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ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF HISTORICAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS This handbook presents a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview of the field of Historical International Relations (HIR). It summarizes and synthesizes existing contributions to the field while presenting central themes, approaches and methodologies that have driven the development of HIR, providing the reader with a sense of the diversity and research dynamics that are at the heart of this field of study. The wide range of topics covered are grouped under the following headings: • Traditions: Demonstrates the wide variety of approaches to HIR. • Thinking International Relations Historically: Different ways of thinking IR historically share some common concerns and areas for further investigation. • Actors, Processes and Institutions: Explores the processes, actors, practices, and institutions that constitute the core objects of study of many HIR scholars. • Situating Historical International Relations: Critically reflects about the situatedness of our objects of study. • Approaches: Examines how HIR scholars conduct and reflect about their research, often in dialogue with a variety of perspectives from cognate disciplines. Summarizing key contributions and trends while also sketching out challenges for future inquiry, this is an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers from a range of disciplines, particularly International Relations, global history, political science, history, sociology, anthro- pology, peace studies, diplomatic studies, security studies, international political thought, political geography, international law. Benjamin de Carvalho is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in Oslo. Julia Costa Lopez is a Senior Lecturer in History and Theory of International Relations at the University of Groningen. Halvard Leira is a Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in Oslo. “This invaluable volume provides exhaustive coverage of all the main priority areas of Historical International Relations. The editors are three of the leading lights in the field, and together with the contributors they incisively review and advance the state of the art on this important topic.” Jason Sharman, University of Cambridge, UK “An epic achievement and a veritable tour de force, this book is not only a who’s who and a what’s what of historical IR that combines senior, and junior rising, stars but it is surely the go-to-compendium for this rising sub-discipline, all of which has been brilliantly brought together by three of its leading lights.” John M. Hobson, University of Sheffield, UK “This wide-ranging collection is an important archive of Historical International Relations, a compendium of the state of a promising subfield and a hopeful indication of intellectual rejuvenation in the wider discipline of International Relations.” Patricia Owens, University of Oxford, UK ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF HISTORICAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Edited by Benjamin de Carvalho, Julia Costa Lopez and Halvard Leira First published 2021 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Benjamin de Carvalho, Julia Costa Lopez and Halvard Leira; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Benjamin de Carvalho, Julia Costa Lopez and Halvard Leira to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. 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Other titles: Handbook of Historical International Relations Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020055887 (print) | LCCN 2020055888 (ebook) | ISBN 9780815347644 (hardback) | ISBN 9781351168960 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: International Relations–History. | International Relations–Research. Classification: LCC JZ1305 .R6845 2021 (print) | LCC JZ1305 (ebook) | DDC 327.09–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020055887 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020055888 ISBN: 9780815347644 (hbk) ISBN: 9781351168960 (ebk) ISBN: 9781032006697 (pbk) Typeset in Bembo by KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. CONTENTS List of contributors x Preface and acknowledgements xix 1 Introduction: Historical International Relations 1 Benjamin de Carvalho, Julia Costa Lopez and Halvard Leira PART I Traditions 15 2 Theories and philosophies of history in International Relations 17 Joseph MacKay and Christopher David LaRoche 3 The English School and Historical International Relations 27 Cornelia Navari and Daniel M. Green 4 World-Systems Analysis: Past trajectories and future prospects 37 Robert A. Denemark 5 Historical Sociology in International Relations: The challenge of the global 47 Julian Go, George Lawson and Benjamin de Carvalho 6 Liberalism between theory and practice 59 Beate Jahn 7 Realism: Excavating a historical tradition 71 Deborah Welch Larson v Contents 8 Constructivism: History and systemic change 80 Quentin Bruneau 9 Poststructuralism and the challenge of history 90 Andreas Aagaard Nøhr 10 International Political Thought and Historical International Relations 99 Or Rosenboim and Liane Hartnett PART II Thinking International Relations historically 111 11 Disciplinary traditions and debates: The subject matters of international thought 113 Lucian M. Ashworth 12 War and the turn to history in International Relations 127 Jens Bartelson 13 Capitalism and ‘the international’: A historical approach 138 Alexander Anievas and Cristian Gogu 14 Gender in Historical International Relations 153 Ann E. Towns 15 Eurocentrism and civilization 162 Brett Bowden 16 Disciplinary histories of non-anglophone International Relations: Latin American and the Caribbean 171 Melody Fonseca Santos 17 Pre-modern Asia and International Relations theory 181 Victoria Tin-bor Hui 18 Race and Historical International Relations 192 Joanne Yao and Andrew Delatolla 19 Political theology and Historical International Relations 201 William Bain 20 Time and history in International Relations 210 Andrew R. Hom vi Contents PART III Actors, processes, and institutions 219 21 Sovereignty in Historical International Relations: Trajectories, challenges, and implications 221 Benjamin de Carvalho 22 State formation and Historical International Relations 231 Benjamin de Carvalho and Halvard Leira 23 Nations and nationalism in International Relations 244 Jaakko Heiskanen 24 States, people and self-determination in historical perspective 253 Maja Spanu 25 Borders and boundaries: Making visible what divides 267 Kerry Goettlich and Jordan Branch 26 Reason of state: An intellectual history 277 Richard Devetak 27 Balance of power: A key concept in historical perspective 289 Morten Skumsrud Andersen and William C. Wohlforth 28 Diplomacy: The world of states and beyond 302 Halvard Leira 29 Insurance, trade, and war 311 Luis Lobo-Guerrero 30 International law and the laws of war 321 Claire Vergerio 31 International organisations in historical perspective 330 Ellen J. Ravndal 32 Revolutions: Integrating the international 341 George Lawson 33 Imperialism: Beyond the ‘re-turn to empire’ in International Relations 355 Martin J. Bayly vii Contents 34 Decolonisation and the erosion of the imperial idea 368 Ted Svensson 35 Understanding the postcolonial cold war 379 Heonik Kwon PART IV Situating Historical IR 387 36 Ancient Greece: War, peace and diplomacy in antiquity 389 Torbjørn L. Knutsen 37 Rome: Republic, monarchy and empire 398 Torbjørn L. Knutsen and Martin Hall 38 International Relations in/and the Middle Ages 408 Julia Costa Lopez 39 Early (modern) empires: The political ideology of conceptual domination 419 Mauro J. Caraccioli 40 Europe in Historical International Relations 432 Benjamin Herborth and Patrick Nitzschner 41 Africa and international history 441 Joel Quirk 42 International order in East Asia 454 Shogo Suzuki 43 Linking up the Ottoman Empire with IR’s timeline 464 Ay¸se Zarakol 44 Latin America: Between liminality and agency in Historical International Relations 477 Carsten-Andreas Schulz PART V Approaches 487 45 International Relations in the archive: Uses of sources and historiography 489 Jeppe Mulich viii Contents 46 History and memory: Narratives, micropolitics, and crises 503 Jelena Subotic and Brent Steele 47 How to do the history of international thought? 512 Tomas Wallenius 48 Global histories: Connections and circulations in Historical International Relations 521 Zeynep Gülsah Çapan, Filipe dos Reis and Maj Grasten 49 Historical practices: Recovering a Durkheimian tradition 530 Jorg Kustermans 50 Quantitative approaches: Towards comparative and trans-regional approaches in Historical International Relations 540 Charles R. Butcher and Ryan D. Griffiths 51 Conceptual history in International Relations: From ideology to social theory? 551 Oliver Kessler 52 Historical periods and the act of periodisation 562 Xavier Guillaume PART VI Afterword 571 53 Afterword: Ahead to the past 573 Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach Index 583 ix