This edited volume scrutinizes the politics of translation in international relations and its performative effects on the making of global orders. Translation has long been a concern in international relations and, more recently, a concern among scholars preoccupied with the ‘international’. From the first encounter with the ‘New World’, through the establishment of diplomatic relations, the spread of Western concepts and norms across global space, and the growth and subsequent fragmentation of international law, meaning constructions and social connections unfold in and through practices of translation. Across the chapters this volume looks at how translation is crucial for encounters in the international realm. The chapters in the volume focus on translations of IR concepts from one theoretical approach to another, translations of IR scholars into other languages, the dominance of English, and translations of concepts from theory to practice.  weiterlesen