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international sphere which has created a sense of the end of the ‘inside/outside’ dichotomy. When the academic community’s subjective hopes for change are projected outside the formal political sphere of state-based politics there is little inclination to look too closely, or critically, at whether the international sphere is, in fact, open to these aspirations. International Relations practitioners are in this way reflecting the broader political trends in Western society. However, the challenge is not merely that of attempting to suggest an alternative explanation for why the death of the political binaries of International Relations has been so vociferously proclaimed. I would argue that the intellectual task of those involved in the discipline is to reassert the importance of International Relations as a specific political discipline. By this I do not mean defending ‘realism’, ‘rationalism’ or ‘positivism’ but changing the terms of debate and establishing a set of intellectual tools and approaches which can establish International Relations as a vital and vibrant political discipline. One which can challenge not only the attempts to import into the international sphere, and in the process ‘hollow-out’, the ‘inside’ political concepts of democracy, citizenship, and individual legal and political rights but also draw out the flip-side of this process, the degrading of the political gains of the domestic political sphere. Rebuilding International Relations as a political discipline is vital to inform and to explain political engagement with both the ‘inside’ and the ‘outside’. References 24
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