Scott G. Nelson is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Nevzat Soguk is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa and Adjunct Professor of Global Studies at RMIT University, Australia.

• 1: Introduction: The Measure of Modern Theory in World Politics; I: Theoretical Interventions; 2: Ever Since the Days of Thucydides: On the Textual Origins of IR Theory; 3: Appropriating Adam Smith: Affirmation and Contestation in Discourses of Political Economy 1; 4: Marx and Materiality: “International Relations” as Embedded Efficiencies and Emergencies 1; 5: No International Theory, but What about Transformation? A Critical Reading of Martin Wight and Raya Dunayevskaya; 6: Hannah Arendt and the Geopolitics of Ecology; 7: Critical Spirits/Realist Specters: Some Hypotheses on the Spectro-Poetics of International Relations; II: Security, Representation, and Subjectivity; 8: The Centrality of Tabloid Geopolitics: Western Discourses of Terror and the Defacing of the Other; 9: Writing from the Edge; 10: The Presence of War: “Here and Elsewhere” 1; 11: Territorializing the Soul: The Geopolitics of Subjectivity 1; 12: Return of the Oppressed: Recognition, Violence, and the Mediation of Estrangement; 13: The Achievements of Feminism in IR; III: The Analytics of World Politics; 14: Between U.S. Imperialism and “Empire”: World Politics and the Globalization of Late Capitalist Subjectivity 1; 15: “Beyond” the International: The Immanence of the Global; 16: Interdisciplining Global Thinking; 17: The (Human) Subject of Security: Beyond the Biopolitics of Resilience; 18: Melancholia, Realism, and International Relations; 19: Beyond Dualism: Expanded Understandings of Religion and Global Justice 1; 20: The Paradox of Crisis and the Importance of Being Disinterested; 21: Constructivism, Archaeology, and Humanitarian Intervention: A Reflection on Method; IV: Virtual Communities; 22: What Would a Global Civic Order Look Like? A Perspective from Islamic History 1; 23: Cosmopolitan Theory and World Politics: An Argument for Cosmopolitan Realism; 24: The Last Frontier: Contemporary Peregrinations over the Borders of International Relations; 25: Nationalism, Violence, and Globalization: Reflections on Gandhi's Political Thought; Epilogue: Political Judgment in International Relations Theory

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