Critical Theory and World Politics

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
1 INTRODUCTION: LOCATING CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS TH......Page 14
On Contribution and Confusion......Page 15
Locating Critical International Relations Theory in Social T......Page 18
Locating Critical IR Theory Among the Alternative Approaches......Page 23
What Is Critical International Relations Theory For?......Page 28
Notes......Page 32
PART ONE THE CONTOURS OF CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS TH......Page 34
2 THE CHANGING CONTOURS OF CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS......Page 36
The Normative Domain......Page 38
The Sociological Domain......Page 44
The Praxeological Domain......Page 49
Conclusion......Page 55
Notes......Page 56
3 THE WAY AHEAD: TOWARD A NEW ONTOLOGY OF WORLD ORDER......Page 58
The Changing Social Structure of the World......Page 60
States and the State System......Page 62
The Biosphere......Page 64
Intersubjectivity: Civilizations and Forms of Political Econ......Page 65
Agency in Structural Transformation......Page 68
Notes......Page 72
4 CRITICAL THEORY AND THE DEMOCRATIC IMPULSE: UNDERSTANDING......Page 74
Egalitarian Concerns in International Relations......Page 75
Origins of the Academic Field......Page 76
Interwar Realism as Democratic Critique......Page 79
Behaviorist Peace Research as Democratic Challenge......Page 80
The Rise of Contemporary Critical Theory......Page 83
The Impossibility of a Detached Social Science......Page 84
Contemporary Critical Theory and Egalitarian Practice......Page 87
Notes......Page 88
PART TWO CRITIQUE IN CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY......Page 90
5 THE NATURE OF CRITIQUE IN CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS......Page 92
6 NEGATIVE DIALECTIC? THE TWO MODES OF CRITICAL THEORY IN WO......Page 104
Emancipation and Critical Theory in International Relations......Page 106
The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory......Page 107
The Achievements of Critical Theory......Page 109
Negative Dialectic?......Page 112
Emancipation, Critique, and Ambiguity......Page 115
Strategic Emancipation or Tactical Ethics?......Page 116
Conclusion......Page 119
Notes......Page 120
7 GLOBAL REALISM: UNMASKING POWER IN THE INTERNATIONAL POLIT......Page 124
Societal, or Real, Realism......Page 125
Societal Realism and International Relations......Page 128
Rationalities and Real Realism......Page 133
The Current Need for Realism......Page 135
8 WHAT'S CRITICAL ABOUT CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THE......Page 140
Assessing Critical IR Theory: Of  Tradition and Standards......Page 141
Conclusion......Page 156
Notes......Page 158
PART THREE THE PRACTICE AND PRAXIS OF CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL......Page 160
9 THE PRACTICE, AND PRAXIS, OF FEMINIST RESEARCH IN INTERNAT......Page 162
The Contributions......Page 163
The Project......Page 164
The Argument......Page 168
Notes......Page 172
10 DELIBERATIVE POLITICS, THE PUBLIC SPHERE, AND GLOBAL DEMO......Page 174
Notes......Page 183
11 CREATING COSMOPOLITAN POWER: INTERNATIONAL MEDIATION AS C......Page 184
Mediation in Our International System......Page 185
The Failures of Power Politics......Page 186
The Failures of Facilitation......Page 188
Creating Cosmopolitan Power......Page 191
The Radical Intimacy of the Hearth: Norway in the Middle Eas......Page 194
Notes......Page 199
PART FOUR COMMENTARIES......Page 202
12 "OUR SIDE"? CRITICAL THEORY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS......Page 204
Our Side and the Contested Legacy of Marx and Engels......Page 206
What Does It Mean to Be "Completely Scientific" Today?......Page 209
Two Sides, Many Sides? Critical International Theory-A Case......Page 212
Notes......Page 215
13 WHAT IS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS FOR? NOTESTOWARD A POSTCR......Page 218
The Idea of Steering......Page 221
Problems of Steering......Page 225
The Limits of Positivism and Critical Theory......Page 232
Conclusion......Page 235
Notes......Page 236
References......Page 238
The Contributors......Page 262
Index......Page 266
About the Book......Page 272