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The new constructivism in international relations theory /
Tracing constructivist work on culture, identity and norms within the historical, geographical and professional contexts of world politics, this book makes the case for new constructivist approaches to international relations scholarship.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- The New Constructivism in International Relations Theory
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Plan of the chapter
- Constructivism in International Relations: a constructivist stocktaking
- The social life of International Relations Constructivism
- The New Constructivism: overview of the main argument
- The core features of the New Constructivism
- Why bother?
- Likely criticisms: on paradigmatic thinking and 'sociolatry'
- Moving beyond the 'isms'?91
- Method, not madness
- Plan of the book
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Old Constructivism
- The virtues of the Old Constructivism16
- Culture and norms in international politics
- State identity and narrative knowing
- The narrowing of Constructivism
- The Old Constructivism's problematic dichotomies
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- 2 The New Constructivism
- Practice-relationalism: the New Constructivism
- Practice theory, relationalism and practice-relationalism
- Overcoming Constructivism's dualisms
- Russian foreign policy and the West: an illustration
- Conclusion
- 3 Rules, Law, and Language in the New Constructivism
- Introduction
- Language
- The body and the birth of the state
- Rules
- Practice, practices, and rules in international politics
- Rules all the way down
- Law
- Sovereignty between politics and law
- From the rule of law to rule through law
- Re-reading Onuf's World of Our Making
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- 4 World-Making: Experts and Professionals in the New Constructivism
- Introduction
- Beyond norm entrepreneurs and communities of practice
- Norm entrepreneurs and international political change
- Communities of practice
- Experts, expertise, and political interventions
- The peace industry
- Inventing 'terrorism'
- Diplomacy
- The counter-piracy 'assemblage'.
- Framing China's rise in the United States and the United Kingdom
- The US and UK national security fields and China
- Ending engagement in the United States and Britain
- Conclusion
- 5 New Constructivist Methodology and Methods
- Introduction
- Becoming a Constructivism user
- Constructivism as classic social analysis: implications for method
- Constructivism and computational social methods: the example of Multiple Correspondence Analysis
- Multiple Correspondence Analysis: the basics
- Using MCA: the field of American political consultants
- Deploying computational social relational methods
- Summary: what does MCA get us?
- Conclusion
- 6 Politics, Ethics, and Knowledge in the New Constructivism
- Introduction
- The question of Constructivist ethics
- Moral possibilities in world politics
- Identity and recognition in international politics
- The case for pragmatist constructivist ethics
- Constructivism and critical theory: or, does the New Constructivism have a politics?
- Post-colonialism and Constructivism
- Gender in the New Constructivism
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- 7 The New Constructivism as a Phronetic Social Science
- The historical poverty of neo-positivism
- International Relations, the philosophy of science, and the Cartesian anxiety
- History, political knowledge, and phronesis
- Conclusion: on the limits of phronetic IR
- Conclusion: The Space of Constructivism
- The space of Constructivism in contemporary US International Relations
- The science question, pragmatism, and the tragedy of the Constructivism
- The path ahead
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back Cover.