Inside/Outside: International Relations as Political TheoryIn 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. |
Contents
International relations as political theory | 1 |
Historicity spatiality and the theory of international relations | 6 |
Horizons of modern political theory | 15 |
Meditations on the disciplinary practices of a discipline | 21 |
The Prince and the pauper | 26 |
three variations | 31 |
Machiavelli and political community | 34 |
Machiavelli and temporality | 38 |
Realisms histories structures | 113 |
Structuralism and neorealism | 115 |
The ambivalences of historicism | 121 |
The territorial state and the theme of Gulliver | 125 |
Spaces and hierarchies | 130 |
Oscillations and continuities | 135 |
On the spatiotemporal conditions of democratic practice | 141 |
Democracy and political community | 144 |
Machiavelli and the politics of displacement | 41 |
Thinking with and against Machiavelli | 43 |
From origins to disjunctions | 47 |
Ethics modernity community | 50 |
Temporality and the dialectics of enlightenment | 52 |
Spatiality sovereignty and the ethics of exclusion | 60 |
The society of states and the ethics of cooperation | 67 |
Sovereignty modernity and political community | 74 |
History structure reification | 81 |
Historical departures | 88 |
Structural proliferations | 92 |
From international relations to world politics | 99 |
Realism and change | 104 |
Affirming and challenging state sovereignty | 153 |
Sovereign identities and the politics of forgetting | 159 |
Sovereignty and historicity | 162 |
Sovereignty from the inside | 169 |
Sovereignty from the outside | 171 |
Sovereignty deferred | 174 |
Sovereignty identity difference | 176 |
Rearticulations of political spacetime | 179 |
Notes | 184 |
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