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Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The history of the conflict: from the Greeks to the Middle Ages -- Chapter 3: The history of the conflict: Descartes, the Enlightenment, and positivism -- Chapter 4: History rewritten: the 20th century constructivist interpretation of classic liberalism -- Chapter 5: The new enlightenment: Russell on organization and socialism -- Chapter 6: The new enlightenment: Chomsky on Cartesian linguistics and anarchist socialism -- Chapter 7: The new enlightenment: Skinner and the search for system -- Chapter 8: The new enlightenment: The abandoned road -- Chapter 9: Rationalist constructivism in protest song rhetoric -- Chapter 10: Retrieving history: liberalism and the study of spontaneous social orders -- Chapter 11: Retrieving history: the legacy of David Hume -- Chapter 12: Toward a rational theory of tradition: order, knowledge, tradition -- Chapter 13: Toward a rational theory of tradition: methodological and conceptual issues. .

"How can nations optimize their power in the modern world system? Realist theory has underscored the importance of hard power as the ultimate path to national strength. In this vision, nations require the muscle and strategies to compel compliance and achieve their full power potential. But in fact, changes in world politics have increasingly encouraged national leaders to complement traditional power resources with more enlightened strategies oriented around the use of soft power resources. The resources to compel compliance have to be increasingly integrated with the resources to cultivate compliance. Only through this integration of hard and soft power can nations truly achieve their greatest strength in modern world politics, and this realization carries important implications for competing paradigms of international relations. The idea of power optimization can only be delivered through the integration of the three leading paradigms of international relations: Realism, Neoliberalism, and Constructivism"--Provided by publisher

This book proposes a new institutional constructivist model, for social scientific and legal enquiries, based on the interrelations within the social and political world and the application of change in EU laws and politics. Much of the research conducted in social sciences and law examines the diverse activities of individuals and collectivities and the role of institutions in the social and political world. Although there exist many vantage points from which one can gain entry into understanding how agents in the world act, interact, shape and bear the world, socio-legal scientific epistemology has found monism and dualism to be convincing models. This book argues that current models do not capture the complexity of our micro-worlds, macro-worlds and meso-worlds. Nor can they account for the forms and patterns of socio-legal change. Mind, time and change are brought together in an attempt to contribute to socio-legal epistemology and to enhance its toolkit.

Though nominalism is a major presupposition in academia and western society, R. Scott Smith shows that nominalism undermines all knowledge whatsoever. In light of the many clear examples of knowledge that we do have, nominalism should be replaced by a realist view of properties.

Consecutive constructivism is a moral and political theory which mitigates structural injustice by securing individuals' perception of private morality - that is, inventing procedural devices to make people enhance their moral consciousness - and, at the same time, encourages people to voluntarily concern themselves with procedural justice and public morality. The crucial reason for this position is that a detouring method of not directly dealing with the problem of justice but rather discussing the problem of morals is required to avoid the lucid criticisms of statists that the sovereign ruling states with authority or the world government does not exist. This book suggests a new approach to the problem of global justice, termed here "consecutive constructivism". It provides a way of coping with procedural justice at the global level, while also alleviating the problem of structural injustice insofar as it exacerbates procedural injustice. Acknowledging the fact that the discussion of global justice is difficult in a world constituted of lots of sovereign states, it sketches out a political theory which begins with the problem of morals and then consecutively moves on to the matter of justice. The result is a novel normative theory narrowing the gap between Neo-Westphalian and Post-Westphalian traditions

"Dealing with themes of urban planning, constitutionalism, utopianism and social construction theory, this book analyzes the city of Magnesia, Plato's second-best city-state in the Laws, as if it were an actual ancient city-state. The book details the demographics, economics, military capabilities and polity of Magnesia using (post)modern critical theory and contemporary data on ancient city-states. Examining the key features of the proposed city-state in detail, Kenneth Royce Moore considers Plato's proposed military as well as his invention of national service, and compares this with known militaries of the era. The author demonstrates that economic growth is not its priority, highly restricted with an aim toward stability rather than expansion. Moore also considers the Magnesian political system in the light of existing polities of the era, concluding that Magnesia will have a strikingly different form of government than any other actual city-state in antiquity, albeit derived in no small part from Athenian, Cretan and Spartan traditions. This book puts "flesh on the bones" of Plato's fictional utopia and reveals how surprisingly practical it could have been."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Interactive interdisciplinarity and human lived reality -- Social constructivism and biologist essentialism? -- Chapter 1: From interpellated subjecthood to recognized vulnerability -- On the human being, or becoming -- Gendered to be human -- Performativity and human identity -- Relationality and the constitution of humanity -- The problematic body -- Actions -- Judith Butler and the person -- Desire and personhood -- Recognition, personhood and grievability -- Chapter 2: Being human nature -- Language: window to human nature -- Nature/nurture -- Unique environment -- Genes, personality and behavior -- Computationalism and the individual -- Webbed causality -- The individual and human nature -- Death of the self again? -- Openness and relationality in evolutionary psychology? -- Chapter 3: Persons becoming in relations -- Ontology of the person -- Relationality, space and freedom -- Personalist and relational theological anthropology -- The divine and the human -- The triune Creator and the anthropological significance of Christ -- Embodied human persons -- "spirit," sin and the question of ethics -- Chapter 4: Going beyond: relationality, evolutionary theory and time -- Establishing a weak ontology of relationality -- Re-reading the theory of evolution -- Evolution as performativity -- Time matters -- The reality of body -- Chapter 5: Kenotic personalism -- Primacy of "person"? -- Kenosis, vulnerability and persons: the significance of self-giving relations -- Relation, mediation, interpellation -- Called in time -- The Gift of Vulnerability -- The giving between persons -- Kenosis and feminism -- Kenosis and resistance -- The gift of freedom -- The most vulnerable? -- Conclusion: persons, individuals and institutions -- AI: artificial individualism? -- Disclosing the nature/nurture problem.

Chapter 1. Problems of complexity and explanation in the social sciences -- Chapter 2. The essential evolutionary tension: cosmos + taxis -- Chapter 3. Inference and expectation -- Chapter 4. Markets and morals -- Chapter 5. Alienation, malaise, and the abstract society -- Chapter 6. Education in a free society -- Chapter 7. Constructivism within the liberal tradition -- Chapter 8. Classical liberalism has yet to be either achieved, refuted, or improved.

"A thoughtful and well-wrought examination of the India-Pakistan nuclear relationship that offers hope that New Delhi and Islamabad may, in time, retreat from their nuclear stand-off. Through the robust application of the international relations theory, with an emphasis on constructivism, Carranza shows that the two states' nuclear confrontation is not an inescapable dilemma, but one that can become more tractable over time, in particular, because of the influence of global norms against nuclear armaments. Students of IR theory will find Carranza's in-depth application of this scholarly tool to a specific, high-profile case to be of particular value."--Bloomsbury Publishing