Inside/outside: international relations as political theory/ R.B.J. Walker
Material type: TextSeries: (Cambridge studies in international relations) ; 24Publication details: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995Description: xii, 233 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780521364232Subject(s): International relations | Political scienceDDC classification: 327.101Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 327.101 WAL/I (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P02178 |
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.
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