Academic Articles & Research Papers

Political theory and public policy

Some say that public policy can be made without the benefit of theory that it emerges, instead, through trial-and-error. Others see genuine philosophical issues in public affairs but try to resolve them through fanciful examples. Both, argu...

Making Political Science Matter

Making Political Science Matter brings together a number of prominent scholars to discuss the state of the field of Political Science. In particular, these scholars are interested in ways to reinvigorate the discipline by connecting it to p...

Political Theory, Political Science, and Politics

Political Theory and Political Science

The too-often unhappy 'marriage' of political theory and political science has long been a source of anguish for both partners. Should this troubled partnership be dissolved? Or might this marriage yet be saved? Ball answers the former ques...

The Political Science of Federalism

This article highlights political science's interest in the distribution of authority between federal and state governments. The authority boundaries are studied (a) as mechanism design problems, where authority is allocated optimally to ac...

Political Theory, Political Science and the End of Civic Engagement

Within a span of fifteen years civic engagement has become a cottage industry in political science and political theory, but the term has now outlived its usefulness and exemplifies Giovanni Sartori's worry about conceptual “stretching.” Th...

Political Theory and Political Science

Like Rachel, Jacob's beloved but still childless bride, who asked herself and the Lord each morning, “Am I?,” or “Can I?,” so presidents of this Association on these annual occasions intermittently ask, “Are we a science?,” or “Can we becom...

A New Handbook of Political Science

Abstract Includes contributions from over 40 political scientists from around the world and surveys developments in the discipline over the past 20 years. Discusses each of the main sub‐disciplines: political institutions, political behavio...

Annual Review of Political Science

The Annual Review of Political Science, in publication since 1998, covers significant developments in the field of Political Science including political theory and philosophy, international relations, political economy, political behavior, ...

The Oxford Handbook of Political Science

Abstract This handbook is a schematic guide and a sampler on political science. It first provides an overview of the state of political science as a discipline before turning to a discussion of political theory and its relationship with the...

Archaeology and Assemblage

Assemblage is a concept common to a number of academic disciplines, most notably archaeology and art, but also geology and palaeontology. Archaeology can claim a special link to the term assemblage, though novel approaches to the concept of...

Identity and International Relations

Drawing on Kant and Hegel, debates in political theory and international relations generally assume that an identity cannot be created without the simultaneous creation and negative stereotypy of an `other'. Figures such as Schmitt and Hunt...

Israel, Iran, and Peace in the Middle East: An Analysis of Identity Formation, Enemy Construction, and the Logic of Expansionism

Introduction This article offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving antagonism between Israel and Iran, integrating political-sociological, historical, and geopolitical perspectives. While the immediate catalyst for this inquiry is Is...

International relations theory today

The Contributors. Preface. 1. Self--Images of a Discipline: a Genealogy of International Relations Theory: Steve Smith. 2. The End of the Cold War and International Relations: Some Analytic and Theoretical Conclusions: Fred Halliday. 3. Int...

International relations, political theory and the problem of order: beyond international relations theory?

At the turn of the millennium, and now after the fall of the Berlin wall, the best way to map the trajectories of contemporary international relations is hotly contested. Is the world more or less ordered than during the cold war? Are we on...

Political Theory and International Relations

Posthuman International Relations

About the authors Erika Cudworth is senior lecturer in international politics and sociology at the University of East London. Her research interests are in political theory, broadly conceived, particularly feminisms, ecologisms and complexi...

Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations

Acknowledgements - Preface - PART 1: FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL THEORY - The Case for International Political Theory - Men and Citizens in International Relations - Internal and External Concepts of Obligation in the Theory of I...

Inside/outside: international relations as political theory

In this book Rob Walker offers an original analysis of the relationship between twentieth-century theories of international relations, and the political theory of civil society since the early modern period. He views theories of internation...

The Restructuring of International Relations Theory

In this book Mark Neufeld argues that the predominance of the positivist approach to the study of international politics has meant that theory committed to human emancipation remains poorly developed. He suggests that International Relation...