Identities, Borders, Orders: Rethinking International Relations Theory

Borderlines #18

by Mathias Albert, Yosef Lapid, David Jacobson

Political Science An interdisciplinary exploration of the role of sovereignty, national identity, and borders in international politics. Informed by current debates in social theory, Identities, Borders, Orders brings together a multinational group of respected scholars to seek and encourage imaginative adaptations and recombinations of concepts, theories, and perspectives across disciplinary lines. These contributors take up a variety of substantive, theoretical, and normative issues such as migration, nationalism, citizenship, human rights, democracy, and security. Together, their essays contribute significantly to our understanding of sovereignty, national identity, and borders. Didier Bigo, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris; Lothar Brock, U of Frankfurt am Main; Chris Brown, London School of Economics; Neil Harvey, New Mexico State U; Martin O. Heisler, U of Maryland; Rey Koslowski, Rutgers U; Friedrich Kratochwil, Ludwig Maximilians U, Munich; Ronnie D. Lipschutz, UC Santa Cruz; Richard W. Mansbach, Iowa State U; David Newman, Ben Gurion U of the Negev, Israel; Antje Wiener, Queen's U of Belfast; and Frankie Wilmer, Montana State U. Mathias Albert is assistant professor in the Institut für Politikwissenschraft at Technische Universität Darmstadt. David Jacobson is associate professor of sociology at Arizona State University. Yosef Lapid is associate professor of government at New Mexico State University.

360 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Mathias Albert is Professor of Political Science at Bielefeld University. He has written, co-authored or edited numerous books and written or co-authored about one hundred and thirty articles and chapters. Among his books are Zur Politik der Weltgesellschaft (2002), Identities, Borders, Orders (2001, edited with David Jacobson and Yosef Lapid) and New Systems Theories of International Relations (2010, edited with Lars-Erik Cederman and Alexander Wendt). Work in progress includes A Theory of World Politics.

Reviews

[Soha Bayoumi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is an important book on constructivism in IR, presenting this IBO approach...