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No-one seriously doubts the importance of E. H. Carr in the history of the study of international relations. The publication of The Twenty Years' "Crisis, 1919–1939, in 1939 marked a turning point in international theory, ending, as it did in Britain, the dominance of the more traditional 'pro-gressivist' or 'idealist' schools of thought characterized in the writings of, for example, Norman Angell, Bertrand Russell, Alfred Zimmern, Arnold Toynbee, G. Lowes Dickinson and others. The bulk of Carr's work in the field was written in the twenty or so years between 1936 (when he accepted the Woodrow Wilson Chair of International Politics at Aberystwyth) and 1955 (when he accepted a Fellowship at Trinity, his old Cambridge College), and since then his energies have been concentrated on his abiding concern with the history of Soviet Russia. Nevertheless, he is still an important figure in the field and although international relations has not been his life' work, his unique contribution to its understanding, ensures him a permanent place in the British tradition of international studies.

In anthropology, the concept of cultural intimacy expresses those aspects of a cultural identity that are considered a source of international criticism for the state, but are nevertheless used to provide insiders with a sense of national comfort, understanding, and self-reflexive, ontological security. Cultural intimacy helps illuminate how states present themselves internationally and how they understand themselves domestically. It can also explain the seeming discrepancies and contradictions between a state's domestic and international identities. Cultural intimacy, in other words, explains the mutual reproduction of different levels of identity. Using the concept of cultural intimacy as a departure point, this article develops a framework for understanding incongruities in the domestic and international facades of state identity. We argue that there is a structural component to the level of discomfort caused by negative international appraisals of a given state. Structural position determines whether the domestic sources of cultural intimacy will cause shame, embarrassment, or guilt, and therefore also indicate how that negative international image will be handled by the state. The theoretical argument is illustrated with reference to the cases of Serbia, Croatia, and the Netherlands, and their distinctive responses to the Balkan conflict of the 1990s. [Reprinted by permission; copyright Sage Publications Ltd. & ECPR-European Consortium for Political Research.]

Recognition in general comes in many flavours, and so do desires and hopes for recognition. The same is true of recognition of agency in particular. In this short text, I will engage in some basic conceptual work that could be useful for thinking about the theme of this special issue. I will, first, distinguish between several forms of agency that matter in international relations (though not only there) and that can be either recognised or remain unrecognised. Second, I will reflect on what exactly it may mean to 'recognise' agency of these various kinds. Finally, I will discuss possible uses of the denial of agency in international relations.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The theoretical foundations of constructivism and its treatment of law -- Introduction -- ONUF -- Introduction -- Rules -- Agency -- Conclusion -- KRATOCHWIL -- Introduction -- Intersubjectivity -- Change -- The causal power of norms -- Kratochwil and the law -- International law -- Conclusion -- 2 Challenging the common sense idea of law -- Introduction: setting the scene -- The common sense view of law -- Formalism -- Legal reasoning in the common sense idea of law -- Syllogism and deductive reasoning -- Reasoning by analogy -- Precedent -- Flexibility and legal Reasoning: how legal reasoning actually works -- Anti-formalism and the middle way -- Conclusion: how to understand law -- 3 Introducing critical jurisprudence -- Introduction -- The sociological movement -- From sociological to 8216;critical8217; approaches -- Marxism and the conflict model of society -- Re-imagining a Marxist theory of law -- Critical legal studies -- Legal indeterminacy -- Feminism: critical jurisprudence in action -- Conclusion -- 4 Brown, desegregation and racism in America: the myth and reality of law8217;s ability to solve complex social problems -- Introduction -- The 8216;story8217; of Brown -- The NAACP8217;s litigation strategy -- A direct attack on Plessy: beyond 8216;separate but equal8217; -- The case and the opinion -- Explaining Brown -- Brown and civil rights reform: a different reading of Brown -- The courts and social change -- Brown and the law -- Conclusion -- 5 Constructing rape: defining the problem and finding the solution -- Introduction -- The problem with rape -- The 1970s and 1980s: treatment of complainants -- New Labour reform: the preoccupation with conviction rates -- Reform -- Attrition rates -- Competing narratives of the rape problem -- Feminist interpretations -- Third phase feminism -- Conclusion -- 6 Law and normative backsliding: torture since 9/11 -- Introduction -- The evolution of constructivism -- Theories of norm evolution post-9/11 -- Norm evolution as a ratchet -- The role of law in normative backsliding -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Examines the impact of the information revolution on international and domestic security, attempting to remedy both the lack of theoretically informed analysis of information security and the US-centric tendency in the existing literature.