The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations (Oxford Handbooks)

Historical approaches to the study of world politics have always been a major part of the academic discipline of International Relations, and there has recently been a resurgence of scholarly interest in this area. This Oxford Handbook examines the past and present of the intersection between history and IR, and looks to the future by laying out new questions and directions for research. Seeking to transcend well-worn disciplinary debates between historians and IR scholars, the Handbook asks authors from both fields to engage with the central themes of 'modernity' and 'granularity'. Modernity is one of the basic organising categories of speculation about continuity and discontinuity in the history of world politics, but one that is increasingly questioned for privileging one kind of experience and marginalizing others. The theme of granularity highlights the importance of how decisions about the scale and scope of historical research in IR shape what can be seen, and how one sees it. Together, these themes provide points of affinity across the wide range of topics and approaches presented here. The Handbook is organized into four parts. The first, 'Readings', gives a state-of-the-art analysis of numerous aspects of the disciplinary encounter between historians and IR theorists. Thereafter, sections on 'Practices', 'Locales', and 'Moments' offer a wide variety of perspectives, from the longue durée to the ephemeral individual moment, and challenge many conventional ways of defining the contexts of historical enquiry about international relations. Contributors come from a range of academic backgrounds, and present a diverse array of methodological and philosophical ideas, as well as their various historical interests. The Oxford Handbooks of International Relations is a twelve-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and innovative engagements with the principal sub-fields of International Relations. The series as a whole is under the General Editorship of Christian Reus-Smit of the University of Queensland and Duncan Snidal of the University of Oxford, with each volume edited by specialists in the field. The series both surveys the broad terrain of International Relations scholarship and reshapes it, pushing each sub-field in challenging new directions. Following the example of Reus-Smit and Snidal's original Oxford Handbook of International Relations, each volume is organized around a strong central thematic by scholars drawn from different perspectives, reading its sub-field in an entirely new way, and pushing scholarship in challenging new directions. Cover Series The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations Copyright Contents List of Contributors PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Modernity and Granularity in History and International Relations PART II READINGS 2. Origins, Histories, and the Modern International 3. Historical Realism 4. Liberal Progressivism and International History 5. Historical Sociology in International Relations 6. Global History and International Relations 7. International Relations and Intellectual History 8. Gender, History, and International Relations 9. Postcolonial Histories of International Relations 10. International Relations Theory and the Practice of International History 11. Global Sources of International Thought PART III PRACTICES 12. State, Territoriality, and Sovereignty 13. Diplomacy 14. Empire 15. Barbarism and Civilization 16. Race and Racism 17. Religion, History, and International Relations 18. Human Rights 19. The Diplomacy of Genocide 20. War and History in World Politics 21. Nationalism 22. Interpolity Law 23. Regulating Commerce 24. Development 25. Governing Finance 26. Revolution PART IV LOCALES (SPACIAL, TEMPORAL, CULTURAL) 27. The ‘Premodern’ World 28. Modernity and Modernities in International Relations 29. The ‘West’ in International Relations 30. The Eighteenth Century 31. The Long Nineteenth Century 32. The Pre-​Colonial African State System 33. The ‘Americas’ in the History of International Relations 34. ‘Asia’ in the History of International Relations 35. The ‘International’ and the ‘Global’ in International History PART V MOMENTS 36. The Fall of Constantinople 37. The Peace of Westphalia 38. The Seven Years’ War 39. The Haitian Revolution 40. The Congress of Vienna 41. The Revolutions of 1848 42. The Indian Uprising of 1857 43. The Berlin and Hague Conferences 44. The First World War and Versailles 45. Sykes–​Picot 46. World War Two and San Francisco 47. The Bandung Conference 48. Facing Nuclear War: Luck, Learning, and the Cuban Missile Crisis PART VI CONCLUSION 49. History and the International: Time, Space, Agency, and Language Index