Abstract (may include machine translation)
What is the status of politics in International Relations (IR)? Is it a manifold of political activities in the world or a single activity of ordering the world? What is the relation between world-order and world-politics? The article examines three recent contributions to various approaches within IR and highlights the distinction, implicitly present in them all: between the activities of world-governing and world-politics. Further, it is suggested that the question of politics constitutes the Outside of contemporary IR, explicit engagement with which, by going beyond IR towards International Political Theory, is both necessary and inevitable.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 63-76 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Journal of International Relations and Development |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 1 |
State | Published - 2002 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Agency
- Change
- Continuity
- Freedom
- Languages
- Metaphors
- Order
- Politics
- Rules
- Structures