Historical Sociology in International Relations: Open Society, Research Programme and Vocation
@article{Lawson2007HistoricalSI, title={Historical Sociology in International Relations: Open Society, Research Programme and Vocation}, author={George Lawson}, journal={International Politics}, year={2007}, volume={44}, pages={343-368} }
Over the last 20 years, historical sociology has become an increasingly conspicuous part of the broader field of International Relations (IR) theory, with advocates making a series of interventions in subjects as diverse as the origins and varieties of international systems over time and place, to work on the co-constitutive relationship between the international realm and state–society relations in the processes of radical change. However, even as historical sociology in IR (HSIR) has produced…
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