Anarchy and International Relations theory: A reconsideration
Havercroft, J; Prichard, A
Date: 20 July 2017
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Journal
Journal of International Political Theory
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SAGE Publications
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Abstract
In this introduction to the special issue, we undertake a little ground clearing in order to make room in IR for thinking differently about anarchy and world politics. Anarchy’s roots in, and association with social contract theory and the state of nature has unduly narrowed how we might understand the concept and its potential in IR. ...
In this introduction to the special issue, we undertake a little ground clearing in order to make room in IR for thinking differently about anarchy and world politics. Anarchy’s roots in, and association with social contract theory and the state of nature has unduly narrowed how we might understand the concept and its potential in IR. Indeed, such is the consensus in this regard that anarchy is remarkably uncontested, considering its centrality to the field. Looking around, both inside and outside IR, for alternative accounts, we find ample materials for helping us think anew about the nature of and possibilities for politics in anarchy. In the second part of the introduction we show how our contributors develop and expand on these resources and what we hope the special issue brings to IR.
Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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