Description
Historical approaches to the study of world politics have always been a major part of the academic discipline of International Relations, and there has recently been a resurgence of scholarly interest in this area. This Oxford Handbook examines the past and present of the intersection between history and IR, and looks to the future by laying out new questions and directions for research. Seeking to transcend well-worn disciplinary debates between historians and IR scholars, the Handbook asks authors from both fields to engage with the central themes of 'modernity' and 'granularity'. Modernity is one of the basic organising categories of speculation about continuity and discontinuity in the history of world politics, but one that is increasingly questioned for privileging one kind of experience and marginalizing others. The theme of granularity highlights the importance of how decisions about the scale and scope of historical research in IR shape what can be seen, and how one sees it. Together, these themes provide points of affinity across the wide range of topics and approaches presented here.The Handbook is organized into four parts. The first, 'Readings', gives a state-of-the-art analysis of numerous aspects of the disciplinary encounter between historians and IR theorists. Thereafter, sections on 'Practices', 'Locales', and 'Moments' offer a wide variety of perspectives, from the longue durée to the ephemeral individual moment, and challenge many conventional ways of defining the contexts of historical enquiry about international relations. Contributors come from a range of academic backgrounds, and present a diverse array of methodological and philosophical ideas, as well as their various historical interests. The Oxford Handbooks of International Relations is a twelve-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and innovative engagements with the principal sub-fields of International Relations.The series as a whole is under the General Editorship of Christian Reus-Smit of the University of Queensland and Duncan Snidal of the University of Oxford, with each volume edited by specialists in the field. The series both surveys the broad terrain of International Relations scholarship and reshapes it, pushing each sub-field in challenging new directions. Following the example of Reus-Smit and Snidal's original Oxford Handbook of International Relations, each volume is organized around a strong central thematic by scholars drawn from different perspectives, reading its sub-field in an entirely new way, and pushing scholarship in challenging new directions.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction
- 1: Mlada Bukovansky and Edward Keene: Modernity and Granularity in History and International Relations
- Part II. Readings
- 2: R. B. J. Walker: Origins, Histories, and the Modern International
- 3: Michael C. Williams: Historical Realism
- 4: Lucian M. Ashworth: Liberal Progressivism and International History
- 5: Maïa Pal: Historical Sociology in International Relations
- 6: George Lawson and Jeppe Mulich: Global History and International Relations
- 7: Duncan Bell: International Relations and Intellectual History
- 8: Laura Sjoberg: Gender, History, and International Relations
- 9: Zeynep Gulsah Capan: Postcolonial Histories of International Relations
- 10: Peter Jackson and Talbot Imlay: International Relations Theory and the Practice of International History
- 11: Chen Yudan: Global Sources of International Thought
- Part III. Practices
- 12: Jordan Branch and Jan Stockbruegger: State, Territoriality, and Sovereignty
- 13: Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey: Diplomacy
- 14: Martin J. Bayly: Empire
- 15: Yongjin Zhang: Barbarism and Civilization
- 16: Nivi Manchanda: Race and Racism
- 17: Cecelia Lynch: Religion, History, and International Relations
- 18: Andrea Paras: Rights
- 19: A. Dirk Moses: The Diplomacy of Genocide
- 20: Tarak Barkawi: War and History in World Politics
- 21: James Mayall: Nationalism
- 22: Lauren Benton: Interpolity Law
- 23: Eric Helleiner: Regulating Commerce
- 24: Corinna R. Unger: Development
- 25: Kevin L. Young and Signe Predmore: Governing Finance
- 26: Eric Selbin: Revolution
- Part IV. Locales (Spatial, Temporal, Cultural)
- 27: Julia Costa Lopez: The 'Premodern' World
- 28: Ayse Zarakol: Modernity and Modernities in International Relations
- 29: Jacinta O'Hagan: The 'West' in International Relations
- 30: Daniel Gordon: The Eighteenth Century
- 31: Quentin Bruneau: The Long Nineteenth Century
- 32: John Anthony Pella, Jr.: The Pre-Colonial African State System
- 33: Michael Gobat: The 'Americas' in the History of International Relations
- 34: David C. Kang: 'Asia' in the History of International Relations
- 35: Or Rosenboim: The 'International' and the 'Global' in International History
- Part V. Moment
- 36: Jonathan Harris: The Fall of Constantinople
- 37: Andrew Phillips: The Peace of Westphalia
- 38: Karl W. Schweizer: The Seven Years War
- 39: Musab Younis: The Haitian Revolution
- 40: Jennifer Mitzen and Jeff Rogg: The Congress of Vienna
- 41: Daniel M. Green: The Revolutions of 1848
- 42: Alexander E. Davis: The Indian 'Mutiny'
- 43: Claire Vergerio: The Berlin and Hague Conferences
- 44: Duncan Kelly: World War One and Versailles
- 45: Megan Donaldson: Sykes-Picot
- 46: Daniel Gorman: World War Two and San Francisco
- 47: Christopher J. Lee: The Bandung Conference
- 48: Richard Ned Lebow and Benoît Pelopidas: Facing Nuclear War: Luck, Learning, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Part V. Conclusion
- 49: Maja Spanu and Christian Reus-Smit: History and the International: Time, Space, Agency, and Language
