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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
About the Editor and Contributors viii
1 Unpacking Concepts 1
Felix Berenskoetter
CLAIMS 21
2 Power 23
Stefano Guzzini
3 Security 41
Holger Stritzel and Juha A. Vuori
4 Rationality 57
Annette Freyberg-Inan
5 Identity 73
Richard Ned Lebow
CONDITIONS 89
6 War 91
Antoine Bousquet
7 Peace 107
Oliver P. Richmond and Felix Berenskoetter
8 Anarchy 125
Alex Prichard
9 Society 142
Oliver Kessler and Benjamin Herborth
10 Capitalism 157
Benno Teschke and Frido Wenten
SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE 181
11 Sovereignty 183
Tanja Aalberts
vi CONCEPTS IN WORLD POLITICS
12 Hegemony 200
Alejandro Colás
13 Democracy 217
Piki Ish-Shalom
14 Religion 233
Maria Birnbaum
MODES OF TRANSFORMATION 251
15 Revolution 253
Rahul Rao
16 Intervention 271
David Chandler
17 Integration 288
Thomas Diez
18 Globalization 304
Stephan Stetter
Index 321
Acknowledgements
This volume has its origin in a meeting I had with Natalie Aguilera, editor at SAGE,
during the BISA conference in Manchester in April 2011. It was one of those conversa-
tions academics have with publishers about where they see the discipline heading. At
one point I mentioned that much of my teaching at SOAS revolved around concepts
and how, in my view, there was little material in IR dedicated to concepts aimed at
students. When Natalie followed up a year later, I began to see the contours of a pro-
ject. A successful application to the International Studies Association (ISA) for a
Venture Workshop Grant on Concept Analysis enabled me to organize two workshops
in Toronto and London in 2014, which eventually led to this volume.
The journey was enjoyable but also hard work, and I am grateful to a number of
institutions and people for their support. The ISA grant was crucial for getting
the project off the ground and Laura Gottschalk helped with the organization of the
Toronto workshop. At SOAS, the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences and the
Department of Politics and International Studies provided financial support for
the London workshop, with Nadiya Ali providing valuable assistance. My contacts at
SAGE, especially Natalie, Amy Jarrold, and Katie Forsythe were fantastic to work
with, as they competently and cheerfully shepherded the project towards and through
the production process. Alexej Ulbricht skillfully compiled the index.
And, of course, I thank the contributors for joining and believing in the project. This
was a collective endeavor and I am grateful for their insights, efforts and patience dur-
ing many rounds of revisions. Their chapters bring this book to life. My deepest
gratitude goes to my partner Caroline, who supported me in various ways, not least by
tolerating me working long hours on too many occasions. Our son Hugo was born
when I started this project; now it is done and, well, he likes the cover. So I dedicate
this book to him, with love.
F. B.
London, April 2016
About the Editor
and Contributors
Tanja Aalberts is Senior Researcher at Transnational Legal Studies, VU Amsterdam
and co-director of the Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law. Her fields of inter-
est are International Relations theory, international legal theory and international
political sociology, and her research focuses on the interplay between law and politics
in practices of global governance. She is co-editor of The Power of Legality: Practices
of International Law and their Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and has
published in inter alia the European Journal of International Relations, Review of
International Studies, and Millennium. She is founder and series editor of the
Routledge book series on the Politics of Transnational Law, and editor for the Leiden
Journal of International Law.
Felix Berenskoetter is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Relations
at SOAS, University of London. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics
and Political Science (LSE) and specialises in international theory and concepts, in
particular friendship, identity, power, security, peace, and time; as well as German for-
eign policy, European security and transatlantic relations. He has published articles in
various journals, including International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies
and European Journal of International Relations and co-edited Power in World
Politics (Routledge, 2007). Felix is a former editor of Millennium: Journal of
International Studies, founder and former chair of the ISA Theory Section, and cur-
rently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Global Security Studies.
Maria Birnbaum is Research Associate on the ERC-funded project “ReligioWest” at
the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and a post-doctoral fellow at
the University of Oslo. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the
European University Institute. Her work focuses on the international politics of
religion and culture as well as different forms and critiques of recognition in inter-
national politics, especially in relation to the colonial history of British India and
Palestine. Recent publications include ‘Emerging International Subjects: The Royal
“Peel” Commission, Palestine Partition and the Establishment of Religious
Difference at the United Nations’, in: Stensvold (ed.) Religion, State and the United
Nations, (Routledge, 2016); ‘Exclusive Pluralism’, in: Stack et al. (eds.) Religion as
a Category of Governance and Sovereignty, (Brill, 2015). Current projects include
Non-Representational Agency in International Relations and Traveling Knowledge:
The Connected Histories of Pakistan and Israel.
AbouT ThE EdiTor And ConTribuTors ix
Antoine Bousquet is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Birkbeck College,
University of London. His main research interests are concerned with the entangled rela-
tionship of war and society, the history and philosophy of science and technology, and
social and political theory in the digital age. He is the author of The Scientific Way of
Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity (Hurst Publishers, 2009) and
has published various articles in a range of peer-reviewed journals. He is currently complet-
ing a second monograph on the logistics of military perception entitled The Martial Gaze.
David Chandler is Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics and
International Relations, University of Westminster, London. He is the founding editor of
the journal Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses; his latest books
are Resilience: The Governance of Complexity (Routledge, 2014) and The Neoliberal
Subject: Resilience, Adaptation and Vulnerability (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
Alejandro Colás is Reader in International Relations at Birkbeck College, University of
London where he directs the MSc in International Security and Global Governance. He
is author of Empire (Polity Press, 2007) and co-editor with Bryan Mabee of Mercenaries,
Pirates, Bandits and Empires: Private Violence in Historical Context (Hurst, 2011).
Alex has published on issues such as jihadist terrorism in Spain, American imperialism,
Islamism in North Africa and cosmopolitan solidarity in International Affairs, the
European Journal of International Relations, Development & Change and the Review
of International Studies.
Thomas Diez is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the
University of Tübingen and President of the European International Studies Association
(EISA) 2015-7. From 1997 to 2000, he was Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Peace
Research Institute and subsequently taught at the University of Birmingham. Among his
publications are The Securitisation of Climate Change (Palgrave, 2016), Key Concepts
in International Relations (co-author, Sage 2011), and European Integration Theory
(Oxford University Press, 2009). In September 2009, he received the Anna Lindh Award
for his contribution to the field of European Foreign and Security Policy Studies.
Annette Freyberg-Inan teaches International and European Politics and Political
Economy as well as Social Science Methodology at the University of Amsterdam and
is a member of the research program on Political Economy and Transnational
Governance at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research. Her recent books
include Human Beings in International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2015),
with Daniel Jacobi; Evaluating Progress in International Relations: How Do You
Know?! (Routledge, 2016), with Ewan Harrison and Patrick James; and Growing
Together, Growing Apart: Turkey and the European Union Today (Nomos, 2016), with
Olaf Leisse and Mehmet Bardakci. She chairs the Theory Section of the International
Studies Associations and has since 2012 co-edited the Journal of International
Relations and Development.
Stefano Guzzini is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies,
Professor at Uppsala University and at PUC-Rio de Janeiro. His research focuses on
