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The New Constructivism in International Relations Theory
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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 โsociolatryโ
Moving beyond the โismsโ?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 Constructivismโs problematic dichotomies
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
2 The New Constructivism
Practice-relationalism: the New Constructivism
Practice theory, relationalism and practice-relationalism
Overcoming Constructivismโs 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 Onufโs 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 โterrorismโ
Diplomacy
The counter-piracy โassemblageโ
Framing Chinaโs 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
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