In the past few years the relative success of international political sociology as an intellectual project has stimulated debates about its contribution to international studies. With this issue we celebrate ten years of International Political Sociology. The journal was created in 2006, with the first issue published in 2007. It has been an intellectually fascinating ride. Since its beginnings, IPS sought to engage the “problem of the international” by questioning practices that delimit a realm with clear boundaries as grounds for making claims about world politics (Bigo and Walker 2007a,b). As such, it tried to articulate a strategy of openness and transversality that would circulate through, and connect, various intellectual terrains and could be filled in multiple ways (Lisle in this volume; Basaran et al. 2016; de Goede forthcoming; Guillaume and Bilgin forthcoming; Guzzini forthcoming; Leander 2016; Villumsen Berling 2015). In fact, IPS is not really an approach, let alone a school of thought, but more a signifier that connects people sharing a disposition toward traversing familiar, institutionalized repertoires of analysis; toward re-conceptualizing and displacing the questions that can be asked, the methods that can be used, the styles of arguing that are acceptable. The particular forms this disposition takes depend on the lineages one draws on to do such transversal research. While this disposition has produced a rich and diverse conversation around innovative themes and strategies, we try to resist the tendency, not uncommon in intellectual movements such as IPS, to a certain normalization around empirically grounded research inspired by the shift to sociological, analytical, and methodological practices (see Lisle in this volume). We therefore decided to use our introduction as a singular interference into the field rather than a state of the art of ten years of International Political Sociology . …

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IPS十年：IR破裂

在过去的几年中，国际政治社会学作为智力项目的相对成功激发了关于其对国际研究的贡献的辩论。在本期杂志中，我们庆祝国际政治社会学十周年。该杂志创建于2006年，第一期于2007年出版。从一开始，IPS就通过质疑界限分明的领域作为主张世界政治的依据来寻求“国际问题”的介入（Bigo和Walker 2007a，b）。因此，它试图阐明一种开放性和横向性策略，该策略将在各种知识领域中流通和连接，并且可以通过多种方式进行填充（本卷中的Lisle; Basaran等人，2016年; de Goede即将出版; 纪尧姆（Guillaume）和比尔金（Bilgin）即将到来；Guzzini即将推出；利安德2016; Villumsen Berling，2015年）。实际上，IPS并不是一种真正的方法，更不用说是一种思想流派了，它更是一个标志，它使有共同倾向的人们能够遍历熟悉的，制度化的分析方法。重新概念化和替代可以提出的问题，可以使用的方法，可以接受的争论方式。这种配置采取的特殊形式取决于人们进行这样的横向研究所遵循的谱系。尽管这种倾向围绕创新主题和策略引起了广泛而多样的对话，但我们试图抵制这种趋势，这种趋势在以IPS为基础的以知识为基础的研究中得到一定的归一化，这种趋势在IPS等智力运动中并不罕见。分析和方法实践（请参阅本卷中的Lisle）。因此，我们决定将介绍作为对本领域的单一干预，而不是将其作为十年国际政治社会学的最新水平。…