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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
During the International Studies Association 2012 annual convention in San Diego, the idea of a special section examining the emerging research agenda around 'Critical War Studies' was first considered.1 The interest for the roundtable entitled 'The Urgency of Studying War Again-Differently' highlighted a rising awareness among critical scholars of the acute importance of studying war on its own terms. Tarak Barkawi argued that International Relations (IR) does not truly study war when it seeks to pinpoint war's causes, correlate its statistics or theorize the interstate system's dynamics. Although war has been at the centre of IR research agenda since its inception, Barkawi argued that the discipline does not question its essence and its intrinsic generative power.
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