The SAGE Handbook of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on the Editors and Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I-The Inward Gaze: Introductory Reflections -- 1-The Struggle for the Soul of International Relations: Fragments of a Collective Journey -- 2-Crafting the Reflexive Gaze: Knowledge of Knowledge in the Social Worlds of International Relations -- Part II-Imagining the International, Acknowledging the Global -- 3-From the Internationalto the Global? -- 4-Coloring the Global: Race, Colonialism and Internationalism -- 5-Liberal International Political Economy as Colonial Science -- 6-International Relations as a Historical Social Science -- 7-International Relations and the Gendered International -- 8-Beyond the 'Religious Turn': International Relations as Political Theology -- 9-Between 'East' and 'West': Travelling Theories, Travelling Imaginations -- 10-International Relations and the Rise of Asia: A New 'Moral Imagination' for World Politics? -- 11-Confucian Pacifism or Confucian Confusion? -- 12-The Challenges of 'Contextualism' -- 13-Imagining International Relations Through Alternative Worlds -- Part III-The Search for (an) Identity -- 14-The Origins of International Relations: Idealists, Administrators and the Institutionalization of a New Science -- 15-'Canon' Fodder: The Founding Fathers, Classics and 'isms' of International Relations -- 16-The Function of Myths in International Relations: Discipline and Identity -- 17-Identity and Theory: Towards Sociological Explanations of 'Schools' in International Relations -- 18-International Relations' Crystal Ball: Prediction and Forecasting -- 19-The Problem of Social Utility: International Relations and the 'Policy Gap' -- 20-A Fear of Foundations? -- 21-After First Principles: The Sociological Turn in International Relations as Disciplinary Crisis.