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Asks how, why and to what ends humans appear in international relations theories and how this makes us interpret world politics.
List of contents
Introduction: human being(s) in international relations Daniel Jacobi and Annette Freyberg-Inan; Part I. International Political Anthropology: 1. Between fear and despair: human nature in realism Annette Freyberg-Inan; 2. 'Human nature' and the paradoxical order of liberalism Stephen J. Rosow; 3. Disciplining human nature: the evolution of American social scientific theorizing Jennifer Sterling-Folker and Jason F. Charrette; 4. The Marxist perspective from 'species-being' to natural justice Chris Brown; 5. In biology we trust: biopolitical science and the elusive self Duncan Bell; 6. Greeks, neuroscience, and international relations Richard Ned Lebow; 7. Constructivism, realism, and the variety of human natures Samuel Barkin; 8. Feminism and the figure of Man Elisabeth Prügl; Part II. International Political Post-Anthropology: 9. Realism, agency, and the politics of nature Colin Wight; 10. A global human condition Mauro J. Caraccioli; 11. Imagining man - forgetting society? Benjamin Herborth; 12. On the social (re)construction of the human in world politics Daniel Jacobi; 13. Observing visions of man Oliver Kessler; 14. Who is acting in international relations? Jan-Hendrik Passoth and Nicholas J. Rowland; Conclusion: toward an International Political (Post-)Anthropology Annette Freyberg-Inan and Daniel Jacobi.
About the author
Daniel Jacobi is Research Associate and Lecturer at Goethe University in Frankfurt as well as a Research Associate in the Cluster of Excellence 'Formation of Normative Orders'.Annette Freyberg-Inan is Professor of International Relations at the Technical University Darmstadt and Research Affiliate at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and its program group on 'Political Economy and Transnational Governance'.
Summary
This volume presents and advances the debate about how, why and to which ends ideas about humans are built into our theories and how we come to see world politics and humanity's role in it as a result. It is the first survey devoted to this subject in international relations.
