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International hierarchies and contemporary imperial governance: A tale of three kingdoms 31 May 2013 | 07:56 pm
The growing body of literature on hierarchy in international relations has overlooked instances of contemporary imperial governance. These imperial arrangements constitute a strong test of rationalist...
Market imperative meets normative power: Human rights and European arms transfer policy 31 May 2013 | 07:56 pm
Arms transfers are both an economic necessity for the European arms industry and a potential obstacle for the EU’s emerging normative power role. Nevertheless, research on how well EU members’ arms tr...
The future of critical security studies: Ethics and the politics of security 31 May 2013 | 07:56 pm
‘Critical security studies’ has come to occupy a prominent place within the lexicon of International Relations and security studies over the past two decades. While disagreement exists about the bound...
(Un)Natural and contractual international society: A conceptual inquiry 31 May 2013 | 07:56 pm
This article offers a critical perspective on one of the central concepts of IR and the English School of IR in particular, namely the concept of international society. It argues that the moral agency...
Republican continuities in the Vienna Order and the German Confederation (1815-66) 31 May 2013 | 07:56 pm
This article argues that the German Confederation — deutscher Bund — (1815–66)was a form of rule built on early modern republican political theory. It was a ‘Compound Republic’ form of rule constructe...
The rise of Chinese exceptionalism in international relations 31 May 2013 | 07:56 pm
Although exceptionalism is an important dimension of China’s foreign policy, it has not been a subject of serious scholarly research. This article attempts to identify manifestations of exceptionalism...
Global norms and major state behaviour: The cases of China and the United States 31 May 2013 | 07:56 pm
When do major states conform to or diverge from global behavioural norms? We argue that existing theories find it difficult to explain important aspects of this variation in behaviour and we offer ins...
Redeeming the universal: Postcolonialism and the inner life of Eurocentrism 31 May 2013 | 07:56 pm
This article investigates the limits of postcolonial International Relations’ anti-Eurocentrism through an interrogation of its ambivalent relation with the category of ‘the universal.’ It argues that...
Analysing discourse as a causal mechanism 31 May 2013 | 07:56 pm
Utilising critical realist philosophy of social science, this article contends that discourse may be studied as a causal mechanism in the generation of events — and one relationally connected to mecha...
Locating norm diplomacy: Venue change in international norm negotiations 20 Mar 2013 | 03:12 pm
Venue — the institutional setting in which actors interact — is a critical but neglected factor in international norm creation. This article brings together constructivist and rationalist insights to ...
