ABSTRACT
The chapter proposes a modest intellectual project – a global history of international thought – that builds on the legacies of Martin Wight and Sussex international relations (IR) as an ongoing endeavor to subvert the still paradigmatic, but parochial, understanding of the "international" that continues to hinder the healthy development of the discipline. In 1965, translational relations and complex interdependence were only just knocking at the door of the discipline. If multinational companies had begun to make their impact felt in world economy, the entry of "globalization" into the lexicon of the discipline was still decades away. In 2015, the future of IR had fast receded into the past. The Future of International Relations: Masters in the Making published no earlier than in 1997 – which purported to offer a glimpse of the future of the discipline – can probably now be better read as part of the disciplinary historiography.
