Introduction - Asking questions of, and about, IR
[Synne L. Dyvik, Jan Selby and Rorden Wilkinson]
Part one-What's the point of IR?
Chapter 1 - What's the point of IR? The international in the invention of humanity
[Ken Booth]
Chapter 2 - Insecurity redux: The perennial problem of "the point of IR"
[Patrick Thaddeus Jackson]
Chapter 3 - What's the point of IR? Or, we're so paranoid, we probably think this question is about us
[Cynthia Weber]
Chapter 4 - In defense of IR
[Beate Jahn]
Part two-The origins of a discipline
Chapter 5 - Relocating the point of IR in understanding industrial-age global problems
[Craig N. Murphy]
Chapter 6 - Past as prefigurative prelude: Feminist peace activists and IR
[Catia C. Confortini]
Chapter 7 - Beyond practitioner histories of international relations: Or, the stories that professors like to tell (about) themselves
[Robert Vitalis]
Chapter 8 - How elite networks shape the contours of the discipline and what we might do about it
[Inderjeet Parmar]
Part three-Policing the boundaries
Chapter 9 - Be careful what you wish for: Positivism and the desire for relevance in the American study of IR
[Jennifer Sterling-Folker]
Chapter 10 - Don't flatter yourself: World politics as we know it is changing and so must disciplinary IR
[L. H. M. Ling]
Chapter 11 - Indian IR: Older and newer orientations
[Achin Vanaik]
Chapter 12 - Undisciplined IR: Thinking without a net
[Laura Sjoberg]
Part four-Engaging the world
Chapter 13 - Mind the gap: Defining and measuring policy engagement in IR
[Catherine Weaver]
Chapter 14 - IR theory in the Anthropocene: Time for a reality check?
[Stephanie Lawson]
Chapter 15 - UN studies and IR: History, ideas, and problem-solving
[Thomas G. Weiss]
Chapter 16 - Beyond the "ivory tower?" IR in the world
[Peter Newell and Anna Stavrianakis]
Part five-Imagining the future
Chapter 17 - Escaping from the prison of Political Science: What IR offers that other disciplines do not
[Justin Rosenberg]
Chapter 18 - The future of feminist international relations
[Adrienne Roberts]
Chapter 19 - A methodological turn long overdue: Or, why it is time for critical scholars to cut their losses
[Samuel Knafo]
Chapter 20 - Subverting the "international:" Imagining future as past
[Yongjin Zhang]
