Historiographical Investigations in International Relations (The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought)

"This book critically investigates the historiography of International Relations. For the past fifteen years, the field has witnessed the development of a strong interest in the history of the discipline. The chapters in this edited volume, written by some of the field's preeminent disciplinary historians, all manifest the best of an innovative and exciting generation of scholarship on the history of the discipline of International Relations. One of the objectives of this volume is to take stock of the historical turn. Yet this volume is not simply a stock-taking exercise, as it also intends to identify the limitations and blind spots of the recent historiographical literature. The chapters consider a range of diverse thinkers and examine their impact on understanding various dimensions of the field's history."-- Provided by publisher Foreword 6 Acknowledgments 9 Contents 11 Notes on Contributors 13 Chapter 1: Introduction 16 References 26 Chapter 2: Writing the World (Remix) 30 Introduction 30 Disciplining International Relations 32 Beyond Disciplinary History 38 The World as Laboratory: Knowledge and Performance 45 Social Science as Way of Life? Subcultures and Spiritual Exercises 50 Conclusions 53 References 54 Chapter 3: Aesthetic Realism 66 The Aesthetics of Autobiography 68 Method, Practice, Politics 70 Method 70 Pedagogy, Practice, and Politics 79 The Realist Gambit 82 Against Positivism 83 The Aesthetic State 84 Conclusion 87 References 89 Chapter 4: How Should We Approach the History of International Thought? 94 History: Methods and Narratives 96 Approaches to the History of International Thought 100 The Historical Turn and the Study of Origins in IR 104 References 108 Chapter 5: Threads and Boundaries: Rethinking the Intellectual History of International Relations 111 Introduction 111 Collecting the Threads 114 Drawing Boundaries 123 Conclusion 134 References 137 Chapter 6: Internalism Versus Externalism in the Disciplinary History of International Relations 140 Internal Discursive History 142 My Critics 148 New Historiography 151 Conclusion 157 References 158 Chapter 7: What’s at Stake in Doing (Critical) IR/IPE Historiography? The Imperative of Critical Historiography 162 Introduction 162 From the Inevitability to the Imperative of (Critical) Historiography in IR and IPE 164 A Key Collective Finding of IR/IPE Historiography: The Racist/Eurocentric Originary Foundations of IR and IPE 168 Critical Historiography as a Challenge to the Disciplinary Borders and Identity of IR and IPE 171 Revisionist Historiography: Exploring Its Impact upon, and Challenge to, IR 174 Revisionist Historiography: Exploring Its Challenge to the Way We Teach IR and Write Its Textbooks 178 References 179 Chapter 8: The English School’s Histories and International Relations 183 Introduction 183 The Crisis of Developmental Historicism 185 The Impact of War 186 The Rise of the Modernists 188 Early English School Responses 190 Technical History and the Geometry of International Relations 191 Historical Interpretation and International Relations Theory 197 Ideas and Institutions in the Later English School 202 Conclusion 205 References 207 Chapter 9: The Matter with History and Making History Matter 214 Introduction 214 Meta-practices 215 The Kuhnian Project: The History of Science 218 Social Science, Philosophy, and History 222 History and Philosophy of Social Science 224 Representing the Past: Inside and Outside 227 References 232 Index 233 Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction (Nicolas Guilhot)....Pages 1-14 Writing the World (Remix) (Duncan Bell)....Pages 15-50 Aesthetic Realism (Michael C. Williams)....Pages 51-78 How Should We Approach the History of International Thought? (Lucian M. Ashworth)....Pages 79-95 Threads and Boundaries: Rethinking the Intellectual History of International Relations (Or Rosenboim)....Pages 97-125 Internalism Versus Externalism in the Disciplinary History of International Relations (Brian C. Schmidt)....Pages 127-148 What’s at Stake in Doing (Critical) IR/IPE Historiography? The Imperative of Critical Historiography (John M. Hobson)....Pages 149-169 The English School’s Histories and International Relations (Ian Hall)....Pages 171-201 The Matter with History and Making History Matter (John G. Gunnell)....Pages 203-221 Back Matter ....Pages 223-226 Annotation This book critically investigates the historiography of International Relations. For the past fifteen years, the field has witnessed the development of a strong interest in the history of the discipline. The chapters in this edited volume, written by some of the field's preeminent disciplinary historians, all manifest the best of an innovative and exciting generation of scholarship on the history of the discipline of International Relations. One of the objectives of this volume is to take stock of the historical turn. Yet this volume is not simply a stock-taking exercise, as it also intends to identify the limitations and blind spots of the recent historiographical literature. The chapters consider a range of diverse thinkers and examine their impact on understanding various dimensions of the field's history