You can choose your sociology but you can't choose your relations: Tilly, Mann and relational sociology

Review of International Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 281-286

  Hobden, Stephen ^a  

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EID: 0035635534     PISSN: 02602105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210500002813     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. S. Hobden, 'Theorising the International System: Perspectives from Historical Sociology', Review of International Studies, 25 (1999), pp. 257-71.
2. I owe considerable thanks also to Tarak Bakarwi, John Hobson, Steve Smith, and Colin Wight who read and commented on an earlier draft of this response. Errors, misinterpretations and inconsistencies are entirely mine.
3. M. Emirbayer, 'Manifesto for a Relational Sociology', American Journal of Sociology, 103 (1997), pp. 281-317.
4. Nexon, 'Reply to Hobden', Review of International Studies, 27:2 (2001), pp. 273-80, see p. 273.
5. Hobden 'Theorising', p. 267.
6. Nexon 'Reply to Hobden', p. 274.
7. Ibid., p. 278.
8. Emirbayer 'Manifesto', pp. 281-2, emphasis in original.
9. Nexon 'Reply to Hobden', p. 280, fn. 49, emphasis added.
10. Emirbayer 'Manifesto', p. 290.
11. Nexon 'Reply to Hobden', p. 279.
12. S. Hobden, International Relations and Historical Sociology: Breaking Down Boundaries (London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 176-8.
13. See in particular Goldstone's critique of Tilly's work: J.A. Goldstone, 'States Making War Making States Making War', Contemporary Sociology 20 (1991), pp. 176-8.
14. S. Hobden, 'Geopolitical Space or Civilization? The International System in the Work of Michael Mann', International Relations, 12 (1995), pp. 77-101, see pp. 78-9.
15. M. Mann, The Sources of Social Power, Volume 2: The Rise of Classes and Nation States, 1760-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). The subtitle of this volume would also not seem to suggest the utilization of a relational approach.
16. C. Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States, AD 990-1992, revised pbk. edn. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992), p. 1.
17. M Hollis and S. Smith, Explaining and Understanding International Relations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990).