Transversal Lines
Résumé
Speaking about the international, identifying its specificity, has commonly depended on multiple fragmentations: levels of analysis to distinguish the internal from the international, and particular individuals from both; disciplinary boundaries that differentiate international relations from anthropology (confined to localized peoples of marginal interest), and from both sociology and politics (confined to the domestic life of nations and states); distinctions between theoretical and empirical research, between politics and economics, and between scholars willing to face up to political realities and those who prefer to imagine something better...