Henrik Breitenbauch is Senior Researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

International Relations in France. Writing between discipline and state is definitely worth reading, mostly for the original approach the author develops when coupling the historical sociology of the sociogenesis of the state with a political sociology of the legitimate forms of expressions for the study of the formation of a particular domain of knowledge, namely IR in France.- Philippe Bonditti, University of KentThere is much of interest in this volume and much that can be learned. It is a peephole to the world of IRT in the ‘Other’ which little by little is being translated so that IRT will be less parochial and the better for it.- AJR Groom, University of Kent

• 1. Introduction 2. Theory: Legitimate Forms of Expression in French IR 3. Origins, Arguments and Less Lego: What French IR Looks Like 4. Shun the Blunt: Dissertational Patterns in French IR 5. Cartesian State Practice: Why the French Write like They Do 6. Conclusion: What the French Case Can Teach IR – Inside and Beyond the West

Henrik Breitenbauch is Senior Researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

International Relations in France. Writing between discipline and state is definitely worth reading, mostly for the original approach the author develops when coupling the historical sociology of the sociogenesis of the state with a political sociology of the legitimate forms of expressions for the study of the formation of a particular domain of knowledge, namely IR in France.- Philippe Bonditti, University of KentThere is much of interest in this volume and much that can be learned. It is a peephole to the world of IRT in the ‘Other’ which little by little is being translated so that IRT will be less parochial and the better for it.- AJR Groom, University of Kent

• 1. Introduction 2. Theory: Legitimate Forms of Expression in French IR 3. Origins, Arguments and Less Lego: What French IR Looks Like 4. Shun the Blunt: Dissertational Patterns in French IR 5. Cartesian State Practice: Why the French Write like They Do 6. Conclusion: What the French Case Can Teach IR – Inside and Beyond the West

Henrik Breitenbauch is Senior Researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

International Relations in France. Writing between discipline and state is definitely worth reading, mostly for the original approach the author develops when coupling the historical sociology of the sociogenesis of the state with a political sociology of the legitimate forms of expressions for the study of the formation of a particular domain of knowledge, namely IR in France.- Philippe Bonditti, University of KentThere is much of interest in this volume and much that can be learned. It is a peephole to the world of IRT in the ‘Other’ which little by little is being translated so that IRT will be less parochial and the better for it.- AJR Groom, University of Kent

• 1. Introduction 2. Theory: Legitimate Forms of Expression in French IR 3. Origins, Arguments and Less Lego: What French IR Looks Like 4. Shun the Blunt: Dissertational Patterns in French IR 5. Cartesian State Practice: Why the French Write like They Do 6. Conclusion: What the French Case Can Teach IR – Inside and Beyond the West