History, theory and the narrative turn in IR

Review of International Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 703-714

  Roberts, Geoffrey ^a  

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EID: 33750344691     PISSN: 02602105     EISSN: 14699044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210506007248     Document Type: Review

References (41)

1. See R. F. Berkhofer, Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995).
2. On narrative and history, see G. Roberts (ed.), The History and Narrative Reader (London: Routledge, 2001).
3. For a postmodernist critique of diplomatic/international history; P. Finney, 'Still "Marking time"? Text, Discourse and Truth in International History', Review of International Studies, 27:3 (2001).
4. C. Reynolds, Theory and Explanation in International Politics (London: Martin Robertson, 1973);
5. Modes of Imperialism (Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1981);
6. The Politics of War (Brighton: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989);
7. The World of States (London: Edward Elgar, 1992).
8. I. Clark, 'International Relations: Divided by a Common Language?', Government and Opposition, 37:2 (2002).
9. C. Hill, 'History and International Relations', in S. Smith, International Relations: British and American Perspectives (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985), p. 132.
10. D. C. Copeland, 'The Constructivist Challenge to Structural Realism', International Security, 25:2 (2000), p. 210.
11. C. Elman and M. Fendius Elman, Bridges and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists and the Study of International Relations (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001).
12. Ian Clark's essay noted above is a review of this book. For an earlier manifestation of this dialogue/debate between historians and political scientists, see P. G. Lauren (ed.), Diplomacy: New Approaches in History, Theory, and Policy (New York: The Free Press, 1979).
13. S. H. Haber et al., 'Brothers under the Skin: Diplomatic History and International Relations', International Security, 22:1 (1997).
14. But see C. Kennedy-Pipe, 'International History and International Relations Theory: A Dialogue Beyond the Cold War', International Affairs, 76:4 (2000).
15. D. Reynolds, 'International History, the Cultural Turn and the Diplomatic Twitch', Bindo. Lecture, Queen Mary College, London University, February 2005.
16. For another recent effort to extend the horizons of diplomatic/ international historians, see P. Finney (ed.), Palgrave Advances in International History (London: Palgrave, 2005). The book does contain an essay on the Political Science-History interface, but it is by a leading contributor to the American discussion (Mirium Fendius Elman).
17. See S. Hobden, International Relations and Historical Sociology (London: Routledge, 1998),
18. and S. Hobden & J. M. Hobson (eds.), Historical Sociology of International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
19. H. Suganami, 'On Wendt's Philosophy: A Critique', Review of International Studies, 28:1 (2002).
20. B. Buzan and R. Little, 'Why International Relations has Failed as an Intellectual Project and What to Do About it', Millennium, 30:1 (2001), p. 38.
21. P. Schroeder, The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).
22. N. Lewkowicz, 'The German Question and the International Order (1943-1948): An English School Approach'. This paper may be accessed on the English School web pages via the BISA website and the BISA working group on the English School.
23. See, for example, H. Suganami, 'Agents, Structures, Narratives', European Journal of International Relations, 5:3 (1999).
24. M. Hollis and S. Smith, Explaining and Understanding International Relations (Oxford: Clarendon, 1991).
25. On postmodernism within IR: J. George, Discourses of Global Politics (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994).
26. The two key texts arguing for the phenomenological grounding of narrative history are D. Carr, Time, Narrative and History (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1986),
27. and F. A. Olafson, The Dialectic of Action: A Philosophical Interpretation of History and the Humanities (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1979). The works of Paul Ricoeur are also important in this respect, although he is much more critical of traditional narrative history.
28. Wendt's seminal article 'The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory', International Organisation, 46 (1987) was heavily influenced by the critical realists.
29. See C. Campbell, The Myth of Social Action (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
30. For the argument that such anxiety is misconceived, see A. King, 'Against Structure: A Critique of Morphogenetic Social Theory', The Sociological Review, 1999
31. and 'The Accidental Derogation of the Lay Actor: A Critique of Gidden's Concept of Structure', Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 30:3 (2000).
32. R. Williams, The Long Revolution (London: Pelican Books, 1965), pp. 90-5.
33. Especially M. S. Archer, Being Human: The Problem of Agency (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
34. 'What if' history is currently experiencing quite a boom. For a thorough and entertaining exploration of the issues raised by this approach to the study of the past see G. Martin, Past Futures: The Impossible Necessity of History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004).
35. D. H. Porter, The Emergence of the Past: A Theory of Historical Explanation (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1981), p. 20.
36. M. Mann, The Sources of Social Power: The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), ch. 21: 'Empirical Culmination - Over the Top: Geopolitics, Class Struggle, and World War 1'.
37. M. Mann, The Sources of Social Power: A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 532.
38. See D. Stevenson, 'Militarization and Diplomacy in Europe before 1914', International Security, 22:1 (1997),
39. and D. G. Herrmann, The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996).
40. See M. Trachtenberg, 'The Coming of the First World War: A Reassessment', in his History and Strategy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991).
41. E. H. Carr, What is History? (London: Pelican Books, 1964), ch. 5.