Human Beings in IR Theory
By developing the analytical framework of an International Political (Post-)Anthropology, this volume becomes the first to comprehensively organize the debate about the human in world politics.
Since the 1980s, International Relations has seen a string of disputes over the foundations of the discipline which, until then, had been mostly taken for granted. However, until today there was one core concept that, while frequently addressed in various guises, had never been explicitly and systematically engaged with at the level of disciplinary debates: the human. This volume includes cutting-edge accounts of how the human is (or is not) theorized from across the entire range of IR theories. It provides a solid foundation for future debates about how, why, and to which ends the human has been or must (not) be built into our theories, and of the implications of such moves for how we come to see world politics and humanity’s role within it.
Publication details
Annett Freyberg-Inan and Daniel Jacobi. Human Beings in IR Theory (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2015)