This book engages with the work of a Iver B. Neumann, demonstrating the past, present, and future importance of his work as a central IR scholar who set a path for younger researchers to make sense of international relations beyond traditional bounds.

Halvard Leira is Research Director and Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). He has published extensively in English and Norwegian on international political thought, historiography, foreign policy and diplomacy.

Alireza Shams Lahijani is a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Oslo, where he is researching conceptual history of international order. His research revolves around the history of modern international society, focusing on themes of diplomacy, identity, and temporality.

Einar Wigen is Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Oslo, where he works on political legitimacy and imperial legacies in Turkey, the Ottoman Empire and the wider Turkic world.

List of Contributors

1. Introduction: Of nomadism, diplomacy and the duty of not becoming a one-trick pony

Halvard Leira, Alireza Shams Lahijani & Einar Wigen

1. Of Selves and Others

Jens Bartelson

1. Folk theories of International Relations (or IR folks and their theories)

Rebecca Adler-Nissen

1. The Neumannian Methodology

Morten Skumsrud Andersen, Kristin Haugevik & Jon Harald Sande Lie

1. Iver Neumann, the feminist

Ann Towns

1. Critical Trade-offs in the Study of Difference and Otherness

Bahar Rumelili

1. The unlikely poststructuralist

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

1. "Kira at Bashi"

Dan Nexon & Patrick T Jackson

1. The attentive observer: Reading Identity on and from Russia

Anatoly Reshetnikov

1. Theorist and Provocateur: The Young Iver Neumann

Benjamin de Carvalho, Karsten Friis, Nina Græger

1. Wager upon wager

Vincent Pouliot and Ole Jacob Sending

1. Response

Iver B Neumann

Index