Constructivism and comparative politics
In: International relations in a constructed world
In: International relations in a constructed world
Introduction: The Practice of Political Justification -- Scope and diversity -- Justificatory success and motivational adequacy -- Perfectionism, Pragmatism and Constructivism -- Constructivism in Rawls -- Ideal theory: structure and issues -- Persons, society and value in ideal theory -- The burdens of judgement, motivational adequacy and demandingness -- Self-Respect -- Self-respect: standards and success -- Self-respect and the Stepford Wives -- Rawlsian self-respect -- Reasoning about Justice -- Self-respect and practical reason -- Practical reason for justice-seekers -- Self-respect, civility and public reason -- Many flowers: demandingness revisited -- The Social Bases of Self-Respect -- Taxonomy -- Framework resources I: equal liberty -- Framework resources II: income and wealth
In: Cambridge studies in international relations 83
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Constructivism in International Relations -- Three constructivisms -- Wendt's constructivism -- Kratochwil's constructivism -- Onuf's constructivism -- German military involvement abroad -- Plan of the book -- 2 Identity change? Wendt's constructivism and German military involvement abroad -- The identity move -- Collective identity -- Collective identity reconsidered -- The identity of identity -- 3 Intersubjectivity and the normative: Kratochwil's constructivism and German military involvement abroad -- The significance of the normative -- Norms as the basis of intersubjectivity -- The politics of intersubjectivity and the normative -- 4 Words and world: Onuf's constructivism and German military involvement abroad -- Words making the world -- The normative effects of speech acts -- Speech acts: success and failure -- The politics of words and worlds -- 5 The politics of reality': Derrida's subversions, constructivism and German military involvement abroad -- The impossibility of pure presence and the politics of the real' -- The reality' of international politics -- Everyday reality' -- Reality' as raw material -- The politics of constructivism -- 6 The politics of constructivism -- Responsibility in international relations -- Constructivism, reality, International Relations -- Bibliography -- Documents
In: Cambridge studies in international relations 83
Maja Zehfuss' book offers a fundamental critique of constructivism, focusing on the work of Wendt, Onuf and Kratochwil. Using Germany's shift towards participation in international military operations as an illustration, she demonstrates why each version of constructivism fails in its own project and comes apart on the basis of its own assumptions. Inspired by Derridean thought, this book highlights the political consequences of constructivist representations of reality. Each critique concludes that constructivist notions of key concepts are impossible, and that this is not merely a question of theoretical inconsistency, but of politics. The book is premised on the notion that the 'empirical' and the 'theoretical' are less separate than is acknowledged in international relations, and must be read as intertwined. Zehfuss examines the scholars' role in international relations, worrying that, by looking to constructivism as the future, they will be severely curtailing their ability to act responsibly in this area
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