Introduction: Materialism and World Politics 7 Jun 2013 | 02:09 pm

The Power of Paradoxes: A Review of Badredine Arfi's Re-thinking International Relations Theory via Deconstruction (London: Routledge, 2012, 240 pp., ... 7 Jun 2013 | 02:09 pm

Exploring Asia: Understanding the Historic Roots of Regional Contemporary Challenges 7 Jun 2013 | 02:09 pm

The Politics of Recognition in International Conflicts 7 Jun 2013 | 02:09 pm

The 'New Materialism' and the Fragility of Things 7 Jun 2013 | 02:09 pm

The ‘new materialism’ is the most common name given to a series of movements in several fields that criticise anthropocentrism, rethink subjectivity by playing up the role of inhuman forces within the...

The Translation Zone: Between Actor-Network Theory and International Relations 7 Jun 2013 | 02:09 pm

This article examines the problem of how to translate actor-network theory into the field of international relations, and develops three arguments. Firstly, the article draws on Emily Apter’s notion o...

Of Parts and Wholes: International Relations beyond the Human 7 Jun 2013 | 02:09 pm

While some theorists in International Relations have engaged with thinking about complexity, we would argue that few have thought it through to its logical conclusion – the interconnectedness of syste...

Agentic Capacities and Capacious Historical Materialism: Thinking with New Materialisms in the Political Sciences 7 Jun 2013 | 02:09 pm

In this article, I note that the idea of a new materialist turn has recently been gathering steam. The first part considers some of the signature elements of the new materialisms. The most distinctive...

Technology and 'the International' or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Determinism 7 Jun 2013 | 02:09 pm

Technological determinism as a theory of social change has been thoroughly tarnished in social theory, science and technology studies, and the discipline of International Relations. If once claims to ...

Structural Inequality, Quasi-rents and the Democratic Peace: A Neo-Ricardian Analysis of International Order 7 Jun 2013 | 02:09 pm

This article employs the neo-Ricardian concept of quasi-rents – temporary above-market returns – to vindicate the structuralist claim that patterns of international order are shaped by global inequali...