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  • 14 - Can Historicism Win over IR?

  • from Conclusion
  • Edited by Klaus Schlichte, Universität Bremen, Stephan Stetter, Universität der Bundeswehr München
  • Book:
    The Historicity of International Politics
    Published online:
    29 June 2023
    Print publication:
    13 July 2023, pp 291-302

  • Summary

    If the arguments in favour of historicism are so compelling, why does historicism have such relative difficulty in gaining a strong foothold, even after decades of the historical turn? This conclusion chapter focuses the structural constraints historicism faces in IR in particular and the social sciences in general. It first discusses why IR’s particular American origins as a discipline (as well the continued domination of US standards in the evaluation of IR scholarship globally) makes it difficult for historicist calls such as the one advanced by this volume to resonate in the wider discipline. It also argues, however, that the problem will not be solved automatically as American influence in the discipline and the world decreases. Approaches to IR hailing from other parts of the world have their own motivations to reject historicism even as they seem to care more about history than US based approaches. Historicism needs to be realistic about the obstacles it faces.