After the Globe, Before the World

R. B. J. (Rob) Walker is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is also Professor of International Relations at Keele University in the UK. He is the long-term Editor of the journal Alternatives: Local, Global, Political, and the Co-Editor of the new journal IPS: International Political Sociology, based at Sciences-Po in Paris. He is the author of two books, editor or co-editor of many other books and special issues of journals, and has published seventy or so major articles and book chapters.

• 1. Prelude  2. Political, International, Theoretical  3. The Politics of Escape  4. Sovereignties, Origins, Limits  5. Split Finitudes Seductive Hierachies  6. Politics on the Line

'Rob Walker’s After the Globe, Before the World is a radical text in the best sense of the word. It explores the roots of the international studies discipline, rethinks those aspects of the political theory canon on which the discipline’s traditional conceits have relied, and proceeds to articulate a reconceptualization of the state-world relationship. The work is the most important intervention in international studies/international relations thinking in decades. Any scholar who would presume to treat global politics as it is developing in this millennium must come to terms with Walker’s challenge.' - Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i, USA'In this profound meditation on global relations and the world to come, Walker extricates politics from the legacy of Plato and Euclid. There can be no ‘essentialized differences’. No sovereign binary of presence and absence. No ‘simple move’ from here to there.' - Nicholas Onuf, Florida International University'Walker’s desire to depart from what he perceives to be a trend of statist takes on the transition from a politics of the international to a politics of the world provides an intriguing alternative to other literatures dealing with similar issues and those who do engage with his arguments and opinions will be richly rewarded.' - In-Spire Journal of Law, Politics and Societies, Vol. 5, No. 1 – 2010, 102