Deliberately eschewing disciplinary and temporal boundaries, this volume makes a major contribution to the de-traditionalization of political thinking within the discourses of international relations.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword (Avante!) by James Der Derian
• 1 Introduction: The Measure of Modern Theory in World Politics Nevzat Soguk and Scott G. Nelson
• Part I Theoretical Interventions
• 2 Ever Since the Days of Thucydides: On the Textual Origins of IR Theory Timothy J. Ruback
• 3 Appropriating Adam Smith: Affirmation and Contestation in Discourses of Political Economy Joel T. Shelton
• 4 Marx and Materiality: “International Relations” as Embedded Efficiencies and Emergencies Timothy W. Luke
• 5 No International Theory, but What about Transformation? A Critical Reading of Martin Wight and Raya Dunayevskaya Sandra Rein
• 6 Hannah Arendt and the Geopolitics of Ecology Jake P. Greear
• 7 Critical Spirits/Realist Specters: Some Hypotheses on the Spectro-Poetics of International Relations Richard K. Ashley
• Part II Security, Representation, and Subjectivity
• 8 The Centrality of Tabloid Geopolitics: Western Discourses of Terror and the Defacing of the Other François Debrix
• 9 Writing from the Edge Roxanne Lynn Doty
• 10 The Presence of War: “Here and Elsewhere” Michael J. Shapiro
• 11 Territorializing the Soul: The Geopolitics of Subjectivity Scott G. Nelson
• 12 Return of the Oppressed: Recognition, Violence, and the Mediation of Estrangement Sam Okoth Opondo
• 13 The Achievements of Feminism in IR Julie Webber
• Part III The Analytics of World Politics
• 14 Between U.S. Imperialism and “Empire”: World Politics and the Globalization of Late Capitalist Subjectivity Nicholas J. Kiersey
• 15 “Beyond” the International: The Immanence of the Global Peter Lenco
• 16 Interdisciplining Global Thinking Brian McCormack
• 17 The (Human) Subject of Security: Beyond the Biopolitics of Resilience Julian Reid
• 18 Melancholia, Realism, and International Relations Nevzat Soguk
• 19 Beyond Dualism: Expanded Understandings of Religion and Global Justice Erin K. Wilson
• 20 The Paradox of Crisis and the Importance of Being Disinterested Geoffrey Whitehall
• 21 Constructivism, Archaeology, and Humanitarian Intervention: A Reflection on Method Laura Zanotti
• Part IV Virtual Communities
• 22 What Would a Global Civic Order Look Like? A Perspective from Islamic History Mohammed A. Bamyeh
• 23 Cosmopolitan Theory and World Politics: An Argument for Cosmopolitan Realism Richard Beardsworth
• 24 The Last Frontier: Contemporary Peregrinations over the Borders of International Relations Lorenzo Rinelli
• 25 Nationalism, Violence, and Globalization: Reflections on Gandhi's Political Thought Manfred B. Steger
• Epilogue: Political Judgment in International Relations Theory Scott G. Nelson and Nevzat Soguk