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    Title: International Relations, Irrelevant? Don’t blame theory  Author(s): REUS-SMIT, Christian Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: It is now commonplace to bemoan our field’s lack of practical relevance, and to blame this sorry situation on our penchant for ever-more abstract theorising over the analysis of real-world phenomena. This article challenges ...
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    Title: Obligation through Practice  Author(s): REUS-SMIT, Christian Date: 2011-01-01 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Despite the many calls for bridge building between the fields of International Law and International Relations, genuinely integrative studies are few and far between. Lawyers leaven their writings with a dash of real politic ...
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    Title: Struggles for Individual Rights and the Expansion of the International System  Author(s): REUS-SMIT, Christian Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: We live today in the world’s first universal, multicultural, and multiregional system of sovereign states. Five centuries ago, emergent sovereign states were confined to Europe and contained within the bounds of Latin ...
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    Title: Human Rights in a Global Ecumene  Author(s): REUS-SMIT, Christian Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: How should we understand the cultural politics that has surrounded the development of international human rights? Two perspectives frame contemporary debate. For ‘cultural particularists’, human rights are western artefacts; ...