The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Theory, Modern Power, World Politics
The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Theory, Modern Power, World Politics
Editor/Author
Soguk, Nevzat and Nelson, Nelson, Scott G.
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
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ISBN: 978-0-7546-7907-3
Category: Social Sciences - Political science
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Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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