Making War, Making Sense? Debating Jens Bartelson’s War in International Thought

Funding

Asli Calkivik and Emma Hutchison co-author this introductory essay in their capacity as co-chairs of the ISA Theory Section Book Awards Committee for 2018. Asli Calkivik also concurrently served as Chair of the ISA Theory Section. Dr Hutchison was the previous recipient of the ISA Theory Section Book Award, having been awarded the prize for her book, Affective Communities in World Politics: Collective Emotions After Trauma (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016). The authors would like to acknowledge feedback and support from all members of the 2018 ISA Theory Section Book Awards Committee, namely Marta Bashovski, Aida Hozić and Russ Kerr. The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.