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Title page
Copyright
Table of contents
List of abbreviations
About the contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: asking questions of, and about, IR • Synne L. Dyvik, Jan Selby and Rorden Wilkinson
Part One: What’s the point of IR?
1 What’s the point of IR? The international in the invention of humanity • Ken Booth
2 Insecurity redux: the perennial problem of “the point of IR” • Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
3 What’s the point of IR? Or, we’re so paranoid, we probably think this question is about us • Cynthia Weber
4 In defense of IR • Beate Jahn
Part Two: The origins of a discipline
5 Relocating the point of IR in understanding industrial-age global problems • Craig N. Murphy
6 Past as prefigurative prelude: feminist peace activists and IR • Catia C. Confortini
7 Beyond practitioner histories of international relations: or, the stories that professors like to tell (about) themselves • Robert Vitalis
8 How elite networks shape the contours of the discipline and what we might do about it • Inderjeet Parmar
Part Three: Policing the boundaries
9 Be careful what you wish for: positivism and the desire for relevance in the American study of IR • Jennifer Sterling-Folker
10 Don’t fl atter yourself: world politics as we know it is changing and so must disciplinary IR • L.H.M. Ling
11 Indian IR: older and newer orientations • Achin Vanaik
12 Undisciplined IR: thinking without a net • Laura Sjoberg
Part Four: Engaging the world
13 Mind the gap: defi ning and measuring policy engagement in IR • Catherine Weaver
14 IR theory in the Anthropocene: time for a reality check? • Stephanie Lawson
15 UN studies and IR: history, ideas, and problem-solving • Thomas G. Weiss
16 Beyond the “Ivory Tower”? IR in the world • Peter Newell and Anna Stavrianakis
Part Five: Imagining the future
17 Escaping from the prison of political science: what IR offers that other disciplines do not • Justin Rosenberg
18 The future of feminist international relations • Adrienne Roberts
19 A methodological turn long overdue: or, why it is time for critical scholars to cut their losses • Samuel Knafo
20 Subverting the “international”: imagining future as past • Yongjin Zhang
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