Human Beings in International Relations

Daniel Jacobi is Research Associate and Lecturer at Goethe University in Frankfurt as well as a Research Associate in the Cluster of Excellence 'Formation of Normative Orders'. Annette Freyberg-Inan is Professor of International Relations at the Technical University Darmstadt and Research Affiliate at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and its program group on 'Political Economy and Transnational Governance'.

• Introduction: human being(s) in international relations Daniel Jacobi and Annette Freyberg-Inan; Part I. International Political Anthropology: 1. Between fear and despair: human nature in realism Annette Freyberg-Inan; 2. 'Human nature' and the paradoxical order of liberalism Stephen J. Rosow; 3. Disciplining human nature: the evolution of American social scientific theorizing Jennifer Sterling-Folker and Jason F. Charrette; 4. The Marxist perspective from 'species-being' to natural justice Chris Brown; 5. In biology we trust: biopolitical science and the elusive self Duncan Bell; 6. Greeks, neuroscience, and international relations Richard Ned Lebow; 7. Constructivism, realism, and the variety of human natures Samuel Barkin; 8. Feminism and the figure of Man Elisabeth Prügl; Part II. International Political Post-Anthropology: 9. Realism, agency, and the politics of nature Colin Wight; 10. A global human condition Mauro J. Caraccioli; 11. Imagining man – forgetting society? Benjamin Herborth; 12. On the social (re)construction of the human in world politics Daniel Jacobi; 13. Observing visions of man Oliver Kessler; 14. Who is acting in international relations? Jan-Hendrik Passoth and Nicholas J. Rowland; Conclusion: toward an International Political (Post-)Anthropology Annette Freyberg-Inan and Daniel Jacobi.

'Human Beings in International Relations is a theoretical treasure trove. Jacobi and Freyberg-Inan make us aware of a remarkable variety of theoretical perspectives on 'thinking the human'. They make those perspectives resonate with or contradict each other, unburying many research paths that must have been there all along, but still await our analysis.' Stefano Guzzini, Danish Institute for International Studies, Uppsala University and Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro