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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: The Concept of the State in International Relations -- 1. International Law and Statehood: A Performative View -- 2. The State as a Universe of Discourse -- 3. Sovereignty and the Personality of the State -- 4. The State as Urban Myth: Governance without Government in the Global South -- 5. Decolonising Sovereignty: Globalisation and the Return of Hyper-Sovereignty -- 6. The Concept of the State as a Community of Liability -- 7. From Global Governance to Global Stateness -- 8. Open Societies, Cosmopolitanism and the Kelsenian State as a Safeguard against Nationalism -- Index

There are different scientifically valid ways to produce knowledge. The field of International Relations should pay attention to these methodological differences, and to their implications for research on world politics. This book offers an introduction to the philosophy of science issues and their implications for the study of global politics.