Badie before Badie. How Comparative Historical Sociology Informed his Approach to International Relations
There are two Badie, the specialist in state sociology and comparative historical sociology and the specialist in the sociology of international relations. The objective of this article is to expose the elements of continuity between the two Badie. Indeed, when Bertrand Badie embarked on his internationalist shift in the early 1990s, the lessons he learned from his analyses in comparative politics remained central to his analysis. The result of this import from one disciplinary field to another represents one of Bertrand Badie’s major contributions to the study of international relations. These contributions explain why the Badie’s perspective on international relations differs significantly from the dominant perspectives on international relations of the time.