International Relations in the prison of Political Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4445211 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Rosenberg (0000-0002-2950-1541, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 127-153 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0047117816644662 |
| OpenAlex | W2335923987 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 149 |
| References cited | 26 |
In recent decades, the discipline of International Relations (IR) has experienced both dramatic institutional growth and unprecedented intellectual enrichment. And yet, unlike neighbouring disciplines such as Geography, Sociology, History and Comparative Literature, it has still not generated any 'big ideas' that have impacted across the human sciences. Why is this? And what can be done about it? This article provides an answer in three steps. First, it traces the problem to IR's enduring definition as a subfield of Political Science. Second, it argues that IR should be re-grounded in its own disciplinary problematique: the consequences of (societal) multiplicity. And finally, it shows how this re-grounding unlocks the transdisciplinary potential of IR. Specifically, 'uneven and combined development' provides an example of an IR 'big idea' that could travel to other disciplines: for by operationalizing the consequences of multiplicity, it reveals the causal and constitutive significance of 'the international' for the social world as a whole
Discipline · Epistemology · International relations · International relations theory · Operationalization · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Philosophy · Political Science Research and Education
Reactive Nationalism? Governance Through Identities in an Eastern Ukrainian City
Ukraine, Russia and new wars
El grado en relaciones internacionales en España
Os eternos movimentos (in)disciplinares entre a História e as Relações Internacionais
Jurisdiction, Legal Form, and the Transition to Capitalism Debate
Multiplicity and ‘The International’ as Critique – A Forum
Interregno hegemônico? Uma avaliação sobre a hegemonia dos Estados Unidos a partir da análise das relações de força dos cadernos carcerários de Gramsci
Imagined communities
Writing Capitalism into Iran through the International
Uneven and combined development (UCD) and the trajectory of Turkish literary modernity
Global International Society
The uneven and combined development of racial capitalism and South Africa’s changing race-class articulations
The Making of Global International Relations
Two Stories to Tell about International Political Sociology
Meta-Moves
Motioning the International
Deep Global Futures
Plural ontology of the international
CAN IR Hear? Grasping the Global Politics of Languages
Scattered and Unsystematic
Prehistorical International Relations
Making the Climate Malleable? “Weak” and “Strong” Governance Objects and the Transformation of International Climate Politics
Reification in IR
Weaving Worlds
Anarchy, Nature, and Innovation
The Red Atlantic
International, Political, Sociology Revisited
Blinkered Learning, Blinkered Theory
Rethinking Japan in mainstream international relations
Infrastructures and International Relations
Reimagining Comparisons in International Relations through Reflexivity
Why is there no Non-Western International Relations Theory? Ten years on
La Sociología Histórica Internacional y el estudio de la China moderna
From margins to mastery
Clash of Geofutures and the Remaking of Planetary Order
Relaciones internacionales y América Latina
The fragmentation of a discipline
The arrival of the multi-order world—reflections on the state of play
Anarchy, Technology, and the Self-Destruction Hypothesis
Continuities and Changes
Authoritarian protectionism and the post-neoliberal transition
From climate action to climate agency
Multiplicity All-Around
Multiplicity
Taking Publicist IR Seriously
The Multiplicity Straightjacket
Multiplicity and Foreign Policy Analysis
Who makes the world? Academics and (un)cancelling the future
A country for old men
Publicism, Truth-Pluralism and the Usefulness Problem in International Relations; Pluralism, Publicity, and Scholarly Practice
Looking. Again
International Relations Scholarship at 100
Class, culture and political representation of the native in Russia and East Central Europe
The World is (Not) Heated
The new anarchy
Collective intentionality, complex pluralism and the problem of anarchy
Strange multiplicity’ as a moral-political value
Why does global democracy not inspire explanatory research? Removing conceptual obstacles toward a new research agenda
Recognition, multiplicity and the elusive international
Levels, centers, and peripheries
Theory, history, and the global transformation
The ‘Mesopotamian trap’
International vs. area? The disciplinary-politics of knowledge-exchange between IR and Area Studies
Italians do it better? The Italian approach to the international relations
Whither IR? Multiplicity, relations, and the paradox of International Relations
The rise of the Latin American far-right explained
Deciphering the modern Janus
Multiplicity
Why is there no conceptual history of ‘international’
An international politics of Czech architecture; or, reviving the international in international political sociology
The Eurasian form of internationalisation and Turkey’s Chinese model
Hierarchical multiplicity in the international monetary system
Multiplicity
Nature and the international
Understanding intervention through multiplicity
Multiplicity expanded
Conflict and the separateness of peoples
Trotsky’s error
Uneven and combined development and sub-imperialism
Strategic Facts as a Comprehensive Model for Defence Analysis
Common knowledge? Business intellectuals, BRIC and the production of knowledge across global finance and international relations
Walking a fine line
Teaching Australian foreign policy through the lens of strategic culture
The ethics of scholarship in a changing region
Misrecognised, misfit and misperceived
The international politics of geoengineering
The public-private distinction in the shadow of China
Multiplicity, group identity and the spectre of the social
Uneven and combined development and the geopolitics of capitalist money
Freeing uneven and combined development from the whip of external necessity
Results and prospects
Of economic whips and political necessities
The greening of uneven and combined development
States as colonial projects
(Re-)conceptualising the international
Geoculture and unevenness
TimeSpace of the ‘international’
Denying the international
Was an Instance of Transnational Balancing
What’s the point of being a discipline? Four disciplinary strategies and the future of International Relations
The human web
The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation
The Interpretation of Cultures
Europe and the people without history
On the History and Historiography of International Relations
Still a Discipline After All These Debates?
Manifesto of the Communist Party
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Intimations of Postmodernity
A Critical Review of Barrington Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Putting the nation back into ‘the international’
Capitalism, uneven and combined development and the transhistoric
Basic problems in the theory of uneven and combined development. Part II
Conceptions of space in social thought. A geographic perspective
A Brazilian Breakthrough
International relations theory
The European Past
International Relations
Should We Leave Behind the Subfield of International Relations
Uneven and Combined Development in World History
Why is There No International Historical Sociology
The end of International Relations theory
Logics of History
Internal History of Society or Universal History
| Unique citing works | 149 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 14,9 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 140 |