Pondering dramatic endings, probing possible beginnings; or doing politics as usual? (Review essay)

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)63-76
Number of pages14
JournalJournal of International Relations and Development
Volume5
Issue number1
StatePublished - 2002
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Agency
  • Change
  • Continuity
  • Freedom
  • Languages
  • Metaphors
  • Order
  • Politics
  • Rules
  • Structures

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