This handbook presents a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview of the field of Historical International Relations (HIR). It summarizes and synthesizes existing contributions to the field while presenting central themes, approaches and methodologies that have driven the development of HIR, providing the reader with a sense of the diversity and research dynamics that are at the heart of this field of study.
Author(s): Benjamin de Carvalho, Julia Costa Lopez, Halvard Leira
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Historical International Relations
PART I: Traditions
2. Theories and philosophies of history in International Relations
3. The English School and Historical International Relations
4. World-Systems Analysis: Past trajectories and future prospects
5. Historical Sociology in International Relations: The challenge of the global
6. Liberalism between theory and practice
7. Realism: Excavating a historical tradition
8. Constructivism: History and systemic change
9. Poststructuralism and the challenge of history
10. International Political Thought and Historical International Relations
PART II: Thinking International Relations historically
11. Disciplinary traditions and debates: The subject matters ofinternational thought
12. War and the turn to history in International Relations
13. Capitalism and ‘the international’: A historical approach
14. Gender in Historical International Relations
15. Eurocentrism and civilization
16. Disciplinary histories of non-anglophone International Relations:Latin American and the Caribbean
17. Pre-modern Asia and International Relations theory
18. Race and Historical International Relations
19. Political theology and Historical International Relations
20. Time and history in International Relations
PART III: Actors, processes, and institutions
21. Sovereignty in Historical International Relations: Trajectories, challenges,and implications
22. State formation and Historical International Relations
23. Nations and nationalism in International Relations
24. States, people and self-determination in historical perspective
25. Borders and boundaries: Making visible what divides
26. Reason of state: An intellectual history
27. Balance of power: A key concept in historical perspective
28. Diplomacy: The world of states and beyond
29. Insurance, trade, and war
30. International law and the laws of war
31. International organisations in historical perspective
32. Revolutions: Integrating the international
33. Imperialism: Beyond the ‘re-turn to empire’ in International Relations
34. Decolonisation and the erosion of the imperial idea
35. Understanding the postcolonial cold war
PART IV: Situating Historical IR
36. Ancient Greece: War, peace and diplomacy in antiquity
37. Rome: Republic, monarchy and empire
38. International Relations in/and the Middle Ages
39. Early (modern) empires: The political ideology of conceptual domination
40. Europe in Historical International Relations
41. Africa and international history
42. International order in East Asia
43. Linking up the Ottoman Empire with IR’s timeline
44. Latin America: Between liminality and agency in HistoricalInternational Relations
PART V: Approaches
45. International Relations in the archive: Uses of sources and historiography
46. History and memory: Narratives, micropolitics, and crises
47. How to do the history of international thought?
48. Global histories: Connections and circulations in Historical International Relations
49. Historical practices: Recovering a Durkheimian tradition
50. Quantitative approaches: Towards comparative and trans-regionalapproaches in Historical International Relations
51. Conceptual history in International Relations: From ideologyto social theory?
52. Historical periods and the act of periodisation
PART VI: Afterword
53. Afterword: Ahead to the past
Index
