Inside/Outside

International Relations as Political Theory

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In this book Rob Walker offers an original analysis of the relationship between twentieth-century theories of international relations, and the political theory of civil society since the early modern period. He views theories of international relations both as an ideological expression of the modern state, and as a clear indication of the difficulties of thinking about a world politics characterized by profound spatiotemporal accelerations. International relations theories should be seen, the author argues, more as aspects of contemporary world politics than as explanations of contemporary world politics. These theories are examined in the light of recent debates about modernity and post-modernity, sovereignty and political identity, and the limits of modern social and political theory. This book is a major contribution to the field of critical international relations, and will be of interest to social and political theorists and political scientists, as well as students and scholars of international relations.

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"Walker shows mastery of the literature. His work is theoretically comprehensive and innovative. Definitely a work to be studied by scholars of international relations or political and social philosophy and ethics." Choice "...this is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary international/political theory." Ethics "Inside/Outside represents Walker's most concerted effort yet to illustrate to a contemporary readership the need to go beyond that dichotomy which at one level separates 'domestic' from 'international'practice and at another distinguishes something called political 'theory' from its international counterpart...R. B. J. Walker has been one of the most innovative and incisive contributors to the expanded agenda on international relations over the past decade...if one is seeking, in a single volume, a coherent broad-ranging and generally accessible articulation of some of the most important issues of theory/practice in the modern era, Inside/Outside fits the bill. As such, it deserves to be read widely and discussed seriously by an international relations community struggling to redefine itself and the world in a volatile age." Jim George, American Political Science Review

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Preface	p. ix
International relations as political theory	p. 1
The historical moment	p. 1
Historicity, spatiality and the theory of international relations	p. 6
Horizons of modern political theory	p. 15
Meditations on the disciplinary practices of a discipline	p. 21
The Prince and 'the pauper'	p. 26
The politics of origins	p. 26
The tradition of international relations theory: three variations	p. 31
Machiavelli and political community	p. 34
Machiavelli and temporality	p. 38
Machiavelli and the politics of displacement	p. 41
Thinking with and against Machiavelli	p. 43
From origins to disjunctions	p. 47
Ethics, modernity, community	p. 50
At the intersection	p. 50
Temporality and the dialectics of enlightenment	p. 52
Spatiality, sovereignty and the ethics of exclusion	p. 60
The society of states and the ethics of cooperation	p. 67
Sovereignty, modernity and political community	p. 74
History, structure, reification	p. 81
Beyond hegemony, before epistemology	p. 81
Historical departures	p. 88
Structural proliferations	p. 92
From international relations to world politics	p. 99
Realism and change	p. 104
Political realism and political realisms	p. 104
Realisms, histories, structures	p. 113
Structuralism and neorealism	p. 115
The ambivalences of historicism	p. 121
The territorial state and the theme of Gulliver	p. 125
States and spaces	p. 125
Spaces and hierarchies	p. 130
Oscillations and continuities	p. 135
On the spatio-temporal conditions of democratic practice	p. 141
Cosmopolitan charm and cultivated cynicism	p. 141
Democracy and political community	p. 144
Affirming and challenging state sovereignty	p. 153
Sovereign identities and the politics of forgetting	p. 159
Sovereignty and repetition	p. 159
Sovereignty and historicity	p. 162
Sovereignty from the inside	p. 169
Sovereignty from the outside	p. 171
Sovereignty deferred	p. 174
Sovereignty, identity, difference	p. 176
Rearticulations of political space/time	p. 179
Notes	p. 184
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 231
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