

Professor
Jens Bartelson received his doctorate from the University of Stockholm in 1993. His fields of interest include international political theory, the history of political thought, political philosophy and social theory. Jens Bartelson has written mainly about the concept of the sovereign state, the philosophy of world community, and the concept of war in international thought.
He is the author of War in International Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Visions of World Community (Cambridge University Press, 2009), The Critique of the State (Cambridge University Press, 2001), A Genealogy of Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 1995), as well as of articles in leading journals in international relations, international law, political theory, and sociology.
Publications
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Review of 'War, States, and International Order: Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War' by Claire Vergerio.
Jens Bartelson
(2023) Perspectives on Politics, 21
ReviewWar and the turn to history in international relations
Jens Bartelson
(2021) Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations , p.127-137
Book chapterThe Ironies of Misrecognition
Jens Bartelson
(2021) The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty : Political Imagination beyond the State
Book chapterWar and the Turn to History
Jens Bartelson
(2020) STANCE Working Paper Series, 2020-2021 p.1-21
Working paperIntroduction : Forum on Adom Getachew’s ‘Worldmaking after Empire’
Jens Bartelson, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
(2020) Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 48 p.334-339
Journal article (comment)Cosmos and Conquest: Precursors of Iberian Overseas Expansion, c. 1500-1600
Jens Bartelson
(2019) STANCE Working Paper Series, 2019 p.1-25
Working paperA Reply to My Critics : War and Historical Ontology
Jens Bartelson
(2019) Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 48 p.105-114
Journal articleIntroduction: de-centering state making
Martin Hall, Jens Bartelson, Jan Teorell
(2018) De-Centering State Making : Comparative and International Perspectives , p.1-16
Book chapterIntroduction : De-centering state making
Jens Bartelson, Martin Hall, Jan Teorell
(2018) De-Centering State Making : Comparative and International Perspectives , p.1-14
Book chapterDe-centering state making : Comparative and international perspectives
Jens Bartelson, Martin Hall, Jan Teorell
(2018)
BookEmpire and State in Early Modern Political Thought
Jens Bartelson
(2018) STANCE Working Papers Series, 2018 p.1-46
Working paperForum : In the beginning there was no word (For It): Terms, concepts, and early sovereignty
Julia Costa Lopez, Benjamin De Carvalho, Andrew A. Latham, Ayse Zarakol, Jens Bartelson, et al.
(2018) International Studies Review, 20 p.489-519
Journal articleAfter de-centering: a new research agenda for state making
Jens Bartelson, Jan Teorell
(2018) De-Centering State Making : Comparative and International Perspectives , p.218-232
Book chapterFrom the International to the Global?
Jens Bartelson
(2018) The SAGE Handbook of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations
Book chapterEnding empire : Lusotropicalism as an imperial ideology
Jens Bartelson
(2017) The Art of World-Making: Nicholas Greenwood Onuf and his Critics , p.248-261
Book chapterThat Brutal Uncivilizer of Nations
Jens Bartelson
(2017) Critical Analysis of Law, 4 p.152-159
Journal articleThe language of law and the laws of language
Jens Bartelson
(2016) Millennium, 44 p.250-257
Journal articleSovereignty
Jens Bartelson
(2016) Critical Imaginations in International Relations , p.182-194
Book chapterOm genealogins möjligheter och begränsningar som historisk metod
Jens Bartelson
(2016) Historiens Hemvist
Book chapterBlasts from the Past: War and Fracture in the International System
Jens Bartelson
(2016) International Political Sociology, 10 p.352-368
Journal articleRecognition : A Short History
Jens Bartelson
(2016) Ethics and International Affairs, 30 p.303-321
Journal article reviewTowards a genealogy of 'society' in International Relations
Jens Bartelson
(2015) Review of International Studies, 41 p.675-692
Journal articleAcabando con el Imperio: Lusotropicalismo como ideología imperial
Jens Bartelson
(2015) Relaciones Internacionales
Journal articleSovereignty and the Personality of the State
Jens Bartelson
(2015) The Concept of the State in International Relations: : Philosophy, Sovereignty, and Cosmopolitanism , p.81-107
Book chapterSovereignty as Symbolic Form
Jens Bartelson
(2015) Historical International Relations : The State in Historical Perspective, 3
Book chapterInternational theory meets intellectual history
Jens Bartelson
(2014) Contemporary Political Theory, 13 p.392-397
Journal article (comment)From Empire to Sovereignty-and Back?
Jens Bartelson
(2014) Ethics and International Affairs, 28 p.251-262
Journal article reviewSymposium 'The politics of international recognition'
Hans Agne, Jens Bartelson, Eva Erman, Thomas Lindemann, Benjamin Herborth, et al.
(2013) International Theory, 5 p.94-107
Journal articleThree concepts of recognition
Jens Bartelson
(2013) International Theory, 5 p.107-129
Journal articleFunctional Differentiation and Legitimate Authority
Jens Bartelson
(2013) Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance , p.41-57
Book chapterWhat is wrong with the world?
Jens Bartelson
(2011) Contemporary Political Theory, 10 p.288-290
Journal article (comment)On the Indivisibility of Sovereignty
Jens Bartelson
(2011) Republic of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts, 2
Journal articleSovereignty
Jens Bartelson
(2011) The International Encyclopedia of Political Science
Article in encyclopediaWays of Warmaking
Jens Bartelson
(2011) Rethinking Time: Essays on Historical Consciousness, Memory, and Representation
Book chapterIntroduction
Terrell Carver, Jens Bartelson
(2010) Globality, Democracy and Civil Society , p.1-10
PrefaceThe Social Construction of Globality
Jens Bartelson
(2010) International Political Sociology, 4 p.219-235
Journal articleDouble Binds: Sovereignty and the Just War Tradition
Jens Bartelson
(2010) Sovereignty in Fragments: The Past, Present and Future of a Contested Concept
Book chapterGlobality, Democracy, and Civil Society
(2010) Democratization studies ; 17
BookBeyond Democratic Legitimacy: Global Governance and the Promotion of Liberty
Jens Bartelson
(2010) Transnational Actors in Global Governance: patterns, explanations and implications
Book chapterIntroduction : The future of political community
Gideon Baker, Jens Bartelson
(2009) The Future of Political Community , p.1-12
PrefaceIs there a Global Society?
Jens Bartelson
(2009) International Political Sociology, 3 p.112-115
Journal articleThe Future of Political Community
(2009) Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ; 58
BookGlobalising the Democratic Community
Jens Bartelson
(2009) The Future of Political Community
Book chapterGlobalizing the Democratic Community
Jens Bartelson
(2008) Ethics & Global Politics, 1 p.159-174
Journal articleSovereignty Before and After the Linguistic Turn
Jens Bartelson
(2008) Sovereignty Games: Instrumentalizing State Sovereignty In Europe And Beyond , p.33-45
Conference paperWe could remember it for you wholesale : Myths, monuments and the constitution of national memories
Jens Bartelson
(2006) Memory, Trauma and World Politics : Reflections on the Relationship Between Past and Present , p.33-53
Book chapterMaking sense of global civil society
Jens Bartelson
(2006) European Journal of International Relations, 12 p.371-395
Journal articleThree concepts of globalization
Jens Bartelson
(2000) International Sociology, 15 p.180-196
Journal articleSecond natures : Is the state identical with itself?
Jens Bartelson
(1998) European Journal of International Relations, 4 p.295-326
Journal articleMaking Exceptions : Some Remarks on the Concept of Coup d’état and its History
Jens Bartelson
(1997) Political Theory, 25 p.323-346
Journal articleShort circuits : Society and tradition in international relations theory
Jens Bartelson
(1996) Review of International Studies, 22 p.339-360
Journal articleTvå fallstudier: USA lämnar ILO och Unesco
Erik Ringmar, Jens Bartelson
(1985) FN vid fyrtio: internationellt samarbete i kris , p.51-82
Book chapter