"The ambitious four-volume work Historical International Relations edited by Halvard Leira and Benjamin de Carvalho is an important contribution to the literature on international relations and likely to remain a standard collection on the topic for many years. It is comprehensive, well organized and encompasses many of the classic articles in the field by leading European and American scholars. Each of the volumes should be required reading for anyone who wishes to understand the origins and evolution of theory or practice in the discipline of international relations since the beginning of the 20th century to the present."

• VOLUME ONE: DOING HISTORICAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSPart One: Classic TakesWhy Is There No International Theory? - Martin WightInternational Relations: The Long Road to Theory - Stanley HoffmannInternational Relations and the Relevance of History - Arthur GilbertPart Two: ReconceptualizationsHistory and Structure in the Theory of International Relations - Rob WalkerDiplomatic History and International Relations Theory: Respecting Difference and Crossing Boundaries - Colin Elman and Miriam ElmanThe Pragmatics of International History - Donald PuchalaThe Historical Problem in International Relations - Thomas SmithStill ‘Marking Time’? Text, Discourse and Truth in International History - Patrick FinneyPart Three: Ways of Doing Historical International RelationsOn the Historical Imagination of International Relations: The Case for a ‘Deweyan Reconstruction’ - Jonathan IsacoffWhat’s at Stake in ‘Bringing Historical Sociology Back’ into International Relations? Transcending ‘Chronofetishism’ and ‘Tempocentrism’ in International Relations - John HobsonInternational Relations and the ‘Problem of History’ - Nick Vaughan-WilliamsHistory, Action and Identity: Revisiting the ‘Second’ Great Debate and Assessing Its Importance for Social Theory - Friedrich KratochwilNarrative Explanation and International Relations: Back to Basics - Hidemi SuganamiWhat Is History in International Relations? - John Hobson and George LawsonWhat’s at Stake in the Historical Turn? Theory, Practice and Phronesis in International Relations - David McCourtVOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL THOUGHTPart One: Rethinking International ThoughtThe International Turn in Intellectual History - David ArmitageWhy International Relations Theorists Should Stop Reading Thucydides - David WelchJustus Lipsius, Political Humanism and the Disciplining of 17th Century Statecraft - Halvard LeiraThe Forgotten Prophet: Tom Paine’s Cosmopolitanism and International Relations - Thomas WalkerJustice, Order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) - Alex PritchardPart Two: International Relations before the DisciplineBirth of a Discipline - Robert VitalisOrigins and Originality: IR Scholarship before World War I - Torbjørn KnutsenFeminism, War and the Prospects for Peace - Lucian AshworthPart Three: Reconceptualizing Disciplinary HistoryThe Myth of the ‘First Great Debate’ - Peter WilsonLessons from the Past: Reassessing the Interwar Disciplinary History of International Relations - Brian SchmidtWho Killed the International Studies Conference? - David LongThe Construction of an Edifice: The Story of a First Great Debate - Joel Quirk and Darshan VigneswaranThe Realist Gambit: Postwar American Political Science and the Birth of IR Theory - Nicolas GuilhotWriting the World: Disciplinary History and Beyond - Duncan BellThe Big Bangs of IR: The Myths That Your Teachers Still Tell You about 1648 and 1919 - Benjamin de Carvalho, Halvard Leira and John HobsonVOLUME THREE: THE STATE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEPart One: Classic TakesState Formation and State Building in Europe - Thomas ErtmanReflections on the History of European State-Making - Charles TillyThe Absolutist State in the West - Perry AndersonThe Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms, and Results - Michael MannThe Rise and Demise of the Territorial State - John HerzPart Two: ReconceptualizationsApproaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics - Stephen KrasnerReformation, Counter-Reformation, and the Early Modern State: A Reassessment - Wolfgang ReinhardCulture in Rational-Choice Theories of State Formation - Julia AdamsBody and Soul: Calvinism, Discipline, and State Power in Early Modern Europe Modern Europe - Philip GorskiPart Three: Beyond the European ExperienceThe Latin American Puzzle and Wars and Nation States in Latin America - Miguel Angel CentenoWar and the State in Africa - Jeffrey HerbstPart Four: ReflectionsOn the Ontological Status of the State - Erik RingmarThe Territorial Trap: The Geographical Assumptions of International Relations Theory - John AgnewSovereignty as Symbolic Form - Jens Bartelson`Polities Past and Present - Yale Ferguson and Richard MansbachVOLUME FOUR: THE STATE SYSTEM IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEPart One: Nature and EmergenceSystems of States - Adam WatsonThe Concept of Order in World Politics - Hedley BullSovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian Myth - Andreas OsianderOf Systems, Boundaries and Territoriality: An Inquiry into the Formation of the State System - Friedrich KratochwilTerritoriality and Beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations - John RuggieAgraria and Industria: Two Models of the International System - George ModelskiPart Two: Facets of the International SystemInstitutional Selection in International Relations: State Anarchy as Order - Hendrik SpruytTesting Balance-of-Power Theory in World History - William Wohlforth et al.Gendering Sovereignty: Marriage and International Relations in Elizabethan Times - Diana SacoThe Altered State and the State of Nature—The French Revolution and International Politics - Mlada BukovanskyJapan’s Socialization into Janus-Faced European International Society - Shogo SuzukiPart Three: The Problem of EmpiresFrom International Law to Imperial Constitutions: The Problem of Quasi-Sovereignty, 1870–1900 - Lauren BentonWhat′s at Stake in the American Empire Debate - Daniel Nexon and Thomas WrightPart Four: Rethinking ChangeRethinking Benchmark Dates in International Relations - Barry Buzan and George Lawson

"The ambitious four-volume work Historical International Relations edited by Halvard Leira and Benjamin de Carvalho is an important contribution to the literature on international relations and likely to remain a standard collection on the topic for many years. It is comprehensive, well organized and encompasses many of the classic articles in the field by leading European and American scholars. Each of the volumes should be required reading for anyone who wishes to understand the origins and evolution of theory or practice in the discipline of international relations since the beginning of the 20th century to the present."

• VOLUME ONE: DOING HISTORICAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSPart One: Classic TakesWhy Is There No International Theory? - Martin WightInternational Relations: The Long Road to Theory - Stanley HoffmannInternational Relations and the Relevance of History - Arthur GilbertPart Two: ReconceptualizationsHistory and Structure in the Theory of International Relations - Rob WalkerDiplomatic History and International Relations Theory: Respecting Difference and Crossing Boundaries - Colin Elman and Miriam ElmanThe Pragmatics of International History - Donald PuchalaThe Historical Problem in International Relations - Thomas SmithStill ‘Marking Time’? Text, Discourse and Truth in International History - Patrick FinneyPart Three: Ways of Doing Historical International RelationsOn the Historical Imagination of International Relations: The Case for a ‘Deweyan Reconstruction’ - Jonathan IsacoffWhat’s at Stake in ‘Bringing Historical Sociology Back’ into International Relations? Transcending ‘Chronofetishism’ and ‘Tempocentrism’ in International Relations - John HobsonInternational Relations and the ‘Problem of History’ - Nick Vaughan-WilliamsHistory, Action and Identity: Revisiting the ‘Second’ Great Debate and Assessing Its Importance for Social Theory - Friedrich KratochwilNarrative Explanation and International Relations: Back to Basics - Hidemi SuganamiWhat Is History in International Relations? - John Hobson and George LawsonWhat’s at Stake in the Historical Turn? Theory, Practice and Phronesis in International Relations - David McCourtVOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL THOUGHTPart One: Rethinking International ThoughtThe International Turn in Intellectual History - David ArmitageWhy International Relations Theorists Should Stop Reading Thucydides - David WelchJustus Lipsius, Political Humanism and the Disciplining of 17th Century Statecraft - Halvard LeiraThe Forgotten Prophet: Tom Paine’s Cosmopolitanism and International Relations - Thomas WalkerJustice, Order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) - Alex PritchardPart Two: International Relations before the DisciplineBirth of a Discipline - Robert VitalisOrigins and Originality: IR Scholarship before World War I - Torbjørn KnutsenFeminism, War and the Prospects for Peace - Lucian AshworthPart Three: Reconceptualizing Disciplinary HistoryThe Myth of the ‘First Great Debate’ - Peter WilsonLessons from the Past: Reassessing the Interwar Disciplinary History of International Relations - Brian SchmidtWho Killed the International Studies Conference? - David LongThe Construction of an Edifice: The Story of a First Great Debate - Joel Quirk and Darshan VigneswaranThe Realist Gambit: Postwar American Political Science and the Birth of IR Theory - Nicolas GuilhotWriting the World: Disciplinary History and Beyond - Duncan BellThe Big Bangs of IR: The Myths That Your Teachers Still Tell You about 1648 and 1919 - Benjamin de Carvalho, Halvard Leira and John HobsonVOLUME THREE: THE STATE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEPart One: Classic TakesState Formation and State Building in Europe - Thomas ErtmanReflections on the History of European State-Making - Charles TillyThe Absolutist State in the West - Perry AndersonThe Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms, and Results - Michael MannThe Rise and Demise of the Territorial State - John HerzPart Two: ReconceptualizationsApproaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics - Stephen KrasnerReformation, Counter-Reformation, and the Early Modern State: A Reassessment - Wolfgang ReinhardCulture in Rational-Choice Theories of State Formation - Julia AdamsBody and Soul: Calvinism, Discipline, and State Power in Early Modern Europe Modern Europe - Philip GorskiPart Three: Beyond the European ExperienceThe Latin American Puzzle and Wars and Nation States in Latin America - Miguel Angel CentenoWar and the State in Africa - Jeffrey HerbstPart Four: ReflectionsOn the Ontological Status of the State - Erik RingmarThe Territorial Trap: The Geographical Assumptions of International Relations Theory - John AgnewSovereignty as Symbolic Form - Jens Bartelson`Polities Past and Present - Yale Ferguson and Richard MansbachVOLUME FOUR: THE STATE SYSTEM IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEPart One: Nature and EmergenceSystems of States - Adam WatsonThe Concept of Order in World Politics - Hedley BullSovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian Myth - Andreas OsianderOf Systems, Boundaries and Territoriality: An Inquiry into the Formation of the State System - Friedrich KratochwilTerritoriality and Beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations - John RuggieAgraria and Industria: Two Models of the International System - George ModelskiPart Two: Facets of the International SystemInstitutional Selection in International Relations: State Anarchy as Order - Hendrik SpruytTesting Balance-of-Power Theory in World History - William Wohlforth et al.Gendering Sovereignty: Marriage and International Relations in Elizabethan Times - Diana SacoThe Altered State and the State of Nature—The French Revolution and International Politics - Mlada BukovanskyJapan’s Socialization into Janus-Faced European International Society - Shogo SuzukiPart Three: The Problem of EmpiresFrom International Law to Imperial Constitutions: The Problem of Quasi-Sovereignty, 1870–1900 - Lauren BentonWhat′s at Stake in the American Empire Debate - Daniel Nexon and Thomas WrightPart Four: Rethinking ChangeRethinking Benchmark Dates in International Relations - Barry Buzan and George Lawson

"The ambitious four-volume work Historical International Relations edited by Halvard Leira and Benjamin de Carvalho is an important contribution to the literature on international relations and likely to remain a standard collection on the topic for many years. It is comprehensive, well organized and encompasses many of the classic articles in the field by leading European and American scholars. Each of the volumes should be required reading for anyone who wishes to understand the origins and evolution of theory or practice in the discipline of international relations since the beginning of the 20th century to the present."

• VOLUME ONE: DOING HISTORICAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSPart One: Classic TakesWhy Is There No International Theory? - Martin WightInternational Relations: The Long Road to Theory - Stanley HoffmannInternational Relations and the Relevance of History - Arthur GilbertPart Two: ReconceptualizationsHistory and Structure in the Theory of International Relations - Rob WalkerDiplomatic History and International Relations Theory: Respecting Difference and Crossing Boundaries - Colin Elman and Miriam ElmanThe Pragmatics of International History - Donald PuchalaThe Historical Problem in International Relations - Thomas SmithStill ‘Marking Time’? Text, Discourse and Truth in International History - Patrick FinneyPart Three: Ways of Doing Historical International RelationsOn the Historical Imagination of International Relations: The Case for a ‘Deweyan Reconstruction’ - Jonathan IsacoffWhat’s at Stake in ‘Bringing Historical Sociology Back’ into International Relations? Transcending ‘Chronofetishism’ and ‘Tempocentrism’ in International Relations - John HobsonInternational Relations and the ‘Problem of History’ - Nick Vaughan-WilliamsHistory, Action and Identity: Revisiting the ‘Second’ Great Debate and Assessing Its Importance for Social Theory - Friedrich KratochwilNarrative Explanation and International Relations: Back to Basics - Hidemi SuganamiWhat Is History in International Relations? - John Hobson and George LawsonWhat’s at Stake in the Historical Turn? Theory, Practice and Phronesis in International Relations - David McCourtVOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL THOUGHTPart One: Rethinking International ThoughtThe International Turn in Intellectual History - David ArmitageWhy International Relations Theorists Should Stop Reading Thucydides - David WelchJustus Lipsius, Political Humanism and the Disciplining of 17th Century Statecraft - Halvard LeiraThe Forgotten Prophet: Tom Paine’s Cosmopolitanism and International Relations - Thomas WalkerJustice, Order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) - Alex PritchardPart Two: International Relations before the DisciplineBirth of a Discipline - Robert VitalisOrigins and Originality: IR Scholarship before World War I - Torbjørn KnutsenFeminism, War and the Prospects for Peace - Lucian AshworthPart Three: Reconceptualizing Disciplinary HistoryThe Myth of the ‘First Great Debate’ - Peter WilsonLessons from the Past: Reassessing the Interwar Disciplinary History of International Relations - Brian SchmidtWho Killed the International Studies Conference? - David LongThe Construction of an Edifice: The Story of a First Great Debate - Joel Quirk and Darshan VigneswaranThe Realist Gambit: Postwar American Political Science and the Birth of IR Theory - Nicolas GuilhotWriting the World: Disciplinary History and Beyond - Duncan BellThe Big Bangs of IR: The Myths That Your Teachers Still Tell You about 1648 and 1919 - Benjamin de Carvalho, Halvard Leira and John HobsonVOLUME THREE: THE STATE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEPart One: Classic TakesState Formation and State Building in Europe - Thomas ErtmanReflections on the History of European State-Making - Charles TillyThe Absolutist State in the West - Perry AndersonThe Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms, and Results - Michael MannThe Rise and Demise of the Territorial State - John HerzPart Two: ReconceptualizationsApproaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics - Stephen KrasnerReformation, Counter-Reformation, and the Early Modern State: A Reassessment - Wolfgang ReinhardCulture in Rational-Choice Theories of State Formation - Julia AdamsBody and Soul: Calvinism, Discipline, and State Power in Early Modern Europe Modern Europe - Philip GorskiPart Three: Beyond the European ExperienceThe Latin American Puzzle and Wars and Nation States in Latin America - Miguel Angel CentenoWar and the State in Africa - Jeffrey HerbstPart Four: ReflectionsOn the Ontological Status of the State - Erik RingmarThe Territorial Trap: The Geographical Assumptions of International Relations Theory - John AgnewSovereignty as Symbolic Form - Jens Bartelson`Polities Past and Present - Yale Ferguson and Richard MansbachVOLUME FOUR: THE STATE SYSTEM IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEPart One: Nature and EmergenceSystems of States - Adam WatsonThe Concept of Order in World Politics - Hedley BullSovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian Myth - Andreas OsianderOf Systems, Boundaries and Territoriality: An Inquiry into the Formation of the State System - Friedrich KratochwilTerritoriality and Beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations - John RuggieAgraria and Industria: Two Models of the International System - George ModelskiPart Two: Facets of the International SystemInstitutional Selection in International Relations: State Anarchy as Order - Hendrik SpruytTesting Balance-of-Power Theory in World History - William Wohlforth et al.Gendering Sovereignty: Marriage and International Relations in Elizabethan Times - Diana SacoThe Altered State and the State of Nature—The French Revolution and International Politics - Mlada BukovanskyJapan’s Socialization into Janus-Faced European International Society - Shogo SuzukiPart Three: The Problem of EmpiresFrom International Law to Imperial Constitutions: The Problem of Quasi-Sovereignty, 1870–1900 - Lauren BentonWhat′s at Stake in the American Empire Debate - Daniel Nexon and Thomas WrightPart Four: Rethinking ChangeRethinking Benchmark Dates in International Relations - Barry Buzan and George Lawson