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 |
|---|---|
| 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