Historical international relations / 
edited by Halvard Leira, Benjamin de Carvalho. 
 - 4 volumes (various pagings) :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - SAGE library of international relations .
 - SAGE library of international relations. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Doing historical international relations.  Volume 1  The history of international thought.  Volume 2  The state in historical perspective.  Volume 3  The state system in historical perspective.  Volume 4 
<br/><br/> As a quarry for data, testing-ground for theory and site of investigation, history has been one of the unacknowledged partners of International Relations. The last two decades has witnessed both a substantial increase in the scope of historical IR scholarship and in the sophistication of methodological approaches to history, accompanied by a rapidly increasing (and multidisciplinary) interest in the history of international thought, as well as an ever more sophisticated historiography of the discipline itself. This Major Work is structured in a way to engage with the key recent developments in the field of international relations, providing the reader with an overview of approaches to history in IR; the history of international thought/historiography; and the emergence of the state and the state system. Volume One: Doing Historical International Relations Volume Two: The History of International Thought Volume Three: The State in Historical Perspective Volume Four: The State System in Historical Perspective. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781473902206 (hardback) (set of four volumes)  RM3,826.55 (4 volumes) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>International relations--History.<br/>World politics.<br/>Political science.