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View article: Forum on Charlotte Epstein’s <i>Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics</i>
Forum on Charlotte Epstein’s <i>Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics</i> Open
In this forum, four authors discuss Charlotte Epstein’s book Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics published in 2021. After having situated this book in a wider context of international and political thought…
View article: Forum on Heikki Patomäki’s <i>World Statehood: The Future of World Politics</i>
Forum on Heikki Patomäki’s <i>World Statehood: The Future of World Politics</i> Open
In this forum, six scholars discuss Heikki Patomäki’s book World Statehood: The Future of World Politics, published in 2023. The editor’s introduction situates it in the discursive contexts of cosmopolitanism, deep history and functional d…
View article: Cosmologies of conquest: The Renaissance foundations of modern international thought
Cosmologies of conquest: The Renaissance foundations of modern international thought Open
This paper seeks to reconstruct the worldview informing Iberian overseas expansion during the long sixteenth century, arguing that this worldview was more indebted to Renaissance cosmology than to a recognisably modern scientific worldview…
View article: War, States, and International Order: Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War. By Claire Vergerio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 320p. $99.99 cloth.
War, States, and International Order: Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War. By Claire Vergerio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 320p. $99.99 cloth. Open
War, States, and International Order: Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War. By Claire Vergerio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 320p. $99.99 cloth. - Volume 21 Issue 2
View article: Competition in World Politics
Competition in World Politics Open
The »return of great power competition« between (among others) the US, China, Russia and the EU is a major topic in contemporary public debate. But why do we think of world politics in terms of »competition«? Which information and which ru…
View article: Forum: In the Beginning There was No Word (for it): Terms, Concepts, and Early Sovereignty
Forum: In the Beginning There was No Word (for it): Terms, Concepts, and Early Sovereignty Open
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the concept sovereignty for international relations (IR). And yet, understanding the historical emergence of sovereignty in international relations has long been curtailed by the all-encompass…
View article: Introduction: de-centering state making
Introduction: de-centering state making Open
This introduction outlines the main problem areas addressed by this volume. In academic international relations, comparative politics and historical sociology, the study of state making has traditionally been focused on the emergence of st…
View article: That Brutal Uncivilizer of Nations
That Brutal Uncivilizer of Nations Open
Civil Wars: A History in Ideas by David Armitage is a pioneering inquiry into the intellectual history of the concept of civil war from the Romans to the present day. It makes a great point in showing how civil war has been redefined for d…
View article: Blasts from the Past: War and Fracture in the International System
Blasts from the Past: War and Fracture in the International System Open
This article is a brief inquiry into the changing meaning of war in Western political thought, with special reference to its role in fracturing the contemporary international system. I argue that contemporary debates about the changing nat…
View article: Recognition: A Short History
Recognition: A Short History Open
During the past decade there has been a resurgence of interest in the concept of recognition in international theory. Once the narrow concern of social theorists, the concept of recognition is nowadays invoked in at least three different s…
View article: The Language of Law and the Laws of Language
The Language of Law and the Laws of Language Open
The Status of Law in World Society by Friedrich Kratochwil is a sophisticated attempt to reassert the importance of international law in a globalised world by grounding it in the actual practices of legal reasoning. Yet this attempt to gro…