Description This book presents a challenge to the discipline of International relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern origins, and the two centuries of world history that have shaped it.
By tracking the development of thinking about IR, and the practice of world politics, this book shows how they relate to each other across five time periods from nineteenth-century colonialism, through two world wars, the Cold War and decolonization, to twenty-first-.
Description This book presents a challenge to the discipline of International relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern origins, and the two centuries of world history that have shaped it