ABSTRACT
Associating friendship and hospitality may not seem especially odd. After all, the organizers of a conference on international political theory (for which I wrote this essay) conjoined these terms as an “indicative theme.” Yet treating friendship and hospitality as comparable categories seems to me, as a scholar in the field of international relations, to be a mistake. Clarifying what I think is wrong points up the needlessly arbitrary, altogether odd limits that scholars in two fields— international relations and political theory—have imposed on themselves (and each other).
