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Uses of Iver Neumann Nothing International is Alien

Edited By Halvard Leira, Alireza Shams Lahijani, Einar Wigen Copyright 2025
    178 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book engages with the work of a Iver B. Neumann, demonstrating the past, present, and future importance of his work as a central IR scholar who set a path for younger researchers to make sense of international relations beyond traditional bounds.

    By closely examining his work, some of the leading contemporary political scientists reflect on the eclecticism that embodies Neumann’s theorisation. Expert contributors engage in a critical review of his work on identity, practice theory, discourse, knowledge production, mentoring, and methodology, looking beyond the person to say something about the state of the field and the craft of research altogether. These reflections engage in critical assessment of the state of International Relations as a discipline, taking stock of theoretical and methodological challenges that scholars face, and reviewing the changes and continuities in knowledge production within social sciences.

    This book would be of interest to students, researchers, and educators working on themes of diplomacy, anthropology, popular culture, identity, foreign policy, and knowledge production and introducing them to the state of the discipline, key texts, and key developments over the past thirty years.

    List of Contributors

    1. Introduction: Of nomadism, diplomacy and the duty of not becoming a one-trick pony

    Halvard Leira, Alireza Shams Lahijani & Einar Wigen

    1. Of Selves and Others

    Jens Bartelson

    1. Folk theories of International Relations (or IR folks and their theories)

    Rebecca Adler-Nissen

    1. The Neumannian Methodology

    Morten Skumsrud Andersen, Kristin Haugevik & Jon Harald Sande Lie

    1. Iver Neumann, the feminist

     Ann Towns

    1. Critical Trade-offs in the Study of Difference and Otherness

    Bahar Rumelili

    1. The unlikely poststructuralist

    Thomas Hylland Eriksen

    1. “Kira at Bashi”

    Dan Nexon & Patrick T Jackson

    1. The attentive observer: Reading Identity on and from Russia

    Anatoly Reshetnikov

    1. Theorist and Provocateur: The Young Iver Neumann

    Benjamin de Carvalho, Karsten Friis, Nina Græger

    1. Wager upon wager

    Vincent Pouliot and Ole Jacob Sending

    1. Response

    Iver B Neumann

    Index

    Biography

    Halvard Leira is Research Director and Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). He has published extensively in English and Norwegian on international political thought, historiography, foreign policy and diplomacy.

    Alireza Shams Lahijani is a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Oslo, where he is researching conceptual history of international order. His research revolves around the history of modern international society, focusing on themes of diplomacy, identity, and temporality.

    Einar Wigen is Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Oslo, where he works on political legitimacy and imperial legacies in Turkey, the Ottoman Empire and the wider Turkic world.

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