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Emanuel Adler is one of the leading IR theorists of his generation. This volume brings together a collection of his articles, including four new and previously unpublished chapters.

What changes when a young child begins to leave toddlerhood behind? How do you keep track of your child's good and bad experiences at nursery and kindergarten and support her through them? What is the best way to cope with temper tantrums, and why do they happen?. Louise Emanuel presents practical tips and a great deal of emotional reassurance for both the first-time and the experienced parent. She offers helpful guidance on a range of topics, from managing sibling rivalry and ensuring everyone in the family gets a good night's sleep, to encouraging conversation and imaginative solitary and so

In Emanuel Adler's distinctive constructivist approach to international relations theory, international practices evolve in tandem with collective knowledge of the material and social worlds. This book - comprising a fresh selection of his journal publications, a substantial new introduction, three previously unpublished articles - points IR constructivism in a novel direction, characterized as 'communitarian'. Adler's synthesis does not herald the end of the nation-state; nor does it suggest that agency is unimportant in international life. Rather, it argues that what mediates between individual and state agency and social structures are communities of practice, which are the wellspring and repositories of collective meanings and social practices. The concept of communities of practice casts new light on epistemic communities and security communities, helping to explain why certain ideas congeal into human practices and others do not, and which social mechanisms can facilitate the emergence of normatively better communities.

Es gibt noch kein republikanisches Europa, und eine "Republik Europa" steht auch in Zukunft nicht zu erwarten. Aber die Entfaltung republikanischer Elemente in der Europäischen Union ist notwendig, um ihren anhaltenden Demokratiedefiziten abzuhelfen. Das Buch legt die normative Elle einer zeitgemäßen Theorie des Republikanismus an die gegenwärtigen Verlaufsformen der europäischen Integration und zeigt damit in einer neuartigen Pointierung die demokratischen Defizite der europäischen Einigung auf - den eklatanten Mangel an europäischem Republikanismus. Es setzt sich aber auch mit den vorhandenen Ansatzpunkten und Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten einer partizipatorischen Demokratie in der Europäischen Union auseinander und entwickelt auf der Basis des republikanischen Modells konkrete Handlungsanleitungen, die zu einer größeren Entfaltung von Demokratie erforderlich sind - im Sinne einer nachholenden Zivilisierung Europas