The Future of International Relations: Masters in the Making?

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
Tables......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Foreword......Page 13
Series editor’s preface......Page 14
1  Figures of international thought: introducing persons instead of paradigms......Page 15
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF SELECTION......Page 17
CONTENT AND CHARACTER OF THE CHAPTERS......Page 19
FATHERS, DEBATES AND PARADIGMS......Page 21
THE INTERPARADIGMATIC TRIANGLE: A COMMANDING METAPHOR......Page 26
MOVEMENTS IN THE 1980s AND 1990s......Page 29
1......Page 30
2......Page 31
3......Page 36
LEVELS OF EXISTENCE IN IR......Page 40
NOTES......Page 44
REFERENCES......Page 48
2  John Vincent and the English School of International Relations......Page 55
‘IF SOVEREIGNTY, THEN NON-INTERVENTION’......Page 59
‘EITHER REALPOLITIK AND WORLD COMMUNITY, OR NO WORLD COMMUNITY’......Page 66
‘…A TRANSFORMATION FROM INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS TO WORLD POLITICS’......Page 72
CONCLUSION......Page 76
NOTES......Page 79
Works by John Vincent......Page 81
Works by other authors......Page 82
3 Kenneth Waltz: a critical rationalist between international politics and foreign policy......Page 85
WALTZ’S THEORY: SURVEY AND INTERPRETATION......Page 86
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: AN INTERPRETATION......Page 89
Anti-positivism/anti-inductivism......Page 90
The virtue of simplicity......Page 91
Anti-holism/anti-historicism......Page 92
Meeting reality: falsificationism—or what?......Page 93
EPISTEMOLOGY MAKES A DIFFERENCE......Page 94
RESPONDING TO CRITICS......Page 96
THEORY MEETS REALITY......Page 97
WALTZ AND POLARITY IN TRANSITION......Page 101
NOTES......Page 103
Works by Kenneth N. Waltz......Page 107
Works by other authors......Page 108
4  Robert O.Keohane: a contemporary classic......Page 110
THE FIRST CAMPAIGN: TRANSNATIONALISM AND INTERDEPENDENCE......Page 111
THE SECOND CAMPAIGN: A FUNCTIONAL THEORY OF REGIMES......Page 115
THE THIRD CAMPAIGN: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONALISE......Page 122
CONCLUDING REMARKS: KEOHANE AND THE—ISMS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS......Page 131
EPILOGUE: HOW TO DO BUSINESS IN IR......Page 135
NOTES......Page 136
Works by Robert O.Keohane......Page 138
Works by other authors......Page 140
5  Robert Gilpin: the realist quest for the dynamics of power......Page 143
The utility function of security, power and wealth......Page 147
Individual or group permanence?......Page 148
The changed modern international political economy......Page 150
Definition and ideologies of IPE......Page 152
State dynamics: the dialogue between Lenin and Clausewitz......Page 154
Socioeconomic dynamics: the dialogue between Marx and Keynes......Page 156
IPE dynamics: the dialogue between Lenin and Kautsky......Page 157
INTERNATIONAL LIBERAL ORDER AFTER THE DECLINE OF THE PAX AMERICANA......Page 159
THE LIMITS OF NEO-MERCANTILIST IPE......Page 161
NOTES......Page 164
Works by Robert Gilpin......Page 166
Works by other authors......Page 167
6  Bertrand Badie: cultural diversity changing international relations?......Page 169
The expression of a crisis......Page 170
The missing elements: history and culture......Page 172
Towards a historical sociology of culture......Page 174
POLITICAL CULTURE IN PRACTICE: THE STATE......Page 175
The western state: practising politicsBadie and Birnbaum consider the duality of the secular and the religious common to western European political thinking. The Church and the Prince opposed each other ‘precisely on the grounds of a duality of categories which all the actors accept, recognize a priori’ (1983:98). This, according to Badie, remains the case throughout the history of Christianity, including the absolutist period and the Reformation.6 Since duality is a shared assumption, variations......Page 176
The state in the ‘land of Islam’: thinking politics......Page 177
The ‘imported state’: managing change......Page 180
The reversal of International Relations......Page 183
A plurality of rationalities......Page 184
The revenge of the actor on the system......Page 185
Français malgré lui?......Page 187
In the camp of the challengers......Page 188
CONCLUSION......Page 190
NOTES......Page 191
Works by Bertrand Badie......Page 192
Works by other authors......Page 193
INTRODUCTION......Page 196
PARADIGMS, QUESTIONS AND ORGANIZATION......Page 197
The substantial argument......Page 198
IR paradigms......Page 200
Ontology......Page 201
The substantial argument......Page 202
The substantial argument......Page 204
Ontology......Page 206
Embedded liberalism......Page 207
The substantial argument......Page 210
Ontology......Page 212
American foreign policy, the UN, peace-keeping and collective security......Page 214
The substantial argument......Page 215
IR paradigms......Page 218
Ontology......Page 219
AN EMERGING THEORY OF TRANSFORMATIONS......Page 220
CONCLUSION: TRANSFORMING INSTITUTIONALIZED LIBERALISM IN IR......Page 223
NOTES......Page 226
Works by John Gerard Ruggie......Page 228
Works by other authors......Page 230
8 Hayward Alker: an exemplary voyage from quantitative peace research to humanistic, late-modern globalism......Page 234
THE FIRST LESSON: HOW TO COLLECT AND ANALYSE ‘DATA’......Page 238
THE SECOND LESSON: HOW TO ANALYSE AND HELP TO SOLVE COLLECTIVE DILEMMAS......Page 242
LESSON THREE: HOW TO BROADEN AND DEEPEN SCIENTIFICALLY RELEVANT MODELLING APPROACHES......Page 247
THE FOURTH LESSON: HOW TO THEORIZE HISTORY......Page 253
SOME PROBLEMS AND LIMITATIONS OF ALKER’S APPROACH......Page 255
A BRIEF SUMMARY AND A FEW CONCLUDING REMARKS......Page 258
NOTES......Page 259
Works by Hayward R.Alker, Jr......Page 261
Works by other authors......Page 266
9  Nicholas G.Onuf: the rules of anarchy......Page 268
FROM LEVIATHAN ON A WORLD SCALE TO THE QUESTION OF SOCIAL ORDER......Page 270
POSITIVIST LEGALISM, THE HOBBESIAN PARADIGM AND THE QUESTION OF ANARCHY—OR THE LIBERAL ORIGINS OF IR REALISM......Page 274
CONSTRUCTIVISM: ON WORLD-MAKING THROUGH DAILY PRACTICE......Page 281
CONCLUSION: FROM STATIC TO DYNAMIC CONSTRUCTIVISM?......Page 289
NOTES......Page 293
Works by Nicholas G.Onuf......Page 297
Works by other authors......Page 299
INTRODUCTION......Page 304
A sociology of world politics......Page 305
The agent-structure problem......Page 306
Scientific realism......Page 308
Critical assessment......Page 310
Constructivism and the international system......Page 313
Social interaction and the state......Page 315
Critical assessment......Page 317
CONCLUSION: TWO MODES OF THOUGHT......Page 319
NOTES......Page 321
Works by Alexander Wendt......Page 322
Works by other authors......Page 323
11  Jean Bethke Elshtain: traversing the terrain between......Page 326
PERSONAL CONCERNS: TRAVERSING THE BETWEEN OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE......Page 328
THEORETICAL APPROACH: THE ELUSIVE TRAIL OF MEANING......Page 330
PUBLIC MAN, PRIVATE WOMAN......Page 334
Shared grammars: patriarchy and feminism......Page 337
WOMEN AND WAR......Page 339
THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL......Page 343
CONCLUSIONS......Page 347
NOTES......Page 349
Works by Jean Bethke Elshtain......Page 351
Works by other authors......Page 352
12  R.B.J.Walker and International Relations: deconstructing a discipline......Page 353
THE THEORETICAL PROJECT: DECONSTRUCTING THE PRINCIPLE OF STATE SOVEREIGNTY......Page 356
The status of dichotomies......Page 357
The end of state sovereignty?......Page 360
EXPLAINING THE DISCIPLINE......Page 361
Critical social movements: the quest for alternatives......Page 364
From national to world security......Page 366
CONCLUSION......Page 369
NOTES......Page 370
Works by R.B.J.Walker......Page 371
Works by other authors......Page 373
13  James Der Derian: the unbearable lightness of theory......Page 375
Post-classicalism......Page 376
Poststructuralism......Page 377
Genealogy......Page 379
Intertext......Page 380
THE MEDIATION OF WESTERN ESTRANGEMENT5......Page 381
Alienation, mediation and diplomatic culture......Page 382
A genealogy of western estrangement and diplomatic theory......Page 383
Symptomology of late- or postmodern conditions of estrangement and its mediation......Page 386
Surveillance......Page 387
The politicization of speed......Page 388
Simulation......Page 390
DISCLOSING IR-ir: OR, ABOUT DESIRE AND ETHOS......Page 391
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF DER DERIAN’S WRITINGS......Page 392
NOTES......Page 393
Works by James Der Derian......Page 395
Works by other authors......Page 396
14  Conclusion......Page 398
THE STUFF OF IR THEORIZING......Page 400
THE CARE OF THE IR SELF......Page 402
THE WEAVE OF IR......Page 405
REFERENCES......Page 409
Index......Page 411