This edited volume brings back key thinkers whose work is foundational for the discipline of International Relations. International Relations is as much a conversation with the living as with the dead, and The Return of the Theorists presents forty dialogues with key thinkers that shaped the field, conducted by renowned contemporary IR scholars.

This edited volume brings back key thinkers whose work is foundational for the discipline of International Relations. International Relations is as much a conversation with the living as with the dead, and The Return of the Theorists presents forty dialogues with key thinkers that shaped the field, conducted by renowned contemporary IR scholars.