Rogue states' have been high on the policy agenda for many years but their theoretical significance for international relations has remained poorly understood. In contrast to the bulk of writings on 'rogue states' that address them merely as a policy challenge, this book studies what we can learn from deviance about international politics.

Bernd Bucher, University of Bielefeld, GermanyLuigi Corrias, VU University Amsterdam, The NetherlandsGunther Hellmann, Goethe University, GermanyDaniel Jacobi, Goethe University Frankfurt, GermanyJorg Kustermans, Flemish Peace Institute, BrusselsAkan Malici, Furman University, USAStephen G. Walker, Arizona State University, USAChristian Weber, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, GermanyCarmen Wunderlich, Peace Research Institute, Germany

Foreword 1. Rogues, Pariahs, Outlaws: Theorizing Deviance in International Relations; Wolfgang Wagner, Wouter Werner and Michal Onderco 2. Roguery and Citizenship; Jorg Kustermans 3. Guises of Sovereignty: 'Rogue States' and Democratic States in the International Legal Order; Luigi Corrias 4. Liberal Rogues: The pitfalls of great power collaboration and the stigmatization of revolutionary Naples in post-Napoleonic Europe; Bernd Bucher 5. A 'Rogue' Gone Norm Entrepreneurial? Iran within the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime; Carmen Wunderlich 6. Dissident Foreign Policy and the (Re-)Production of International Orders; Daniel Jacobi, Christian Weber and Gunther Hellmann 7. Role Theory and Rogue States; Akan Malici and Stephen G. Walker 8. Rehabilitation or Exclusion? A Criminological Perspective on Policies towards 'Rogue States'; Wolfgang Wagner 9. From a 'rogue' to a parolee: Analyzing the Libya's 'de-roguing'; Michal Onderco 10. International Law, Renegade Regimes, and the Criminalization of Enmity; Wouter Werner