“…international relations perhaps allows us to stare more fixedly 41 Smith, 1992. 42 For a defence of global history's rise to prominence, see Drayton and Motadel, 2018. 43 Beckett, 2019;Bongie, 2016;Daut, 2015;Fischer, 2004;Gaffield, 2015;Popkin, 2010;Plummer, 2015. 44 Aydin, 2007;Bell, 2007Bell, , 2012Conrad and Sachsenmaier, 2012;Rosenboim, 2017. 45 Ikenberry, 2018;Hurrell, 2008;Clark, 2003. 46 Drolet and Williams, 2018. at the global as an ordering system of thought and political order, without being dragged down by the localizing impulses that remain, despite persistent efforts to the contrary, so powerful in sociology, history, political science, and anthropology.…”