Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations

• Traditions: Demonstrates the wide variety of approaches to HIR.
• Thinking International Relations Historically: Different ways of thinking IR historically share some common concerns and areas for further investigation.
• Actors, Processes and Institutions: Explores the processes, actors, practices, and institutions that constitute the core objects of study of many HIR scholars.
• Situating Historical International Relations: Critically reflects about the situatedness of our objects of study.
• Approaches: Examines how HIR scholars conduct and reflect about their research, often in dialogue with a variety of perspectives from cognate disciplines.

Summarizing key contributions and trends while also sketching out challenges for future inquiry, this is an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers from a range of disciplines, particularly International Relations, global history, political science, history, sociology, anthropology, peace studies, diplomatic studies, security studies, international political thought, political geography, international law.