TY - BOOK AU - Leira,Halvard AU - Carvalho,Benjamin de TI - Historical international relations T2 - SAGE library of international relations SN - 9781473902206 (hardback) (set of four volumes) PY - 2015/// CY - Los Angeles PB - SAGE Publications KW - International relations KW - History KW - World politics KW - Political science N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Volume 1; Doing historical international relations; Volume 2; The history of international thought; Volume 3; The state in historical perspective; Volume 4; The state system in historical perspective N2 - 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 ER -