CIAO DATE: 11/03

The State of International Relations Research and Perspectives in Germany

Gunther Hellmann, editor
August 2003

Debordering and International Relations: The Dual Transformation of a Subject Matter and its Discipline by Mathias Albert

Abstract

The article argues that the interrelated debordering of the discipline of International Relations and its subject provides an opportunity to constitute a „science of the global”. It first illustrates the debordering of international relations in the sense of a declining structuring power of the Westphalian model and discusses a number of debates and approaches which reflect this debordering within IR. Against this background it sketches the contours of a project to reorient the discipline as a "science of the global" which takes serious a distancing from „methodological nationalism”.