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This text brings together thirteen of Nicholas Onuf's previously published yet rarely cited essays. They address topics that Onuf has puzzled over for decades, including the problem of materiality in social construction, epochal change in the modern world, and the power of language.

This book brings together thirteen of Nicholas Onuf's previously published yet rarely cited essays. They address topics that Onuf has puzzled over for decades, including the problem of materiality in social construction, epochal change in the modern world, and the power of language.

This book examines epochal change in the modern world within the confines of a "mightie frame". From epoch to epoch, the mighty frame has gained features that continue to function even as they recede from view, all the while fixing the limits of possible knowledge for modern minds and the conditions of rule in the modern world.

Part I. Constructivism . - 1. Constructivism: A User's Manual 3. - 2. Worlds of Our Making 21. - 3. Fitting Metaphors 40. - Part II. The Metaphysics of World-Making . - 4. Reading Aristotle 53. - 5. Parsing Personal Identity 75. - 6. Structure, What Structure? 96. - Part III. The Art of World-Making . - 7. Speaking of Policy 115. - 8. Rules in Practice 131. - 9. Friendship and Hospitality 141. - Part IV. Making Sense of Modernity. - 10. Institutions, Intentions and International Relations 163. - 11. Civil Society, Global Governance 182. - 12. Alternative Visions 195

"Nicholas Onuf is a leading scholar in international relations and introduced constructivism to international relations, coining the term constructivism in his book World of Our Making (1989). He was featured as one of twelve scholars featured in Iver B. Neumann and Ole Wæver, eds., The Future of International Relations: Masters in the Making? (1996); and featured in Martin Griffiths, Steven C. Roach and M. Scott Solomon, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations, 2nd ed. (2009). This powerful collection of essays clarifies Onuf's approach to international relations and makes a decisive contribution to the debates in IR concerning theory. It embeds the theoretical project in the wider horizon of how we understand ourselves and the world. Onuf updates earlier themes and his general constructivist approach, and develops some newer lines of research, such as the work on metaphors and the re-grounding in much more Aristotle than before. A complement to the author's groundbreaking book of 1989, World of Our Making, this tightly argued book draws extensively from philosophy and social theory to advance constructivism in International Relations. Making Sense, Making Worlds will be vital reading for students and scholars of international relations, international relations theory, social theory and law."--Publisher's website

Collecting together some of the author's most important articles and book reviews including previously unpublished material, this book demonstrates Nicholas Onuf's own contribution to the theoretical dimension of international law and international relations, and highlights the wider themes and developments present in international law over the last forty years.