Historiographical Investigations in International Relations

Brian C. Schmidt is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, Canada. He is the author of The First Great Debate in International Relations (2012), Imperialism and Internationalism in the Discipline of International Relations edited with David Long (2005), and The Political Discourse of Anarchy: A Disciplinary History of International Relations (1998). He is the co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought series.  Nicolas Guilhot is Research Professor at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), France, and member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His most recent publications include After the Enlightenment: Political Realism and International Relations in the mid-20th Century (2017) and The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory (2011).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Writing the World (Remix).- 3. Aesthetic Realism.- 4. How Should We Approach the History of International Thought?.- 5. Threads and Boundaries: rethinking the intellectual history of International Relations.- 6. Internalism Versus Externalism in the Disciplinary History of International Relations.- 7. What’s at Stake in doing (Critical) IR/IPE Historiography? The Imperative of Critical Historiography.- 8. The English School’s Histories and International Relations.- 9. The Matter with History and Making History Matter.