Reflexivity and International Relations

Positionality, Critique, and Practice

Jack L Amoureux, Brent J. Steele

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781138789227
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317656012
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Globalisation
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Reflexivity has become a common term in IR scholarship with a variety of uses and meanings. Yet for such an important concept and referent, understandings of reflexivity have been more assumed rather than developed by those who use it, from realists and constructivists to feminists and post-structuralists.

This volume seeks to provide the first overview of reflexivity in international relations theory, offering students and scholars a text that :

• provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the current reflexivity literature
• develops important insights into how reflexivity can play a broader role in IR theory
• pushes reflexivity in new, productive directions, and offers more nuanced and concrete specifications of reflexivity
• moves reflexivity beyond the scholar and the scholarly field to political practice
• Formulates practices of reflexivity

Drawing together the work of many of the key scholars in the field into one volume, this work will be essential reading for all students of international relations theory.

Amoureux and Steele have put together a superb collection of essays which simultaneously exhibits the coherence of a single thematic and great originality in the individual contributions. Reflections by academics confronting their own scholarship creates an honest, insightful, and arresting book. This volume provides anyone interested in the craft of good IR scholarship with an essential starting point.

Professor Anthony F. Lang, Jr, University of St Andrews, UK

This is an exciting book that should provoke, disturb, stimulate and resonate with scholars’ thoughts and experiences in writing international relations. In thoroughly dissecting both the most obvious and the most intimate aspects of reflexivity, the authors reveal the roughness as well as the eloquence that can emanate from our attempts to grasp the meaning of our selves and our scholarship.

Professor Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine, USA

Reflexivity and International Relations

Reflexivity has become a common term in international relations (IR) scholarship with a variety of uses and meanings. Yet, for such an important concept and referent, understandings of reflexivity have been more assumed than developed by those who use it, from realists and constructivists to feminists and post-structuralists.

This volume seeks to provide the first overview of reflexivity in international relations theory, offering students and scholars a text that:

• provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the current reflexivity literature;
• develops important insights into how reflexivity can play a broader role in IR theory;
• pushes reflexivity in new, productive directions, and offers more nuanced and concrete specifications of reflexivity;
• moves reflexivity beyond the scholar and the scholarly field to political practice;
• formulates practices of reflexivity.

Drawing together the work of many of the key scholars in the field into one volume, this work will be essential reading for all students of international relations theory.

Jack L. Amoureux is a Teacher-Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. He previously taught at the American University in Washington, DC, USA.

Brent J. Steele is Francis D. Wormuth Presidential Chair and Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, USA.

New International Relations

Edited by Richard Little, University of Bristol, Iver B. Neumann, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway and Jutta Weldes, University of Bristol.

The field of international relations has changed dramatically in recent years. This new series will cover the major issues that have emerged and reflect the latest academic thinking in this particular dynamic area.

International Law, Rights and Politics

Developments in Eastern Europe and the CIS

Rein Mullerson

The Logic of Internationalism

Coercion and accommodation

Kjell Goldmann

Russia and the Idea of Europe

A study in identity and international relations

Iver B. Neumann

The Future of International Relations

Masters in the making?

Edited by Iver B. Neumann and Ole Wæver

Constructing the World Polity

Essays on international institutionalization

John Gerard Ruggie

Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy

The continuing story of a death foretold

Stefano Guzzini

International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order

Beyond international relations theory?

N.J.Rengger

War, Peace and World Orders in European History

Edited by Anja V. Hartmann and Beatrice Heuser

European Integration and National Identity

The challenge of the Nordic states

Edited by Lene Hansen and Ole Wæver

Shadow Globalization, Ethnic Conflicts and New Wars

A political economy of intra-state war

Dietrich Jung

Contemporary Security Analysis and Copenhagen Peace Research

Edited by Stefano Guzzini and Dietrich Jung

Observing International Relations

Niklas Luhmann and world politics

Edited by Mathias Albert and Lena Hilkermeier

Does China Matter? A Reassessment

Essays in memory of Gerald Segal

Edited by Barry Buzan and Rosemary Foot

European Approaches to International Relations Theory

A house with many mansions

Jörg Friedrichs

The Post-Cold War International System

Strategies, institutions and reflexivity

Ewan Harrison

States of Political Discourse

Words, regimes, seditions

Costas M. Constantinou

The Politics of Regional Identity

Meddling with the Mediterranean

Michelle Pace

The Power of International Theory

Reforging the link to foreign policy-making through scientific enquiry

Fred Chernoff

Africa and the North

Between globalization and marginalization

Edited by Ulf Engel and Gorm Rye Olsen

Communitarian International Relations

The epistemic foundations of international relations

Emanuel Adler

Human Rights and World Trade

Hunger in international society

Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez

Liberalism and War

The victors and the vanquished

Andrew Williams

Constructivism and International Relations

Alexander Wendt and his critics

Edited by Stefano Guzzini and Anna Leander

Security as Practice

Discourse analysis and the Bosnian War

Lene Hansen

The Politics of Insecurity

Fear, migration and asylum in the EU

Jef Huysmans

State Sovereignty and Interve...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Frontmatter 1
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter 2
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of contributors
• Series Editors’ Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction—JACK L. AMOUREUX AND BRENT J. STEELE
• PART I Formulating reflexivity for scholarship and politics
• PART II Reflexive scholars
• PART III Reflexivity and world politics
• Conclusion—IVER B. NEUMANN
• Index