Practice of International History 11: Chen Yudan: Global Sources of International Thought Part III. Practices 12: Jordan Branch and Jan Stockbruegger: State, Territoriality, and Sovereignty 13: Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey: Diplomacy 14: Martin J. Bayly: Empire 15: Yongjin Zhang: Barbarism and Civilization 16: Nivi Manchanda: Race and Racism 17: Cecelia Lynch: Religion, History, and International Relations 18: Andrea Paras: Rights 19: A. Dirk Moses: The Diplomacy of Genocide 20: Tarak Barkawi: War and History in World Politics 21: James Mayall: Nationalism 22: Lauren Benton: Interpolity Law 23: Eric Helleiner: Regulating Commerce 24: Corinna R. Unger: Development 25: Kevin L. Young and Signe Predmore: Governing Finance 26: Eric Selbin: Revolution Part IV. Locales (Spatial, Temporal, Cultural) 27: Julia Costa Lopez: The 'Premodern' World 28: Ayse Zarakol: Modernity and Modernities in International Relations 29: Jacinta O'Hagan: The 'West' in International Relations 30: Daniel Gordon: The Eighteenth Century 31: Quentin Bruneau: The Long Nineteenth Century 32: John Anthony Pella, Jr.: The Pre-Colonial African State System 33: Michael Gobat: The 'Americas' in the History of International Relations 34: David C. Kang: 'Asia' in the History of International Relations 35: Or Rosenboim: The 'International' and the 'Global' in International History Part V. Moment 36: Jonathan Harris: The Fall of Constantinople 37: Andrew Phillips: The Peace of Westphalia 38: Karl W. Schweizer: The Seven Years War 39: Musab Younis: The Haitian Revolution 40: Jennifer Mitzen and Jeff Rogg: The Congress of Vienna 41: Daniel M. Green: The Revolutions of 1848 42: Alexander E. Davis: The Indian 'Mutiny' 43: Claire Vergerio: The Berlin and Hague Conferences 44: Duncan Kelly: World War One and Versailles 45: Megan Donaldson: Sykes-Picot 46: Daniel Gorman: World War Two and San Francisco 47: Christopher J. Lee: The Bandung Conference 48: Richard Ned Lebow and Benoît Pelopidas: Facing Nuclear War: Luck, Learning, and the Cuban Missile Crisis Part V. Conclusion 49: Maja Spanu and Christian Reus-Smit: History and the International: Time, Space, Agency, and Language
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Mlada Bukovansky is Professor of Government at Smith College, Northampton Massachusetts. Edward Keene is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and Official Student of Politics at Christ Church. Christian Reus-Smit is Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Maja Spanu is Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Head of Research and International Affairs, Fondation de France.
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Provides a rich interdisciplinary account of contemporary research on specific topics in historical international relations Features a wide range of methodological, theoretical, and historical approaches Combines traditional and critical perspectives, explaining and interrogating conventional ways of exploring the historical context in the field of international relations
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198873457
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
1462 gr
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
180 mm
Dybde
50 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
768

Biografisk notat

Mlada Bukovansky is Professor of Government at Smith College, Northampton Massachusetts. Edward Keene is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and Official Student of Politics at Christ Church. Christian Reus-Smit is Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Maja Spanu is Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Head of Research and International Affairs, Fondation de France.