Special issue: Pragmatism in international relations theory

In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 453-690

Abstract

Explores potential of pragmatism as an alley of inquiry in IR studies; 10 articles. Contents: The pragmatism of global and European governance: emerging forms of the political "beyond Westphalia", by Mathias Albert and Tanja Kopp-Malek; Pragmatic solidarism and the dilemmas of humanitarian intervention, by Alex J. Bellamy; How to make a social science practical: pragmatism, critical social science and multiperspectival theory, by James Bohman; Deweyan pragmatism and post-positivist school science in IR, by Molly Cochran; Pragmatism's boundaries, by Matthew Festenstein; Pragmatic constructionism and the study of international institutions, by Peter M. Haas and Ernst B. Haas; On the historical imagination of international relations: the case for a "Deweyan reconstruction", by Jonathan B. Isacoff; Returning practice to the linguistic turn: the case of diplomacy, by Iver B. Neumann; Re-orienting international relations: on pragmatism, pluralism and practical reasoning, by David Owen; Globalising democracy without a state: weak public, strong public, global constitutionalism, by Hauke Brunkhorst.