The Sage handbook of the history philosophy and sociology of international relations 1st edition by Sage Publications 1526415607 9781526415608

Part I The Inward Gaze: Introductory Reflections

1 The Struggle for the Soul of International Relations: Fragments of a Collective Journey

2 Crafting the Reflexive Gaze: Knowledge of Knowledge in the Social Worlds of International Relations

Part II Imagining the International, Acknowledging the Global

3 From the International to the Global?

4 Coloring the Global: Race, Colonialism and Internationalism1

5 Liberal International Political Economy as Colonial Science

6 International Relations as a Historical Social Science

7 International Relations and the Gendered International

8 Beyond the ‘Religious Turn’: International Relations as Political Theology

9 Between ‘East’ and ‘West’: Travelling Theories, Travelling Imaginations

10 International Relations and the Rise of Asia: A New ‘Moral Imagination’ for World Politics?

11 Confucian Pacifism or Confucian Confusion?1

12 The Challenges of ‘Contextualism’

13 Imagining International Relations Through Alternative Worlds

Part III The Search for (an) Identity

14 The Origins of International Relations: Idealists, Administrators and the Institutionalization of a New Science

15 ‘Canon’ Fodder: The Founding Fathers, Classics and ‘isms’ of International Relations

16 The Function of Myths in International Relations: Discipline and Identity

17 Identity and Theory: Towards Sociological Explanations of ‘Schools’ in International Relations1

18 International Relations’ Crystal Ball: Prediction and Forecasting1

19 The Problem of Social Utility: International Relations and the ‘Policy Gap’

20 A Fear of Foundations?

21 After First Principles: The Sociological Turn in International Relations as Disciplinary Crisis

22 International Relations and the Challenges of Interdisciplinarity

23 ‘Does It Matter if It’s a Discipline?’ Bawled the Child

Part IV International Relations as a Profession

24 The Unequal Profession

25 From Community to Practice: International Relations as a Practical Configuration

26 Rule by Referees? The Curious World of Academic Judgment

27 International Relations Expertise at the Interstices of Fields and Assemblages

28 International Relations Ideas as Reflections and Weapons of US Foreign Policy

29 For an Undisciplined Take on International Relations: The Politics of Situated Scholarship

30 Counter-Mapping the Discipline: The Archipelago of Western International Relations Teaching*

31 E pluribus unum? How Textbooks Cover Theories

32 International Pedagogical Relations in Fragments: Politics and Poetics in the Classroom and Beyond

33 Training in Critical Interpretivism, Within and Beyond the Academy

34 The Dialectic of Politics and Science from a Post-Truth Standpoint: An Outsider’s Perspective on the Field of International Relations

35 What We Do: International Relations as Craft

Part V Looking Ahead: The Future of Meta-Analysis

36 A Historiographer’s View: Rewriting the History of International Thought

37 Meta-analysis: A Philosophical View

38 Keeping It Worldly: A Sociologist’s View