Inside/outside: international relations as political theory/
R.B.J. Walker
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- xii, 233 p. ; 24 cm.
- (Cambridge studies in international relations), 24 .
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.