Journal of International Political Theory, Ahead of Print. This review supplements William Bain’s Political Theology of International Order by sketching out two historical threads that are inseparable from the histories of European thought and order th…
Journal of International Political Theory, Ahead of Print. Some of the themes found in William Bain’s book, Political Theolog of International Order, were prefigured in his chapter on Hedley Bull’s The Anarchical Society. This article looks back to tha…
Journal of International Political Theory, Ahead of Print. Theology is a neglected resource in international relations scholarship; it is, more often than not, characterised as a threat to political order because it is seen as a cradle of fanaticism an…
Journal of International Political Theory, Ahead of Print. William Bain’s book does a brilliant job excavating some key conceptual underpinnings of our contemporary discussions about order, but he has perhaps underplayed the importance of nominalism in…
Journal of International Political Theory, Ahead of Print. William Bain sustains his audacious claim to write a landmark in international relations thought. His view that the medieval theological debate between imposed order and immanent order structur…
Journal of International Political Theory, Ahead of Print. A brief introduction to the roundtable on William Bain, Political Theology of International Order.
Journal of International Political Theory, Ahead of Print. The commitment to the rational actor model of state behavior is said to be a core assumption of realist theory. This assumption is listed in most textbook accounts of realism. Yet is rationalit…
Journal of International Political Theory, Ahead of Print. This article is a reply to Bevir and Hall, who recently argued in this journal that the English School needs to reflect more on its philosophy. They are right. Yet, their preferred distinction …
Journal of International Political Theory, Ahead of Print. War is cruel. Its purpose is to cause suffering. American wars create survivors and victims who confront us with the penetrating gaze of those who demand justice. Their presence implores Americ…
Journal of International Political Theory, Ahead of Print. International studies investigate the governance authority of state versus non-state actors in terms of their public or private authority. However, the public–private distinction does not suffi…