Historical International Relations
Historical International Relations is a multidisciplinary sub-field of International Relations, concerned with the historical dimensions of states, state-systems and all things international.
As a quarry for data, testing-ground for theory and site of investigation, history has always been one of the unacknowledged partners of the academic discipline of International Relations. Over the last decades, historical scholarship has emerged in its own right in the discipline. This sub-field is closely aligned also with history and historical sociology but puts the emphasis squarely on the historical dimension of international relations.
News about historical ir
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What does foreign policy really mean?
7 Dec 2018This, with other widely used IR concepts, is what Halvard Leira and his project CHOIR team have received funding to explore.
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Publications about historical ir
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Publication
: Academic article
The Intercity Origins of Diplomacy: Consuls, Empires, and the Sea
City diplomacy is a fairly new topic in the study of diplomacy, and, many would argue, a fairly recent empirical phenomenon. A counterpoint to this could be to reference how the alleged origin of diplomacy in Greek antiquity was city-centered, as were the earliest forms of Renaissance diplomacy in... -
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: Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Inter-governmentality: A framework for analysis
This chapter explores the analytical purchase of the governmentality-framework when applied to interactions between polities before the early modern period, what I refer to as inter-governmentality. Starting from the assumptions that: (1) governmentality (historically understood) was always entangled... -
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: Book review
Arjun Chowdhury, The myth of international order: why weak states persist and alternatives to the state fade away
2020A book review of Arjun Chowdhury's 'The Myth of International Order'.
Research projects about historical ir
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Research project
A Conceptual History of International Relations (CHOIR)
2019 - 2023 (Ongoing)The purpose of CHOIR is to investigate taken-for-granted concepts of international relations.
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Research project
Empires, Privateering and the sea (EMPRISE)
2017 - 2021 (Ongoing)EMPRISE studies the role of the importance of power at sea for the formation of empires and states from 1500-1856.