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"Historical Theories of International Relations" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Featuring 16 new entries, International Relations: The Key Concepts, now in its fourth edition, is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs. Comprehensive and up to date, it introduces the most important themes in international relations"--

The Australian School of International Relations" challenges the widely-held misconception that there was little significance in Australian international relations thinking prior to 1960. Cotton considers and expounds the ideas of the eight international thinkers who were principal members of the early Australian school of international relations that occurred from 1920-1960. Each of the eight thinkers analyzed in this work helped initiate the formal academic study of international relations through their contributions to policy-making, participating in a complex network of personal and professional relationships. Comprehensive and accessible, "The Australian School of International Relations" is a valuable contribution to the fields of international relations and intellectual history

This article advances a call for greater reflexivity in International Relations (IR) to uncover various intellectual and political biases that may obscure the research process. Inspired by existing reflexive practices in IR and, in particular, Pierre Bourdieu's use of such a method, it argues that reflexivity matters for enhancing ethically grounded research, in terms of not only the choice of subjects to study, but also how specific problems are treated, and hence what kind of results can be expected. However, the argument also goes beyond the appeal to autobiographical reflexivity to embrace other dimensions. This includes attention to institutional forces that shape the agency of the scholar and, in turn, the complex relationship between the academy and the wider political world. In the most ambitious sense, the potential for reflexivity can also be conceived collectively in terms of activist intellectuals who seek to reward reflexive practices through dialogue and political intervention. The social space of international trade politics is taken as an empirical example.

This book offers a radical reinterpretation of the development of the modern world through the concept of Jacobinism. It argues that the French Revolution was not just another step in the construction of capitalist modernity, but produced an alternative (geo)political economy - that is, 'Jacobinism.' Furthermore, Jacobinism provided a blueprint for other modernization projects, thereby profoundly impacting the content and tempo of global modernity in and beyond Europe. The book traces the journey of Jacobinism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. It contends that until the 1950s, the Ottoman/Turkish experiment with modernity was not marked by capitalism, but by a historically specific Jacobinism. Asserting this Jacobin legacy then leads to a novel interpretation of the subsequent transition to and authoritarian consolidation of capitalism in contemporary Turkey. As such, by tracing the world historical trajectory of Jacobinism, the book establishes a new way of understanding the origins and development of global modernity.

En revisitant la conception que se faisait Durkheim de la société moderne, j'utilise ce cadre pour examiner la société internationale contemporaine. Je compare et oppose la réponse de Durkheim à la modernité à celles d'autres théoriciens de la sociologie d'aujourd'hui. Durkheim est, de multiples manières, des plus prometteurs et pertinents pour le présent. Je cherche à comprendre pourquoi le type de solidarité qu'il envisageait ne s'est pas développé dans le monde moderne, tandis que l'on peut raisonnablement dire que les formes inclusives de solidarité sont presque partout déclinantes. À partir de cette analyse, je me tourne vers la société internationale et je pose une série de questions sur la solidarité, son absence relative ou bien le fait qu'elle se manifeste en « agrégats » et ses conséquences sur les relations internationales.