International Relations and the Problem of Difference

David L. Blaney is Associate Professor of Political Science at Macalester College and Executive Committee Member of the ISA.Naeem Inayatullah is Assistant Professor of Politics at Ithaca College.

• Preface Introduction Part I: Difference in the Constitution of IR 1. The Westphalian Deferral 2. Intimate Indians 3. IR and the Inner Life of Modernization Theory Part. II: Studies in Difference and Contemporary IR 4. IPE as a Culture of Competition 5. Towards an Ethnological IPE 6. Multiple and Overlapping Sovereignties Epilogue

"This is more than a good book-it is an astonishingly good book-beautifully written, persuasively argued an intellectual tour de force in the best sense. It is a treat and a voyage of discovery to read, a wonderful example of critical theory and very probably a modern classic." -- Yale H. Ferguson, Rutgers University