Overcoming Poststructuralism: Rawls, Kratochwil and the Structure of Normative Reasoning in International Relations

Front Matter....Pages i-v
Introduction: The ‘Enormous Creative Potential of Practical Reason’....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Inside/Outside: Walker, Ashley and the Poststructuralist Critique of IR....Pages 15-39
Overcoming the Poststructuralist Critique?....Pages 40-71
Constitutive Political Theory: Mervyn Frost and the Role of Norms in International Political Theory....Pages 72-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Beyond Coherence: Rawls’ Conception of Public Reason....Pages 93-117
Contemporary Moral Foundationalism: Buchanan’s Conception of Normative Reasoning and the Role of Institutions in Political Justification....Pages 118-142
Philosophical Constructivism and Critical Constructivism Combined: Kratochwil’s Account of the Conditions of Practical Reasoning and the Rawlsian Conception of Public Reason....Pages 143-181
The Concept of the Reasonable in International Political Justification: A Rejoinder to the Poststructuralist Critique....Pages 182-243
Conclusion: Poststructuralism and Beyond....Pages 244-245
Back Matter....Pages 246-281