Jens Steffek

Anarchy versus organization: how the social science of International Relations emerged from controversies over war, evolution, and Darwinism

Abstract In this article, we show how IR’s central debate about international anarchy emerged from controversies over war, evolution and Darwinism that took place around 1900. It was a chiefly European debate between apologists of war – polemically called ‘Social Darwinists’ – an...