The SAGE Handbook of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations offers a panoramic overview of the broad field of International Relations by integrating three distinct but interrelated foci. It retraces the historical development of International Relations (IR) as a professional field of study, explores the philosophical foundations of IR, and interrogates the sociological mechanisms through which scholarship is produced and the field is structured.

Table of Contents

• International Advisory Board
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• The Inward Gaze: Introductory Reflections
• The Struggle for the Soul of International Relations: Fragments of a Collective Journey - Andreas Gofas, Inanna Hamati-Ataya and Nicholas Onuf
• Crafting the Reflexive Gaze: Knowledge of Knowledge in the Social Worlds of International Relations - Inanna Hamati-Ataya
• Imagining the International, Acknowledging the Global
• From the International to the Global? - Jens Bartelson
• Coloring the Global: Race, Colonialism and Internationalism - Himadeep Muppidi
• Liberal International Political Economy as Colonial Science - David L. Blaney and Naeem Inayatullah
• International Relations as a Historical Social Science - George Lawson
• International Relations and the Gendered International - Jacqui True and Sarah Hewitt
• Beyond the ‘Religious Turn’: International Relations as Political Theology - Mustapha Kamal Pasha
• Between ‘East’ and ‘West’: Travelling Theories, Travelling Imaginations - Zeynep Gülşah Çapan and Ayşe Zarakol
• International Relations and the Rise of Asia: A New ‘Moral Imagination’ for World Politics? - L.H.M. Ling and Boyu Chen
• Confucian Pacifism or Confucian Confusion? - Victoria Tin-bor Hui
• The Challenges of ‘Contextualism’ - Evgeny Roshchin
• Imagining International Relations Through Alternative Worlds - Richard Ned Lebow
• The Search for (An) Identity
• The Origins of International Relations: Idealists, Administrators and the Institutionalization of a New Science - Torbjørn L. Knutsen
• ‘Canon’ Fodder: The Founding Fathers, Classics and ‘isms’ of International Relations - Jeremy Youde and Brent J. Steele
• The Function of Myths in International Relations: Discipline and Identity - Halvard Leira and Benjamin de Carvalho
• Identity and Theory: Towards Sociological Explanations of ‘Schools’ in International Relations - Peter Marcus Kristensen and Yongjin Zhang
• International Relations’ Crystal Ball: Prediction and Forecasting - Patrick James and Randall J. Jones Jr
• The Problem of Social Utility: International Relations and the ‘Policy Gap’ - Nicholas Michelsen
• A Fear of Foundations? - Colin Wight
• After First Principles: The Sociological Turn in International Relations as Disciplinary Crisis - Daniel J. Levine and Alexander D. Barder
• International Relations and the Challenges of Interdisciplinarity - Tanja Aalberts
• ‘Does It Matter if It's a Discipline?’ Bawled the Child - Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
• International Relations as a Profession
• The Unequal Profession - Arlene B. Tickner
• From Community to Practice: International Relations as a Practical Configuration - Christian Bueger and Frank Gadinger
• Rule by Referees? The Curious World of Academic Judgment - Thomas J. Volgy
• International Relations Expertise at the Interstices of Fields and Assemblages - Anna Leander
• International Relations Ideas as Reflections and Weapons of US Foreign Policy - Ido Oren
• For an Undisciplined Take on International Relations: The Politics of Situated Scholarship - David Grondin and Anne-Marie D'Aoust
• Counter-Mapping the Discipline: The Archipelago of Western International Relations Teaching - Jonas Hagmann and Thomas Biersteker
• E pluribus unum? How Textbooks Cover Theories - Felix Berenskoetter
• International Pedagogical Relations in Fragments: Politics and Poetics in the Classroom and Beyond - Erzsébet Strausz
• Training in Critical Interpretivism, Within and Beyond the Academy - Marcos Scauso, Tanya B. Schwarz and Cecelia Lynch
• The Dialectic of Politics and Science from a Post-Truth Standpoint: An Outsider's Perspective on the Field of International Relations - Steve Fuller
• What We Do: International Relations as Craft - Nicholas Onuf
• Looking Ahead: The Future of Meta-Analysis
• A Historiographer's View: Rewriting the History of International Thought - Lucian M. Ashworth
• Meta-Analysis: A Philosophical View - John G. Gunnell
• Keeping It Worldly: A Sociologist's View - Ole Wæver