Political science emerged as a response to the challenges of imperial administration and the
demands of colonial rule. While not all political scientists were colonial cheerleaders, their …

The fourth edition of this innovative textbook introduces students to the main theories in
international relations. It explains and analyzes each theory, allowing students to …

“As Michel Foucault has famously stated,'knowledge is not made for understanding; it is
made for cutting'. In this spirit The Edkins–Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits …

Hybrid forms of peace represent a juxtaposition between international norms and interests
and local forms of agency and identity. A first stage may be tense forms of hybrid politics that …

The problem of “foundations” is a crucial one for any field, particularly perhaps one with as
varied a possible repertoire of elementary sources as the study of world politics. In this …

Social Theory and Postcommunism undertakes a thorough study of the implications of post-
communism for sociological theory. Written by two leading social theorists, the book …

This article investigates the limits of postcolonial International Relations' anti-Eurocentrism
through an interrogation of its ambivalent relation with the category of 'the universal.'It …

IR's dominant theoretical and methodological approaches are, to varying degrees,
compliance oriented. IR needs a theory of resistance if it is to survive its current …

In the course of his ethnographic study of the Ndembu tribes, the renowned anthropologist
Victor Turner focused on the elaborate rituals that marked various phases of social …

IR's turn towards historical sociology is yet to overcome its ahistoricism. This lack of world-
historical perspective, particularly conspicuous in relation to the non-European world, and …