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In recent years, a number of European countries abolished national border controls in favor of Europe's external frontiers. In doing so, they challenged long-established conceptions of sovereignty, territoriality, and security in world affairs. Setting forth a new analytic framework informed by constructivism and pragmatism, Ruben Zaiotti traces the transformation of underlying assumptions and cultural practices guiding European policymakers and postnational Europe, shedding light on current trends characterizing its politics and relations with others. The book also includes a fascinating comp

Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; QUESTIONS OF METHOD; CHAPTER TWO Facts and Principles; CHAPTER THREE Constructivism, Facts, and Moral Justification; CHAPTER FOUR Reason and the Ethos of a Late-Modern Citizen; LIBERALISM POLITICAL NEUTRALITY; CHAPTER FIVE The Moral Foundations of Liberal Neutrality; CHAPTER SIX Perfectionism in Politics: A Defense; LIBERALISM LIBERTY AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE; CHAPTER SEVEN Individualism and Libertarian Rights; CHAPTER EIGHT Left-Libertarianism and Liberty.

Foundational characteristics of qualitative research include flexibility, variation in application, critique, and innovation all of which derive from its subjective roots in interpretivism and constructivism. While the scholars who design qualitative research projects envision these qualities as strengths, such a breadth of practices and the assumptions that undergird them may present challenges during the peer review process. As a result, those who review and consume qualitative research often have important and difficult-to-answer questions about the project's design, strategies/tools, an

This volume considers recent studies that move beyond primordialism and its antithesis, social constructivism, to search for new insights to illuminate the nature of nationalism and its link to war. The authors also explore the role of shared interests, the history of peoples, elites and states, political imperatives, propaganda, and psychological predispositions. This combination provides a brillant, new look at nationalism and war-one that delves deeply into ethnic identity and the willingness of people to fight and die for nation-states.

Modern and professional communication is required to realise the goal of sustainability in society. This book develops a theoretical and empirical framework, integrating interdisciplinary perspectives from communications theory, psychology, sociology, educational sciences, systems theory and constructivism. Its aim is to inform the establishment of sustainability communication. Complementing this theoretical framework, the book provides methods and concepts in a range of fields such as corporate practice, education and media. The book addresses the scientific community and students as well as

The fourth edition of this innovative textbook introduces students to the main theories in international relations. It explains and analyzes each theory, allowing students to understand and critically engage with the myths and assumptions behind them. Each theory is illustrated using the example of a popular film.Key features of this textbook include: Discussion of all the main theories: realism and neo-realism, idealism and neo-idealism, liberalism, constructivism, postmodernism, gender, globalization, environmentalism, anarchism A new chapter on anarchism, debt and the Occupy Movement includ

Why does ethnicity matter in certain societies and contexts but not in others? Drawing on the boundary-making perspective first championed by anthropologist Fredrick Barth, Andreas Wimmer introduces a comparative analytic of ethnic group formation that overcomes essentialist approaches while also avoiding the pitfalls of excessive constructivism. Cautioning against seeing ethnicity and race wherever one looks, Wimmer shows how to disentangle ethnic and non-ethnic group formation processes and proposes a set of research designs, analytical principles, and strategies of interpretation appropriate for the task.

The study of international relations has changed rapidly in recent years. Firstly as a consequence of major political and economic change - the end of the cold war and the fall of communism, the resurgence of nationalism, terrorism and forms of fundamentalism, globalization - and secondly, linked with these developments, because of the vitality of the discipline, with ongoing debates on the fundamental paradigms for the understanding of international relations and the emergence of the perspectives of feminism, postmodernism, constructivism and critical theory.The Routledge Encyclopedia of Inte

Cover -- Contents -- List of Boxes, Tables and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Why Integrate? Theories of Integration -- 1 Original Debates -- 2 Neofunctionalism -- 3 Intergovernmentalism -- Part II: Mainstreaming European Studies -- 4 Institutionalist Approaches -- 5 Governance -- 6 Europeanization and Public Policy Transfer -- 7 Constructivism(s) -- 8 Sociological Perspectives on European Integration -- 9 Political Theory -- Part III: The European Union and the World -- 10 International Relations and European Integration -- 11 Comparing Forms of Regional Integration: Beyond European Studies -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Today religious concerns stand at the center of international politics, yet key paradigms in international relations, namely realism, liberalism, and constructivism, barely consider religion in their analysis of political subjects. Whether the issue is Islamic terrorism, the Christian Right's foreign policy predilections toward Israel and Southern Sudan, the complications of faith-based Western activism abroad, the potential destabilization of atheist China by the Dalai Lama and Falun Gong, or the threat Burmese monks pose to Myanmar's military regime, the rising prominence of religion challen

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION -- CREATIVE EMERGENCE, ORDER, AND CHAOS: GRAPPLING WITH THE COMPLEXITY OF COMPLEXITY THEORY -- THE DUAL-EDGED SWORD OF SIMPLISTIC REDUCTIONISM -- TRAPPED WITHIN METAPHORS -- AN OVERVIEW OF THE CONTENTS IN THE VOLUME -- REFERENCES -- SECTION 2: COMPLEXITY IN STEM PROCESSES AND STRUCTURES -- LEARNING: CREATION OR RE-CREATION? FROM CONSTRUCTIVISM TO THE THEORY OF DIDACTICAL SITUATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CREATION AND EDUCATION -- CREATION AT THE CROSSROADS OF PARADOXES -- MATHEMATICAL EDUCATION - CREATION OR REPRODUCTION? -- Example of a Situation -- CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF CONDITIONS OF CREATION: RESPONSIVENESS TO DIDACTICAL CONTRACT -- Methodology -- Didactical Environment and Responsiveness to Didactical Contract -- Analysis of Effects of Didactical Environments on Creativity -- Results and Comments -- Conditions of the Experiment -- Results and Comments -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INVESTIGATING MATHEMATICAL CREATIVITY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THROUGH THE LENS OF COMPLEXITY THEORY -- MATHEMATICAL CREATIVITY IN THE CLASSROOM -- THE CLASSROOM AS A COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEM -- CLASSROOM EPISODES -- Setting -- Episode 1: Internal Diversity, Redundancy, and Occasioning Mathematical Creativity -- Episode 2a: Balancing Stability and Change in a Fifth Grade Classroom -- Episode 2b: Adapting to the Emergence of Creativity -- Episode 3: How Can Insight Displayed by One Individual be Viewed through the Lens of Complexity Theory? -- RELATING COMPLEXITY THEORY TO EMERGENT CREATIVITY -- REFERENCES -- ON THE EDGE OF CHAOS: ROBOTS IN THE CLASSROOM -- HISTORY AND PROGRAMS -- LEGO MINDSTORMS Kits -- FIRST LEGO League -- Robotics in the Classroom -- Research on Robotics in the Classroom -- ROBOTICS, CONSTRUCTIVISM, AND THE EDGE OF CHAOS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

This significantly revised, updated and extended second edition of New Directions in US Foreign Policy retains the strongest aspects of its original structure but adds a comprehensive account of the latest theoretical perspectives, the key actors and issues, and new policy directions. Offering a detailed and systematic outline of the field, this text: Explains how international relations theories such as realism, liberalism and constructivism can help us to interpret US foreign policy under President Obama Examines the key influential actors shaping foreign policy, from political parties and

Contents Articles Frederic R. Kellogg: Hobbes, Holmes, and Dewey: Pragmatism and the Problem of Order Brian E. Butler: Dews, Dworks, and Poses Decide Lochner Sor-hoon Tan: Our Country Right or Wrong: A Pragmatic Response to Anti-Democratic Cultural Nationalism in China Stephen Harris: Antifoundationalism and the Commitment to Reducing Suffering in Rorty and Madhyamaka Buddhism Eric Thomas Weber: On Applying Ethics: Who's Afraid of Plato's Cave? William Gavin, Stefan Neubert, and Kersten Reich: Language and Its Discontents: William James, Richard Rorty, and Interactive Constructivism Matthew J

The past three decades have witnessed the emergence, at the forefront of political thought, of several Kantian theories. Both the critical reaction to consequentialism inspired by Rawlsian constructivism and the universalism of more recent theories informed by Habermasian discourse ethics trace their main sources of inspiration back to Kant's writings. Yet much of what is Kantian in contemporary theory is formulated with more or less strict caveats concerning Kant's metaphysics. These range from radical claims that theories of justice must be political, not metaphysical, to more cautious calls