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New International Relations Books in Order

This page lists the complete New International Relations reading order by Blake Banner, with book numbers, publication years, and a publication-order view for readers who want to start at the beginning.

Updated 2026-06-22 / 81 books / 1999-2023

New International Relations Reading Order

01 International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order: Beyond International Relations Theory?(By: N. J. Rengger) 1999 Buy
02 Constructing the World Polity: Essays on International Institutionalisation(By: John Gerard Ruggie) 2002 Buy
03 War, Peace and World Orders in European History(By: Beatrice Heuser,Anja V. Hartmann,Brian Bridges) 2002 Buy
04 The Logic of Internationalism: Coercion and Accommodation(By: Kjell Goldmann) 2002 Buy
05 Shadow Globalization, Ethnic Conflicts and New Wars: A Political Economy of Intra-state War(By: Dietrich Jung) 2002 Buy
06 European Integration and National Identity: The Challenge of the Nordic States(By: Lene Hansen,OLE Waever) 2003 Buy
07 Contemporary Security Analysis and Copenhagen Peace Research(By: Dietrich Jung,Stefano Guzzini) 2003 Buy
08 European Approaches to International Relations Theory: A House with Many Mansions(By: J’rg Friedrichs) 2004 Buy
09 Does China Matter?: A Reassessment: Essays in Memory of Gerald Segal(By: Barry Buzan) 2004 Buy
10 The Post-Cold War International System: Strategies, Institutions and Reflexivity(By: Ewan Harrison) 2004 Buy
11 Observing International Relations: Niklas Luhmann and World Politics(By: Mathias Albert) 2004 Buy
12 States of Political Discourse: Words, Regimes, Seditions(By: Costas M. Constantinou) 2004 Buy
13 Human Rights and World Trade: Hunger in International Society(By: Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez) 2004 Buy
14 Communitarian International Relations: The Epistemic Foundations of International Relations(By: Emanuel Adler) 2004 Buy
15 The Future of International Relations: Masters in the Making?(By: Iver B. Neumann,OLE Waever) 2005 Buy
16 The Politics of Regional Identity: Meddling with the Mediterranean(By: Michelle Pace) 2005 Buy
17 Constructivism and International Relations: Alexander Wendt and his critics(By: Stefano Guzzini,Anna Leander) 2005 Buy
18 The Politics of Insecurity: Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU(By: Jef Huysmans) 2006 Buy
19 State Sovereignty and Intervention: A Discourse Analysis of Interventionary and Non-Interventionary Practices in Kosovo and Algeria(By: Helle Malmvig) 2006 Buy
20 Territorial Conflicts in World Society: Modern Systems Theory, International Relations and Conflict Studies(By: Stepha Stetter) 2007 Buy
21 Ontological Security in International Relations: Self-Identity and the IR State(By: Brent J. Steele) 2008 Buy
22 The International Politics of Judicial Intervention: Creating a more just order(By: Andrea Birdsall) 2009 Buy
23 Pragmatism in International Relations(With: Elisabetta Brighi) 2009 Buy
24 Civilization and Empire: China and Japan's Encounter with European International Society(By: Shogo Suzuki) 2009 Buy
25 Transforming World Politics: From Empire to Multiple Worlds(By: L.H.M. Ling,Anna M. Agathangelou) 2009 Buy
26 The Politics of Becoming European: A study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War security imaginaries(By: Maria M’lksoo) 2009 Buy
27 Social Power in International Politics(By: Peter van Ham) 2010 Buy
28 The Puzzles of Politics: Inquiries into the Genesis and Transformation of International Relations(By: Friedrich Kratochwil) 2010 Buy
29 International Relations and Identity: A Dialogical Approach(By: Xavier Guillaume) 2010 Buy
30 Arguing Global Governance: Agency, Lifeworld and Shared Reasoning(By: Markus Kornprobst,Corneliu Bjola) 2010 Buy
31 Constructing Global Enemies: Hegemony and Identity in International Discourses on Terrorism and Drug Prohibition(By: Eva Herschinger) 2010 Buy
32 Alker and IR: Global Studies in an Interconnected World(By: Ren’e Marlin-Bennett) 2012 Buy
33 Constructing Sovereignty between Politics and Law(By: Tanja E. Aalberts) 2012 Buy
34 The Scandinavian International Society: Primary Institutions and Binding Forces, 1815-2010(By: Laust Schouenborg) 2012 Buy
35 NATO’s Security Discourse after the Cold War: Representing the West(By: Andreas Behnke) 2012 Buy
36 China in UN Security Council Decision-Making on Iraq: Conflicting Understandings, Competing Preferences(By: Suzanne Xiao Yang) 2012 Buy
37 The Power of International Theory: Reforging the Link to Foreign Policy-Making through Scientific Enquiry(By: Fred Chernoff) 2012 Buy
38 World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations(By: Nicholas Onuf) 2012 Buy
39 Internationalism and the State in the Twentieth Century(By: Cornelia Navari) 2013 Buy
40 Power, Realism and Constructivism(By: Stefano Guzzini) 2013 Buy
41 Security as Practice: Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War(By: Lene Hansen) 2013 Buy
42 War in International Society(By: Lacy Pejcinovic) 2013 Buy
43 Justice, Order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon(By: Alex Prichard) 2013 Buy
44 European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games: The EU Overseas Countries and Territories(By: Rebecca Adler-Nissen) 2013 Buy
45 Making Sense, Making Worlds: Constructivism in Social Theory and International Relations(By: Nicholas Onuf) 2013 Buy
46 Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance(By: Michael J. Struett,Jon D. Carlson,Mark T. Nance) 2013 Buy
47 International Relations and the First Great Debate(By: Brian C. Schmidt) 2013 Buy
48 International Orders in the Early Modern World: Before the Rise of the West(By: Joel Quirk,Shogo Suzuki,Yongjin Zhang) 2013 Buy
49 The Dao of World Politics: Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations(By: L. H. M. Ling) 2013 Buy
50 Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy: The Continuing Story of a Death Foretold(By: Stefano Guzzini) 2013 Buy
51 Emancipatory International Relations: Critical Thinking in International Relations(By: Roger D. Spegele) 2014 Buy
52 Critical Security Methods: New frameworks for analysis(By: Claudia Aradau) 2014 Buy
53 Africa and the Expansion of International Society: Surrendering the Savannah(By: John Anthony Pella Jr) 2014 Buy
54 Small State Status Seeking: Norway's Quest for International Standing(By: Benjamin de Carvalho) 2014 Buy
55 The International Political Sociology of Security: Rethinking Theory and Practice(By: Trine Villumsen Berling) 2015 Buy
56 Reflexivity and International Relations: Positionality, Critique, and Practice(By: Jack L. Amoureux) 2015 Buy
57 A Practice of Ethics for Global Politics: Ethical Reflexivity(By: Jack L. Amoureux) 2015 Buy
58 The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations: Philosophy of Science and Its Implications for the Study of World Politics(By: Patrick Thaddeus Jackson) 2016 Buy
59 Nuclear Realism: Global political thought during the thermonuclear revolution(By: Rens van Munster) 2016 Buy
60 The Politics of Globality since 1945: Assembling the Planet(By: Rens van Munster) 2016 Buy
61 Evaluating Progress in International Relations: How do you know?(By: Patrick James,Ewan Harrison,Annette Freyberg-Inan) 2016 Buy
62 Russia and the Idea of Europe: A Study in Identity and International Relations(By: Iver B. Neumann) 2016 Buy
63 Memories of Empire and Entry into International Society: Views from the European periphery(By: Filip Ejdus) 2017 Buy
64 Great Power Multilateralism and the Prevention of War: Debating a 21st Century Concert of Powers(By: Harald Muller,Carsten Rauch) 2017 Buy
65 Deconstructing the Dynamics of World-Societal Order: The Power of Governmentality in Palestine(By: Jan Busse) 2017 Buy
66 Raymond Aron and International Relations(By: Olivier Schmitt) 2018 Buy
67 Coercive Sanctions and International Conflicts: A Sociological Theory(By: Mark Daniel Jaeger) 2018 Buy
68 Security, Defense Discourse and Identity in NATO and Europe: How France Changed Foreign Policy(By: Falk Ostermann) 2018 Buy
69 Kinship in International Relations(By: Iver B. Neumann,Kristin Haugevik) 2018 Buy
70 Special Relationships in World Politics: Inter-state Friendship and Diplomacy after the Second World War(By: Kristin Haugevik) 2018 Buy
71 The Use of Force under International Law: Lawyerized States in a Legalized World(By: Fernando G. Nu’ez-Mietz) 2018 Buy
72 Small States and Shelter Theory: Iceland’s External Affairs(By: Baldur Thorhallsson) 2018 Buy
73 Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy: Germany and the Iraq War(By: Jakub Eberle) 2019 Buy
74 Tactical Constructivism, Method, and International Relations(By: Oliver Kessler,Brent Steele,Harry Gould) 2019 Buy
75 International Relations Narratives: Plotting World Politics(By: Riikka Kuusisto) 2019 Buy
76 The Globality of Governmentality: Governing an Entangled World(By: Jan Busse) 2021 Buy
77 The Rhetoric of Inquiry in International Relations: A Hermeneutic Investigation into the Forms of Argumentation in International Relations Meta-Theory(By: Torsten Michel) 2021 Buy
78 Small States and Security in Europe: Between National and International Policymaking(By: Tom?s Weiss) 2021 Buy
79 Geoeconomics in International Relations: Neorealist and Neoliberal Conceptualizations(By: Christian Pfeiffer) 2023 Buy
80 Uncertainty in Global Politics(By: Anastasia Shesterinina,Miriam Matejova) 2023 Buy
81 Democratic Peace: A Historical and Cultural Practice(By: Jorg Kustermans) 2023 Buy

New International Relations Books by Publication Order

1999 International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order: Beyond International Relations Theory?(By: N. J. Rengger) #1
2002 Constructing the World Polity: Essays on International Institutionalisation(By: John Gerard Ruggie) #2
2002 War, Peace and World Orders in European History(By: Beatrice Heuser,Anja V. Hartmann,Brian Bridges) #3
2002 The Logic of Internationalism: Coercion and Accommodation(By: Kjell Goldmann) #4
2002 Shadow Globalization, Ethnic Conflicts and New Wars: A Political Economy of Intra-state War(By: Dietrich Jung) #5
2003 European Integration and National Identity: The Challenge of the Nordic States(By: Lene Hansen,OLE Waever) #6
2003 Contemporary Security Analysis and Copenhagen Peace Research(By: Dietrich Jung,Stefano Guzzini) #7
2004 European Approaches to International Relations Theory: A House with Many Mansions(By: J’rg Friedrichs) #8
2004 Does China Matter?: A Reassessment: Essays in Memory of Gerald Segal(By: Barry Buzan) #9
2004 The Post-Cold War International System: Strategies, Institutions and Reflexivity(By: Ewan Harrison) #10
2004 Observing International Relations: Niklas Luhmann and World Politics(By: Mathias Albert) #11
2004 States of Political Discourse: Words, Regimes, Seditions(By: Costas M. Constantinou) #12
2004 Human Rights and World Trade: Hunger in International Society(By: Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez) #13
2004 Communitarian International Relations: The Epistemic Foundations of International Relations(By: Emanuel Adler) #14
2005 The Future of International Relations: Masters in the Making?(By: Iver B. Neumann,OLE Waever) #15
2005 The Politics of Regional Identity: Meddling with the Mediterranean(By: Michelle Pace) #16
2005 Constructivism and International Relations: Alexander Wendt and his critics(By: Stefano Guzzini,Anna Leander) #17
2006 The Politics of Insecurity: Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU(By: Jef Huysmans) #18
2006 State Sovereignty and Intervention: A Discourse Analysis of Interventionary and Non-Interventionary Practices in Kosovo and Algeria(By: Helle Malmvig) #19
2007 Territorial Conflicts in World Society: Modern Systems Theory, International Relations and Conflict Studies(By: Stepha Stetter) #20
2008 Ontological Security in International Relations: Self-Identity and the IR State(By: Brent J. Steele) #21
2009 The International Politics of Judicial Intervention: Creating a more just order(By: Andrea Birdsall) #22
2009 Pragmatism in International Relations(With: Elisabetta Brighi) #23
2009 Civilization and Empire: China and Japan's Encounter with European International Society(By: Shogo Suzuki) #24
2009 Transforming World Politics: From Empire to Multiple Worlds(By: L.H.M. Ling,Anna M. Agathangelou) #25
2009 The Politics of Becoming European: A study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War security imaginaries(By: Maria M’lksoo) #26
2010 Social Power in International Politics(By: Peter van Ham) #27
2010 The Puzzles of Politics: Inquiries into the Genesis and Transformation of International Relations(By: Friedrich Kratochwil) #28
2010 International Relations and Identity: A Dialogical Approach(By: Xavier Guillaume) #29
2010 Arguing Global Governance: Agency, Lifeworld and Shared Reasoning(By: Markus Kornprobst,Corneliu Bjola) #30
2010 Constructing Global Enemies: Hegemony and Identity in International Discourses on Terrorism and Drug Prohibition(By: Eva Herschinger) #31
2012 Alker and IR: Global Studies in an Interconnected World(By: Ren’e Marlin-Bennett) #32
2012 Constructing Sovereignty between Politics and Law(By: Tanja E. Aalberts) #33
2012 The Scandinavian International Society: Primary Institutions and Binding Forces, 1815-2010(By: Laust Schouenborg) #34
2012 NATO’s Security Discourse after the Cold War: Representing the West(By: Andreas Behnke) #35
2012 China in UN Security Council Decision-Making on Iraq: Conflicting Understandings, Competing Preferences(By: Suzanne Xiao Yang) #36
2012 The Power of International Theory: Reforging the Link to Foreign Policy-Making through Scientific Enquiry(By: Fred Chernoff) #37
2012 World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations(By: Nicholas Onuf) #38
2013 Internationalism and the State in the Twentieth Century(By: Cornelia Navari) #39
2013 Power, Realism and Constructivism(By: Stefano Guzzini) #40
2013 Security as Practice: Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War(By: Lene Hansen) #41
2013 War in International Society(By: Lacy Pejcinovic) #42
2013 Justice, Order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon(By: Alex Prichard) #43
2013 European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games: The EU Overseas Countries and Territories(By: Rebecca Adler-Nissen) #44
2013 Making Sense, Making Worlds: Constructivism in Social Theory and International Relations(By: Nicholas Onuf) #45
2013 Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance(By: Michael J. Struett,Jon D. Carlson,Mark T. Nance) #46
2013 International Relations and the First Great Debate(By: Brian C. Schmidt) #47
2013 International Orders in the Early Modern World: Before the Rise of the West(By: Joel Quirk,Shogo Suzuki,Yongjin Zhang) #48
2013 The Dao of World Politics: Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations(By: L. H. M. Ling) #49
2013 Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy: The Continuing Story of a Death Foretold(By: Stefano Guzzini) #50
2014 Emancipatory International Relations: Critical Thinking in International Relations(By: Roger D. Spegele) #51
2014 Critical Security Methods: New frameworks for analysis(By: Claudia Aradau) #52
2014 Africa and the Expansion of International Society: Surrendering the Savannah(By: John Anthony Pella Jr) #53
2014 Small State Status Seeking: Norway's Quest for International Standing(By: Benjamin de Carvalho) #54
2015 The International Political Sociology of Security: Rethinking Theory and Practice(By: Trine Villumsen Berling) #55
2015 Reflexivity and International Relations: Positionality, Critique, and Practice(By: Jack L. Amoureux) #56
2015 A Practice of Ethics for Global Politics: Ethical Reflexivity(By: Jack L. Amoureux) #57
2016 The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations: Philosophy of Science and Its Implications for the Study of World Politics(By: Patrick Thaddeus Jackson) #58
2016 Nuclear Realism: Global political thought during the thermonuclear revolution(By: Rens van Munster) #59
2016 The Politics of Globality since 1945: Assembling the Planet(By: Rens van Munster) #60
2016 Evaluating Progress in International Relations: How do you know?(By: Patrick James,Ewan Harrison,Annette Freyberg-Inan) #61
2016 Russia and the Idea of Europe: A Study in Identity and International Relations(By: Iver B. Neumann) #62
2017 Memories of Empire and Entry into International Society: Views from the European periphery(By: Filip Ejdus) #63
2017 Great Power Multilateralism and the Prevention of War: Debating a 21st Century Concert of Powers(By: Harald Muller,Carsten Rauch) #64
2017 Deconstructing the Dynamics of World-Societal Order: The Power of Governmentality in Palestine(By: Jan Busse) #65
2018 Raymond Aron and International Relations(By: Olivier Schmitt) #66
2018 Coercive Sanctions and International Conflicts: A Sociological Theory(By: Mark Daniel Jaeger) #67
2018 Security, Defense Discourse and Identity in NATO and Europe: How France Changed Foreign Policy(By: Falk Ostermann) #68
2018 Kinship in International Relations(By: Iver B. Neumann,Kristin Haugevik) #69
2018 Special Relationships in World Politics: Inter-state Friendship and Diplomacy after the Second World War(By: Kristin Haugevik) #70
2018 The Use of Force under International Law: Lawyerized States in a Legalized World(By: Fernando G. Nu’ez-Mietz) #71
2018 Small States and Shelter Theory: Iceland’s External Affairs(By: Baldur Thorhallsson) #72
2019 Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy: Germany and the Iraq War(By: Jakub Eberle) #73
2019 Tactical Constructivism, Method, and International Relations(By: Oliver Kessler,Brent Steele,Harry Gould) #74
2019 International Relations Narratives: Plotting World Politics(By: Riikka Kuusisto) #75
2021 The Globality of Governmentality: Governing an Entangled World(By: Jan Busse) #76
2021 The Rhetoric of Inquiry in International Relations: A Hermeneutic Investigation into the Forms of Argumentation in International Relations Meta-Theory(By: Torsten Michel) #77
2021 Small States and Security in Europe: Between National and International Policymaking(By: Tom?s Weiss) #78
2023 Geoeconomics in International Relations: Neorealist and Neoliberal Conceptualizations(By: Christian Pfeiffer) #79
2023 Uncertainty in Global Politics(By: Anastasia Shesterinina,Miriam Matejova) #80
2023 Democratic Peace: A Historical and Cultural Practice(By: Jorg Kustermans) #81

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