Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
1. International relations as political theory. The historical moment. Historicity, spatiality and the theory of international relations. Horizons of modern political theory. Meditations on the disciplinary practices of a discipline -- 2. The Prince and 'the pauper'. The politics of origins. The tradition of international relations theory: three variations. Machiavelli and political community. Machiavelli and temporality. Machiavelli and the politics of displacement. Thinking with and against Machiavelli. From origins to disjunctions -- 3. Ethics, modernity, community. At the intersection. Temporality and the dialectics of enlightenment. Spatiality, sovereignty and the ethics of exclusion. The society of states and the ethics of cooperation. Sovereignty, modernity and political community -- 4. History, structure, reification. Beyond hegemony, before epistemology. Historical departures. Structural proliferations. From international relations to world politics -- 5. Realism and change. Political realism and political realisms. Realisms, histories, structures. Structuralism and neorealism. The ambivalences of historicism -- 6. The territorial state and the theme of Gulliver. States and spaces. Spaces and hierarchies. Oscillations and continuities -- 7. On the spatio-temporal conditions of democratic practice. Cosmopolitan charm and cultivated cynicism. Democracy and political community. Affirming and challenging state sovereignty -- 8. Sovereign identities and the politics of forgetting. Sovereignty and repetition. Sovereignty and historicity. Sovereignty from the inside. Sovereignty from the outside. Sovereignty deferred. Sovereignty, identity, difference. Rearticulations of political space/time
0
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"In this book Rob Walker offers an original analysis of the relationship between twentieth-century theories of international relations, and the political theory of civil society since the early modern period. He views theories of international relations both as an ideological expression of the modern state, and as a clear indication of the difficulties of thinking about a world politics characterized by profound spatiotemporal accelerations. International relations theories should be seen, the author argues, more as aspects of contemporary world politics than as explanations of contemporary world politics. These theories are examined in the light of recent debates about modernity and post-modernity, sovereignty and political identity, and the limits of modern social and political theory." "This book is a major contribution to the field of critical international relations, and will be of interest to social and political theorists and political scientists, as well as students and scholars of international relations. Book jacket."--Jacket