As one of the key concepts in International Relations (IR), the relative amnesia around the
origin and effects of sovereignty which lasted until the mid-1990s is quite striking …

As global governance appears to become more inclusive and democratic, many scholars
argue that international institutions act as motors of expansion and democratization. The …

Whether inspired by the Frankfurt School or Antonio Gramsci, the impact of critical theory on
the study of international relations has grown considerably since its advent in the early …

Who has the right to wage war? The answer to this question constitutes one of the most
fundamental organizing principles of any international order. Under contemporary …

IR scholars have always invoked history as a valuable resource for understanding the
present. However, the question of how should we go about investigating and interpreting the …

An enduring question for social scientists concerns the origins of the system of states we
currently live in. In this review paper, we aim to clarify the terms of the discussion by …

Scholarship drawing from a wide array of perspectives including field theoretical and
functional differentiation approaches has shed increasing light on the sectoral dimensions of …

While the discipline of International Relations (IR) has a long tradition of celebrating 'great
thinkers' and appropriating their ideas for contemporary theories, it has rarely accounted for …

This article proposes an understanding of critical international theory (CIT) as an historical
rather than philosophical mode of knowledge. To excavate this historical mode of theorizing …

Just as the contemporary global structure is a product of nineteenth-century economic and
political developments, namely, industrial capitalism and global empires dominated by …