ABSTRACT
With all that has been written on international relations in the history of the field that bears its name, one would think that there is nothing else left to be said, theoretically anyway, that represents anything more than the clichéd ‘putting old wine into new bottles’. Yet, to briefly extend that metaphor, sometimes scholars come along who say something creative by blending the wine in unique ways. They do so to such effect that we really couldn't care less how old, popular, or worn-out each ‘component’ wine is that went into the blend — because the outcome, its product and what it does for us is so crisp, sharp and useful, that we know we have consumed something so new that it surely will alter the field. Such achievements make it possible to the world and the arrangements through which humans have confronted violence differently as both more dangerous and fragile, as well as more hopeful, stable and secure, than we previously considered.
