Inside/outside: - Internacional Relations as Political Theory

R. B. J. Walker

Cambridge University Press

1995

233 páginas

7h 46m

ISBN-10: 0521421195

In this book Rob Walker offers an original analysis of the relationship between twentieth-century theories of internacional relations, and the political theory of civil society since the early modern period. He views theories of internacional relations both as an ideological expression of the modern state, and as a clear indication of the difficulties of thinking about a world politics characterized by profound spatiotemporal accelerations. International relations theories should be seen, the author argues, more as aspects of comtemporary world politics than as explanations of contmporary world politics. These are examined in the light of recent debates about modernity and post-modernity, sovereignty and political identity, and the limits of modern social and political theory. This book is a major contribution to the field of citical international relations, and ill be of interest to social and political theorists and political scientists, as well as students and scholars of international relations.