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The fall and rise of religion in international relations : history and theory / Timothy Samuel Shah and Daniel Philpott -- Secularism and international relations theory / Elizabeth Shakman Hurd -- Another Great Awakening? International relations theory and religion / Michael Barnett -- Religion, rationality, and violence / Monica Duffy Toft -- Religion and international relations : no leap of faith required / Daniel H. Nexon -- In the service of state and nation : religion in East Asia / Il Hyun Cho and Peter J. Katzenstein -- Religion's contribution to international relations theory / Emily Cochran and Jack Snyder

"Globalization has been contested in recent times. Among the critical perspectives is cosmopolitanism. Yet, with the exception of normative theory, international relations as a field has ignored cosmopolitan thinking. This book redresses this gap and develops a dialogue between cosmopolitanism and international relations. The dialogue is structured around three debates between non-universalist theories of international relations and contemporary cosmopolitan thought. The theories chosen are realism, (post- )Marxism and postmodernism. All three criticize liberalism in the international domain, and, therefore, cosmopolitanism as an offshoot of liberalism. In the light of each school's respective critique of universalism, the book suggests both the importance and difficulty of the cosmopolitan perspective in the contemporary world. Beardsworth emphasizes the need for global leadership at nation-state level, re-embedding of the world economy, a cosmopolitan politics of the lesser violence, and cosmopolitan political judgement. He also suggests research agendas to situate further contemporary cosmopolitanism in international relations theory. This book will appeal to all students of political theory and international relations, especially those who are seeking more articulation of the main issues between cosmopolitanism and its critics in international relations"--Provided by publisher

This book re-evaluates the concept of anarchy in International Relations by drawing on anarchist thought. It is the first scholarly work to draw on historical anarchism to construct an international theory premised on the idea of states as anarchists. It puts forward a constructivist account of state behavior, termed 'polite anarchy', to theorize diplomacy, an area of IR which is increasingly recognized within the discipline as being under-theorized, by drawing on a contextual historical study of the idiom of politeness in the anarchist thought of the late-Enlightenment British radical, William Godwin, generally considered to be the founder of modern philosophical anarchism. The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students of International Relations, the history of political thought, international political theory and anarchism, as well as historians and practitioners in the field of diplomacy and Godwin scholars.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Significance of Metaphors in International Relations Theory -- Beginning Again with an Anecdote -- Foreign Policy by Metaphor: Barack Obama's "Red Line" -- Metaphors and Public Policy -- Why Metaphors Matter -- Conceptual Versus Linguistic Metaphors -- Governments and Metaphors -- The Nexus Between Policy Metaphors and Scholarship -- References -- Chapter 2: Metaphors of International Political Economy -- Metaphors in Economics1 -- Metaphors in the Study of Relations Among International Actors of Unequal Wealth -- Ordinal Worlds Metaphor -- Metaphors of "Development" -- The Metaphors of "Core," "Center," and "(Semi)Periphery" -- Metaphors of "North" and "South" -- Metaphor of "Dependency" -- "Global Inequality" -- Additional Thoughts About Relations Among International Actors of Unequal Wealth -- Foreign "Aid" -- "Globalization" in Metaphorical Perspective -- Some Metaphors of European Integration -- Functionalism, Neofunctionalism, and "Spillover" -- European Neighborhood Policy -- Reflections on the Subplot of IPE -- References -- Chapter 3: Metaphors of Democratization -- Metaphors in the Study of Democratization -- Democratic "Transition" and "Consolidation" -- Democratization Has a "Direction" -- "Waves" of Democratization -- Democratization and Swings of the "Pendulum" -- Directions of Democracy and "Modernization" -- "Advanced Democracies" -- Summary -- Reform/Democracy "From Above" Versus Reform/Democracy "From Below" -- Government Has "Density": "Thick" and "Thin" Political Authority -- Metaphor of the Democratic Deficit -- Narratives in the Metaphors of Democratization -- References -- Chapter 4: Theoretical Reflections -- Theoretical Aspects of Metaphors in Realism -- Metaphors and the Epistemology of Neorealism -- Metaphorical Aspects of Liberal Theory

Outland reviews 'New Thinking in International Relations Theory' edited by Michael W. Doyle and G. John Ikenberry.

This article posits empirical and political reasons for recent 'micro-moves' in several contemporary debates, and seeks to further develop them in future International Relations studies. As evidenced by growing trends in studies of practices, emotions and the everyday, there is continuing broad dissatisfaction with grand or structural theory's value without 'going down' to 'lower levels' of analysis where structures are enacted and contested. We suggest that empirics of the last 15 years — including the war on terror and the Arab Spring — have pushed scholars into increasingly micropolitical positions and analytical frameworks. Drawing upon insights from Gilles Deleuze, William Connolly and Henri Lefebvre, among others, we argue that attention to three issues — affect, space and time — hold promise to further develop micropolitical perspectives on and in International Relations, particularly on issues of power, identity and change. The article offers empirical illustrations of the analytical purchase of these concepts via discussion of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Arab Spring uprisings.

Globalization has been contested in recent times. Among the critical perspectives is cosmopolitanism. Yet, with the exception of normative theory, international relations as a field has ignored cosmopolitan thinking. This book redresses this gap and develops a dialogue between cosmopolitanism and international relations. The dialogue is structured around three debates between non-universalist theories of international relations and contemporary cosmopolitan thought. The theories chosen are realism, (post-)Marxism and postmodernism. All three criticize liberalism in the international domain, and, therefore, cosmopolitanism as an offshoot of liberalism. In the light of each school's respective critique of universalism, the book suggests both the importance and difficulty of the cosmopolitan perspective in the contemporary world. Beardsworth emphasizes the need for global leadership at nation-state level, re-embedding of the world economy, a cosmopolitan politics of the lesser violence, and cosmopolitan political judgement. He also suggests research agendas to situate further contemporary cosmopolitanism in international relations theory. This book will appeal to all students of political theory and international relations, especially those who are seeking more articulation of the main issues between cosmopolitanism and its critics in international relations.