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This book examines succinctly the substantive assumptions of each one of the main international relations theories, namely Realism, liberalism, constructivism, the English school, critical theory and idealism, against China's choices and behavior as an international actor.

This book uses three controversial contemporary American foreign policy problems to introduce students to the 'new debates' in international relations, in which the criticisms of constructivism, interpretivism, and postmodernism are presented against traditional positivist concepts of social science.

Inhaltsverzeichnis: JDP – Constructivism – Transformational shift – Traditional – New foreign policy – Domestic – Convergent – Instrumentalism and expediency – Value – Clash of identities, – Secularists –Islamists 1. Erdoğan's New Turkey – Identity Matrix – Transformation – A New Islamist State – Emergence of Erdoğanism – Demise of Kemalism.

Explores the application of constructivist theory to international relations. The text examines the relevance of constructivism for empirical research, focusing on some of the key issues of contemporary international politics: ethnic and national identity; gender; and political economy

Explores the application of constructivist theory to international relations. The text examines the relevance of constructivism for empirical research, focusing on some of the key issues of contemporary international politics: ethnic and national identity; gender; and political economy

In this volume, Richard Ned Lebow introduces his own constructivist theory of political order and international relations based on theories of motives and identity formation drawn from the ancient Greeks. His theory stresses the human need for self-esteem, and shows how it influences political behavior at every level of social aggregation. Lebow develops ideal-type worlds associated with four motives: appetite, spirit, reason and fear, and demonstrates how each generates a different logic concerning cooperation, conflict and risk-taking. Expanding and documenting the utility of his theory in a series of historical case studies, ranging from classical Greece to the war in Iraq, he presents a novel explanation for the rise of the state and the causes of war, and offers a reformulation of prospect theory. This is a novel theory of politics by one of the world's leading scholars of international relations

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- The Illegal Drug Trade in Global Security: Theories, Traits, and Trends -- Realism: Power Politics -- Liberalism -- Marxism: Beyond Class Warfare -- Social Constructivism: Ideas Matter -- Chapter Outline -- Conclusion -- Questions to Consider -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 2 The History of Drug Trafficking -- The State and Organized Crime -- Weak, Fragile, and Failed States -- Drug Trafficking and the State: The History of Drug Trafficking -- Levels of Analysis and Theoretical Significance: Applying Theories to the History -- Realism, Liberalism, and Constructivism: The State and the International System -- Realism -- Liberalism -- Constructivism -- Marxist Perspectives -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 3 Production Centers -- The Evolution of Drug Production and Trafficking -- Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Colombia -- State Fragility: Continued Collusion Between Organized Crime, Politicians, and Security Forces in Colombia -- Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in Mexico -- Mexican Cartels, Drug Smuggling, and Fentanyl -- Theoretical Approach and Application -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 4 Transit Centers -- Gangs, Drug Trafficking, and Corruption: The Case of El Salvador -- Recent Trends in Salvadoran State Corruption and Collusion with Criminal Groups: The Symbiotic Relationship Between the State and Organized Crime at the Highest Level of Office -- Pressure to Combat Drug Trafficking and Gangs: Securitizing MS-13 -- Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Violence in Honduras -- Theoretical Analysis and Applications -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- Further Readings -- 5 Terrorism and Organized Crime -- The Terrorist-Organized Crime Connection.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Iran in an Emerging New World Order -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- (A) Studying Iran's International Relations Amid Changing International and Domestic Power Relations -- External Dialectic: Exploring the International Geography of Power (World Order) -- Brief Account of International, Domestic and Regional Arenas -- Discussing Iran's International Relations Beyond the Iran-U.S. Stand-off -- (B) Structure of the Book -- Bibliography -- A -- B -- P -- Official Documents (Excerpts) -- Chapter 2: A Critical Geopolitics of International Relations: A Theoretical Derivation -- Introduction -- Iran's Geostrategic Location: A Salient Spot of Geopolitical Rivalry -- Broad Consensus in Iranian Foreign-Policy Studies: Interplay Between Structure/Culture and Internal/External -- (A) Engaging with the "Constructivist Turn" in IR Theory: On Constructivism and Critical Geopolitics -- Blind Spots on the Realist Radar -- Critical Geopolitics: Critically Investigating Geopolitical Representations -- Constructivism: The Social Construction of National Interests -- The Construction of Interests: Primacy of Ideational or Material Underpinnings? -- IR Scholarship in the IRI: Geopolitics and Constructivism -- (B) Outlining a Critical Geopolitics of International Relations: Defining the Agent-System Arrangement -- Summary -- The Agent: The State and Its Foreign-Policy Élite -- The System Level: An Increasingly Multipolar International System-From Unipolarity to Imperial Interpolarity -- Theory -- The Dialectic Construction of Foreign-Policy Culture -- Agent: The State and Its Élite -- The State-Society Complex -- The Élite -- The Power Élite: Some Conceptual Clarifications -- Élite Consciousness.

The Practice of Social Science: Implications for Researcher Accountability -- A Reconsideration of Constructivism: Discursive Accountability Explored -- Exploring Experimentation -- Exploring Survey Research -- Exploring the Ethnographic Study of Lives -- Exploring Action Research -- Conclusion: Accounting for Different Conceptions of Accountability in Social Research.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Rousseau's tragic conception of freedom -- Freedom and method -- Outline -- 1. The Future of Freedom -- The freedom-machine -- Bits, genes, and (freedom-)machines -- Linux as iconic for altruism -- Selfishness -- 2. Science and Society -- Critique of progress -- Hobbes and social constructivism -- Rousseau, social constructivism and its extension to the social contract -- Knowing nature -- Rousseau as an immodest witness on education -- Nature, science and colonialism -- Conclusion -- 3. Social Contracting and Freedom -- Introduction -- The method and the contract -- Social contracting, in between Rousseau and STS -- Let's not be modern/or the legacy of the general will -- Equality and governing -- Pacts and properties -- Method and truth -- Our own attempt at Enlightenment -- Freedom machines and beyond -- Freedom and security -- Freedom and the natural world -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

"This volume advocates a shift from the social constructivism found in the work of Thomas Luckmann and Peter Berger, to a communicative constructivism that acknowledges communication as an embodied form of action in its own right, according to which social actors, in engaging in communicative action, construct a material social reality that guides, delimits and enables actions. A study of the importance of understanding the role of communication in an age in which digitisation and mediatisation have extended the reach of communication to a global level and brought about the emergence of the communication society, The Communicative Construction of Reality shows how the communication society does not merely replace modern society and its hierarchical institutions, but complements it in a manner that continually results in conflicts. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in the sociology of knowledge, communication and social theory"--

The study of the EU's security and defence policy has until now lacked a comprehensive yet thorough and accessible volume on theoretical debates in the field. This timely volume addresses this and is an engaging assessment of the discussions about the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy. It brings together leading scholars in the field who present their respective theoretical viewpoints and illustrate how each has informed their empirical explorations. Pluralistic in its approach, the volume emphasizes the role of conceptual diversity for better explaining the EU's CSDP. It is a broad-range up-to-date survey that speaks to many of the theoretical debates in the field, including mainstream (neorealism, liberal institutionalism and strategic studies, sociological institutionalism), less mainstream (consistent constructivism and structural constructivism) and critical, inspired by neomarxism, Foucauldian approaches and the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu.

"The book analyzes the critical theories in international relations that have become increasingly popular in the post-Cold War era. The book will analyze critical theory, Frankfurt School, constructivism, post-colonialism, feminism, critical geopolitics, political economy, Copenhagen School, Aberystwyth School, Paris School and Ontological security"--

This book highlights how the foreign policy and intervention behavior of state actors are influenced by regional hegemonic interests and collective identity, drawing from empirical insights gathered from structural realism and social constructivism to explain why and how states intervene in conflicts.