We hope this site will become a repository for a range of texts relating to Historical Sociology and International Relations. Many journals now allow authors to post their work online, either in pre-publication format or in finalised form once a certain period has elapsed. If you have published articles or books relevant to the work of the Group, please send copies to Paul Kirby for inclusion in this list.
This list is also available in alphabetical format.
1. Historical Sociology and International Relations: Some General Texts
· Hobson, John M., George Lawson and Justin Rosenberg (2010) ‘Historical Sociology’ (ISA Compendium Project Encyclopedia Entry)
· Lawson, George (2007) ‘Historical Sociology in International Relations: Open Society, Research Programme and Vocation’
· Lawson, George (2006) ‘The Promise of Historical Sociology in International Relations’
· Lawson, George and Robbie Shilliam (2010) ‘Sociology and International Relations: Legacies and Prospects’
· Rosenberg, Justin (2006) ‘Why is There No International Historical Sociology?’
· Rosenberg, Justin (1994) ‘The International Imagination: IR Theory and ‘Classical Social Analysis”
2. Theoretical Debates
History and Theory
· Hobson, John M. and George Lawson (2008) ‘What is History in International Relations?’
· Lapointe, Thierry and Frédérick Guillaume Dufour (2011) ‘Assessing the Historical Turn in IR: An Anatomy of Second Wave Historical Sociology’ (online first copy)
· Lawson, George (2010) ‘The Eternal Divide? History and International Relations’ (pre-publication version)
· Teschke, Benno (2011) ‘Advances and Impasses in Fred Halliday’s International Historical Sociology: A Critical Appraisal’
Sovereignty, the State and the State System
· Hobson, John M. (2009) ‘Provincializing Westphalia: The Eastern Origins of Sovereignty’
· Lawson, George (2008) ‘A Realistic Utopia: Nancy Fraser, Cosmopolitanism and the Making of a Just World Order’
· Lawson, George and Robbie Shilliam (2009) ‘Beyond Hypocrisy: Debating the ‘Fact’ and ‘Value’ of Sovereignty in Contemporary World Politics’
· Teschke, Benno (2006) ‘Debating ‘The Myth of 1648’: State Formation, the Interstate System and the Emergence of Capitalism in Europe’
· Teschke, Benno (2005) ‘Bourgeois Revolution, State Formation and the Absence of the International’
· Teschke, Benno (2002) ‘Theorizing the Westphalian System of States: International Relations from Absolutism to Capitalism’
War and Geopolitics
· Anievas, Alex (2011) ’1914 in World Historical Perspective: The Uneven and Combined Origins of the First World War’ (pre-publication version)
· Colás, Alejandro and Bryan Mabee (2010) ‘The Flow and Ebb of Private Seaborne Violence in Global Politics: Lessons from the Atlantic World, 1689-1815′ (from Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits and Empires)
· Teschke, Benno (2011) ‘The Fetish Of Geopolitics: Reply to Gopal Balakrishnan’
· Teschke, Benno (2011) ‘Decisions and Indecisions: Political and Intellectual Receptions of Carl Schmitt’
· Teschke, Benno (2011) ‘Fatal Attraction: A Critique of Carl Schmitt’s International Political and Legal Theory’
· Teschke, Benno (1998) ‘Geopolitical Relations in the European Middle Ages: History and Theory’
· Teschke, Benno and Hannes Lacher (2007) ‘The Changing ‘Logics’ of Capitalist Competition’
Uneven and Combined Development
· Allinson, Jamie and Alex Anievas (2010) ‘Approaching “the International”: Beyond Political Marxism’
· Allinson, Jamie and Alex Anievas (2009) ‘The Uses and Misuses of Uneven and Combined Development’
· Rosenberg, Justin (2010) ‘Basic Problems in the Theory of Uneven and Combined Development II: Unevenness and Political Multiplicity’
· Callinicos, Alex and Justin Rosenberg (2008) ‘Uneven and Combined Development: The Social Relational Substratum of ‘the International’? – An Exchange of Letters’
Eurocentrism and Non-Western Thought
· Bhambra, Gurminder K. (2011) ‘Talking Among Themselves? Weberian and Marxist Historical Sociologies as Dialogues Without ‘Others”
· Bhambra, Gurminder K. (2011) ‘Historical Sociology, Modernity and Postcolonial Critique’
· Bhambra, Gurminder K. (2010) ‘Historical Sociology, International Relations and Connected Histories’
· Hobson, John M. (2007) ‘Reconstructing International Relations Through World History: Oriental Globalization and the Global Dialogic Conception of Inter-Civilizational Relations’
· Shilliam, Robbie (2011) ‘Keskidee Aroha: Translation on the Colonial Stage’
· Shilliam, Robbie (2011) ‘Civilization and the Poetics of Slavery’ (pre-publication version)
3. Empirical Debates
Revolution
· Lawson, George (2005) ‘Negotiated Revolutions: The Prospects for Radical Change in Contemporary World Politics’
· Rosenberg, Justin (1995) ‘Isaac Deutscher and the Lost History of International Relations’
· Teschke, Benno (2005) ‘Bourgeois Revolution, State Formation and the Absence of the International’
Globalisation
· Anievas, Alex (2008) ‘Theories of a Global State: A Critique’
· Rosenberg, Justin (2007) ‘International Relations and the Higher Bullshit: A Reply to the Globalisation Theory Debate’
· Rosenberg, Justin (2005) ‘Globalisation Theory: A Post Mortem’
The Rise and Decline of the West
· Buzan, Barry and George Lawson (2013) ‘The Global Transformation: The Nineteenth Century and the Making of Modern International Relations’ (pre-publication version)
· Lawson, George (2010) ‘The ‘What’, ‘When’ and ‘Where’ of the Global 1989′ (Introduction to The Global 1989:Continuity and Change in World Politics, edited with Chris Armbruster and Michael Cox)
4. Miscellany
· Colás, Alejandro and George Lawson (2010) ‘Fred Halliday: Achievements, Ambivalences, Openings’
· Lawson, George (2006) ‘The Social Sources of Life, the Universe and Everything: A Conversation with Michael Mann’
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