International Relations in France

Preface

This book examines the case of French International Relations (IR) within the context of the transnational-American discipline and while doing so proposes a framework for the analysis of social science disciplines in a long-term, comparative perspective with special emphasis on the role that legitimate forms of expression play in their development.¹

This is a study on the International Relations tradition in France. Its analysis is comparative in spirit. Through the book, we examine the institutional origins and development of the French tradition and its relative integration into the transnational-American discipline in terms of production of knowledge, and we at length scrutinise how article argument structures have developed over ...