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"This edited volume presents a new, grand and global narrative for international relations (IR) history in the pivotal nineteenth century. Typically considered by IR scholars to be a long century of relative peace after 1815, the contributors offer a re-conceptualization of IR in this century, arguing that it is temporally bifurcated, with very different patterns of behavior in the first and second halves. A mid-century discontinuity - a "pivot period"--Marks the transition phase in Europe and globally when, in the space of a few years, a shift occurred from a comparatively calm, politically disconnected world under loose British free trade hegemony to one of scrambles for territory and keen interest in imperial possessions and conquest. All the book's chapters deal with characterizing patterns of relations in the first half of the century or the second, with two addressing the discontinuity in the middle. In the first half aspects of regional orders are described (in Latin America, East Asia and Europe) alongside crucial developmental processes (missionaries and colonial expansion, the agency of regionally localized actors, of leading elites). In the second half, there is again discussion of regional developments (East Asia, Europe), but now under the onslaught and pressures of the latter half of the century, and spotlighting industrialization's impact and the role of status competition and international law. In presenting this new narrative for the nineteenth century, it becomes clear that an era long considered uninteresting on Eurocentric grounds is in fact crucial and pivotal in global terms. This work will be of particular interest to students and scholars of the history of international relations"--

This article uses the framework of "traditions of thought" and "dilemmas" to problematize and revise the English School's Expansion Narrative of international relations history in the crucial nineteenth century, when the forms and practices of "European international society" expanded to dominate the world's international relations. An exercise in historicizing and contextualizing the broader liberal tradition of international thought brings into focus a period of liberal ideas and policies in the first-half of the nineteenth century, before Expansion and the New Imperialism, and a particular "free trade" liberal order project adopted by Britain in the years 1830–1865 in particular. This brings a different perspective to the ES historical narrative of expansion of the European international society into a "global international society." The article contextualizes ideas in the nineteenth century liberal tradition by highlighting a British global "unipolar moment" and the order project that accompanied it. It discusses the "dilemmas" that prompted the closing of that era and a shift in British thought and policy during the 1860s. These laid the foundation for the Expansion the English School focuses on after 1870, but also constitute a previous experiment in the engagement of the West with the Rest, with different potentialities, before the final onslaught of global-scale conquest.

"The Expansion of International Society" published on by Oxford University Press.

"The Impact of Meso-Level Assumptions on Grand Theorizing: Using Unit, State, and Regime Type for Constructing IR's Historical Narratives (and Theory-Building)" published on by Oxford University Press.

The chapter examines the theoretical, disciplinary, & institutional quandaries confronted by traditional political comparativists. Three particular challenges are identified: globalization, the theoretical ascendancy of interpretivism, & metatheoretical sophistication born of postmodern antifoundationalism. Constructivist comparative politics (CCP) offers a theoretical entry into the debates engaging the social sciences as a whole in the late modern era. The remainder of the chapter describes the CCP approach & its range of inquiry in terms of theory, methodology, ontology, & epistemology. Also surveyed are important comparativist studies in the field over the last twenty years that demonstrate the evolution of the constructivist approach. 160 References. K. Coddon