Revisiting Metaphors in International Relations Theory

Abstract

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Significance of Metaphors in International Relations Theory -- Beginning Again with an Anecdote -- Foreign Policy by Metaphor: Barack Obama's "Red Line" -- Metaphors and Public Policy -- Why Metaphors Matter -- Conceptual Versus Linguistic Metaphors -- Governments and Metaphors -- The Nexus Between Policy Metaphors and Scholarship -- References -- Chapter 2: Metaphors of International Political Economy -- Metaphors in Economics1 -- Metaphors in the Study of Relations Among International Actors of Unequal Wealth -- Ordinal Worlds Metaphor -- Metaphors of "Development" -- The Metaphors of "Core," "Center," and "(Semi)Periphery" -- Metaphors of "North" and "South" -- Metaphor of "Dependency" -- "Global Inequality" -- Additional Thoughts About Relations Among International Actors of Unequal Wealth -- Foreign "Aid" -- "Globalization" in Metaphorical Perspective -- Some Metaphors of European Integration -- Functionalism, Neofunctionalism, and "Spillover" -- European Neighborhood Policy -- Reflections on the Subplot of IPE -- References -- Chapter 3: Metaphors of Democratization -- Metaphors in the Study of Democratization -- Democratic "Transition" and "Consolidation" -- Democratization Has a "Direction" -- "Waves" of Democratization -- Democratization and Swings of the "Pendulum" -- Directions of Democracy and "Modernization" -- "Advanced Democracies" -- Summary -- Reform/Democracy "From Above" Versus Reform/Democracy "From Below" -- Government Has "Density": "Thick" and "Thin" Political Authority -- Metaphor of the Democratic Deficit -- Narratives in the Metaphors of Democratization -- References -- Chapter 4: Theoretical Reflections -- Theoretical Aspects of Metaphors in Realism -- Metaphors and the Epistemology of Neorealism -- Metaphorical Aspects of Liberal Theory