Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Historical International Relations -- PART I: Traditions -- 2. Theories and philosophies of history in International Relations -- 3. The English School and Historical International Relations -- 4. World-Systems Analysis: Past trajectories and future prospects -- 5. Historical Sociology in International Relations: The challenge of the global -- 6. Liberalism between theory and practice -- 7. Realism: Excavating a historical tradition -- 8. Constructivism: History and systemic change -- 9. Poststructuralism and the challenge of history -- 10. International Political Thought and Historical International Relations -- PART II: Thinking International Relations historically -- 11. Disciplinary traditions and debates: The subject matters ofinternational thought -- 12. War and the turn to history in International Relations -- 13. Capitalism and 'the international': A historical approach -- 14. Gender in Historical International Relations -- 15. Eurocentrism and civilization -- 16. Disciplinary histories of non-anglophone International Relations:Latin American and the Caribbean -- 17. Pre-modern Asia and International Relations theory -- 18. Race and Historical International Relations -- 19. Political theology and Historical International Relations -- 20. Time and history in International Relations -- PART III: Actors, processes, and institutions -- 21. Sovereignty in Historical International Relations: Trajectories, challenges,and implications -- 22. State formation and Historical International Relations -- 23. Nations and nationalism in International Relations -- 24. States, people and self-determination in historical perspective -- 25. Borders and boundaries: Making visible what divides.

26. Reason of state: An intellectual history -- 27. Balance of power: A key concept in historical perspective -- 28. Diplomacy: The world of states and beyond -- 29. Insurance, trade, and war -- 30. International law and the laws of war -- 31. International organisations in historical perspective -- 32. Revolutions: Integrating the international -- 33. Imperialism: Beyond the 're-turn to empire' in International Relations -- 34. Decolonisation and the erosion of the imperial idea -- 35. Understanding the postcolonial cold war -- PART IV: Situating Historical IR -- 36. Ancient Greece: War, peace and diplomacy in antiquity -- 37. Rome: Republic, monarchy and empire -- 38. International Relations in/and the Middle Ages -- 39. Early (modern) empires: The political ideology of conceptual domination -- 40. Europe in Historical International Relations -- 41. Africa and international history -- 42. International order in East Asia -- 43. Linking up the Ottoman Empire with IR's timeline -- 44. Latin America: Between liminality and agency in HistoricalInternational Relations -- PART V: Approaches -- 45. International Relations in the archive: Uses of sources and historiography -- 46. History and memory: Narratives, micropolitics, and crises -- 47. How to do the history of international thought? -- 48. Global histories: Connections and circulations in Historical International Relations -- 49. Historical practices: Recovering a Durkheimian tradition -- 50. Quantitative approaches: Towards comparative and trans-regionalapproaches in Historical International Relations -- 51. Conceptual history in International Relations: From ideologyto social theory? -- 52. Historical periods and the act of periodisation -- PART VI: Afterword -- 53. Afterword: Ahead to the past -- Index.

This handbook presents a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview of the field of Historical International Relations (HIR). It summarizes existing contributions and central themes, approaches and methodologies that have driven the development of HIR, providing a sense of the diversity and research dynamics in the field.

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