The Routledge handbook of historical international relations

This handbook presents a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview of the field of Historical International Relations (HIR). It summarizes and synthesizes existing contributions to the field while presenting central themes, approaches and methodologies that have driven the development of HIR, providing the reader with a sense of the diversity and research dynamics that are at the heart of this field of study. The wide range of topics covered are grouped under the following headings: * Traditions: Demonstrates the wide variety of approaches to HIR. * Thinking International Relations Historically: Different ways of thinking IR historically share some common concerns and areas for further investigation. * Actors, Processes and Institutions: Explores the processes, actors, practices, and institutions that constitute the core objects of study of many HIR scholars. * Situating Historical International Relations: Critically reflects about the situatedness of our objects of study. * Approaches: Examines how HIR scholars conduct and reflect about their research, often in dialogue with a variety of perspectives from cognate disciplines. Summarizing key contributions and trends while also sketching out challenges for future inquiry, this is an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers from a range of disciplines, particularly International Relations, global history, political science, history, sociology, anthropology, peace studies, diplomatic studies, security studies, international political thought, political geography, international law. This handbook presents a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview of the field of Historical International Relations (HIR). It summarizes existing contributions and central themes, approaches and methodologies that have driven the development of HIR, providing a sense of the diversity and research dynamics in the field. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 List of contributors 11 Preface and acknowledgements 20 1. Introduction: Historical International Relations 22 PART I: Traditions 36 2. Theories and philosophies of history in International Relations 38 3. The English School and Historical International Relations 48 4. World-Systems Analysis: Past trajectories and future prospects 58 5. Historical Sociology in International Relations: The challenge of the global 68 6. Liberalism between theory and practice 80 7. Realism: Excavating a historical tradition 92 8. Constructivism: History and systemic change 101 9. Poststructuralism and the challenge of history 111 10. International Political Thought and Historical International Relations 120 PART II: Thinking International Relations historically 132 11. Disciplinary traditions and debates: The subject matters ofinternational thought 134 12. War and the turn to history in International Relations 148 13. Capitalism and ‘the international’: A historical approach 159 14. Gender in Historical International Relations 174 15. Eurocentrism and civilization 183 16. Disciplinary histories of non-anglophone International Relations:Latin American and the Caribbean 192 17. Pre-modern Asia and International Relations theory 202 18. Race and Historical International Relations 213 19. Political theology and Historical International Relations 222 20. Time and history in International Relations 231 PART III: Actors, processes, and institutions 240 21. Sovereignty in Historical International Relations: Trajectories, challenges,and implications 242 22. State formation and Historical International Relations 252 23. Nations and nationalism in International Relations 265 24. States, people and self-determination in historical perspective 274 25. Borders and boundaries: Making visible what divides 288 26. Reason of state: An intellectual history 298 27. Balance of power: A key concept in historical perspective 310 28. Diplomacy: The world of states and beyond 323 29. Insurance, trade, and war 332 30. International law and the laws of war 342 31. International organisations in historical perspective 351 32. Revolutions: Integrating the international 362 33. Imperialism: Beyond the ‘re-turn to empire’ in International Relations 376 34. Decolonisation and the erosion of the imperial idea 389 35. Understanding the postcolonial cold war 400 PART IV: Situating Historical IR 408 36. Ancient Greece: War, peace and diplomacy in antiquity 410 37. Rome: Republic, monarchy and empire 419 38. International Relations in/and the Middle Ages 429 39. Early (modern) empires: The political ideology of conceptual domination 440 40. Europe in Historical International Relations 453 41. Africa and international history 462 42. International order in East Asia 475 43. Linking up the Ottoman Empire with IR’s timeline 485 44. Latin America: Between liminality and agency in HistoricalInternational Relations 498 PART V: Approaches 508 45. International Relations in the archive: Uses of sources and historiography 510 46. History and memory: Narratives, micropolitics, and crises 524 47. How to do the history of international thought? 533 48. Global histories: Connections and circulations in Historical International Relations 542 49. Historical practices: Recovering a Durkheimian tradition 551 50. Quantitative approaches: Towards comparative and trans-regionalapproaches in Historical International Relations 561 51. Conceptual history in International Relations: From ideologyto social theory? 572 52. Historical periods and the act of periodisation 583 PART VI: Afterword 592 53. Afterword: Ahead to the past 594 Index 604 Historical,International,Relations;,Theories,and,philosophies;,World-Systems,Analysis;,Sociology,in,International,Relations;,Liberalism;,Excavating,a,historical,tradition;,Constructivism;,Poststructuralism;,Disciplinary,traditions;,War,and,the,turn;,Eurocentrism;,Non-anglophone,International,Relations;,State,formation;,Self-determination;,Borders,and,boundaries;,Balance,of,power;,Diplomacy;,Insurance;,trade;,and,war;,Ancient,Greece;,Rome;,Early,(modern),empires;,Ottoman,Empire;,Latin,America;,Global,histories;,Durkheimian,tradition;,Historical,practices;,Quantitative,approaches Historical International Relations,Theories and philosophies,World-Systems Analysis,Sociology in International Relations,Liberalism,Excavating a historical tradition,Constructivism,Poststructuralism,Disciplinary traditions,War and the turn,Eurocentrism,Non-anglophone International Relations,State formation,Self-determination,Borders and boundaries,Balance of power,Diplomacy,Insurance,trade,and war,Ancient Greece,Rome,Early (modern) empires,Ottoman Empire,Latin America,Global histories,Durkheimian tradition,Historical practices,Quantitative approaches "This handbook presents a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview of the field of Historical International Relations (HIR). It summarizes and synthesizes existing contributions to the field while presenting central themes, approaches and methodologies that have driven the development of HIR, providing the reader with a sense of the diversity and research dynamics that are at the heart of this field of study. The wide range of topics covered are grouped under the following headings: Traditions: Demonstrates the wide variety of approaches to HIR. Thinking International Relations Historically: Different ways of thinking IR historically share some common concerns and areas for further investigation. Actors, Processes and Institutions: Explores the processes, actors, practices, and institutions that constitute the core objects of study of many HIR scholars. Situating Historical International Relations: Critically reflects about the situatedness of our objects of study. Approaches: Examines how HIR scholars conduct and reflect about their research, often in dialogue with a variety of perspectives from cognate disciplines"-- Provided by publisher