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International Relations and the Problem of Difference

"This is more than a good book-it is an astonishingly good book-beautifully written, persua-
sively argued, and intellectual tour de force in the best sense. It is a treat and a voyage of discovery
to read, a wonderful example of critical theory, and very probably a modern classic."
-Yale H. Ferguson, Co-Director, Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University

"Naeem Inayatullah and David Blaney continue, in this book, their (very civil) insurgency against
the colonizing frameworks of international relations. Lucidly voicing the concerns of many, they
wonder how, in a world marked by diversity, the discipline of international relations has come to
have a deeply problematic relationship with issues of difference. Exploring this question histori-
cally, they trace the source of this problem to IR's intellectual origins in and subsequent inability
to venture beyond a socially impoverished and culturally parochial imagination of the world.
Offering a conceptually richer perspective on IR as a 'study of differences,' this book insightfully
revises our existing understandings of the core structures of world politics. Equally crucial, it
empowers us analytically and ethically to pursue a truly global IR/IPE."
-Himadeep Muppidi, Department of Policitcal Science, Vassar College.

How is it that international relations-the subfield of political science that might best
describe, explain, and theorize cultural diversity-ends up largely ignoring the subject? As a set
of theories about conflicts between States-about markets and wars-IR has long had little to
say about the interactions of communities or about the role of identity. It has also repeatedly
failed to confront its intellectual ties to the legacy of colonialism and cultural cleansing.
International Relations and the Problem of Difference beings to re-imagine the ways in which the
field of t IR might be organized explicitly around the exploration of the relation of wholes and
parts and sameness and difference.

Naeem Inayatullah is an Associate Professor of Politics at Ithaca College

David L. Blaney is Associate Professor of Political Science at Macalester College

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Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 0-415-94638-7

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Reviews:
Roland Bleiker, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Australia, “Searching for Difference in a Homogeneous Discipline,” International Studies Review (2006) 8, 128–130.

Daniel M. Green, University of Delaware “Review of International Relations and the Problem of Difference,” Perspectives on Politics, Vol.3, No.4 (December 2005), 948-949.

Carlos Rueda, Florida International University, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Volume 33, Number 3, June 2005, pp. 905-7.

Priya Dixit, American University, “Thinking Difference, Internationally,” Borderlands, 3 (3), 2004.

Chris Brown, London School of Economics and Political Science, “Not Different Enough,” International Studies Review, (2004), 6, 327-9.