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Reason, Culture, Religion book provides a systematic overview of the study of world politics. The author then locates modernist world politics in its sacral context by discussing Taoist strategics, Buddhist economics, Islamic civics, Confucian Marxism, Hindu constructivism, Pagan feminism and Animist environmentalism. It concludes by asking what a world affairs worthy of the name would be

Provides a counterbalance to the standard assessment-measurement-accountability prescriptions that have made showing you did your job more important than actually doing it. This work articulates a postmodern theory of public administration that challenges the field to redirect its attention away from narrow, technique-oriented scientism

1. Setting the scene : international relations as political theory -- 2. Cosmopolitanism and critical cosmopolitanism -- 3. Developmental communitarianism : liberal ambitions, secular approaches -- 4. Critical constructivism : Onora O'Neill on moral and institutional cosmopolitanism -- 5. Secular Hegelianism : Mervyn Frost and the limits of developmental communitarianism -- 6. Michael Walzer : moral creativity and the minimalist universalism of reiteration -- 7. John Rawls, developmental communitarianism and international ethics.

1. Doing the right thing just because it is right -- 2. Respect and moral motivation -- 3. Acting from respect for the moral law -- 4. An alternative account of acting from duty -- 5. Filling out the details : Ross's theory of prima facie duties -- 6. On the value of acting from duty -- 7. Constructivism, autonomy and side-constraints -- 8. Conclusion : absolutely universal principles and context sensitivity.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Global Population Policy: Past and Present -- 2 Population Control as Global Policy -- 3 The Winds of Change: A New Approach to Global Population Policy -- 4 The Global Women's Health and Rights Movement -- 5 Reproductive Rights as an International Norm -- 6 After Cairo: Consolidation or Backlash? -- 7 Norms, UN Global Conferences, and Constructivism -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index

This clear and persuasive book examines recent developments in ethics and applies these to the practice and organisation of the caring professions. Its original approach focuses on what kind of ethical theory might be helpful for professional ethics, and explores debates from the perspectives of liberalism, feminism, ecology, postmodernism and constructivism. With ideas accessibly explained and implications explored using illustrative examples from practice contexts, it is essential reading for students and professionals.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction Trading Traditions: Straw Arguments in North----South Trade -- 1 Theorizing the Uruguay Round: The Case for Constructivism -- 2 Re-thinking Trade Rules -- 3 us Trade Policy: Mixed Messages -- 4 Trading Roles -- 5 Pro-trade Policies: Creating Collective Identity -- 6 Re-thinking Power in the Trading Regime -- 7 India Adopts a New Trading Identity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

The Social Construction of Europe systematically introduces and applies a social constructivist perspective to the study of European integration. A strong international list of contributors provide new and important insights to a key area of contemporary study and research.

International relations : still an American social science? -- International relations theory in France : three generations of Parisian intellectual pride -- International relations theory in Italy : between domestic academia and intellectual adjustment -- International relations theory in the Nordic countries : from fragmentation to multi-level research cooperation -- Third way or via media? The international society approach of the English school -- Middle ground or halfway house? Social constructivism and the theory of European integration -- The meaning of new medievalism : an exercise in theoretical reconstruction

International relations : still an American social science? -- International relations theory in France : three generations of Parisian intellectual pride -- International relations theory in Italy : between domestic academia and intellectual adjustment -- International relations theory in the Nordic countries : from fragmentation to multi-level research cooperation -- Third way or via media? The international society approach of the English school -- Middle ground or halfway house? Social constructivism and the theory of European integration -- The meaning of new medievalism : an exercise in theoretical reconstruction

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction -- Part I. Frameworks -- 1. Foreign Policy, International Politics, and Constructivism -- 2. Foreign Policy Is What States Make of It: Social Construction and International Relations Theory -- 3. A Constructivist Primer -- 4. Speaking of Policy -- Part II. Constructivists at Work -- 5. Soviet "New Thinking" and the End of the Cold War: Five Explanations -- 6. Thus Spoke Franco: The Place of History in the Making of Foreign Policy

1: Rosenbaum, Arthur Lewis: Improving Sino American relations. The limits of change. 2: Garrett, Banning: The post-September 11th strategic situation and its implications for the United States, China and Sino-American relations. 3: Harding, Harry: American China policy under the Bush administration. Change and continuity. 4: Lynch, David C.: The turbulent U.S.-China relationship. Insights from chaos theory and constructivism. 5: Romberg, Alan D.: Taiwan in U.S.-PRC relations. A strategic perspective. 6: Wang Jisi: China's reaction to G. W. Bush. Tactical moves, or a strategic reorientation?

This book is about the making and unmaking of socio-cultural differences, seen from anthropological, sociological and philosophical perspectives. Some contributions are of a theoretical nature, such as when the »problem of translation«, »the enigma of alienity« or »queer theory« are addressed; other contributors throw light on contemporary issues like the integration of Muslims in Norway, identity-forming processes in »Creole« societies or »neo-traditionalist movements« and »identity« in Africa. Moreover, the book deals with »strangers« looked at from an »anthropology of the night«. Special emphasis is placed on how globalization and the rapid spread of ever new technologies of information have generated ever new patterns of inclusion and exclusion, and how these can be theorized.

Sculpting the academic identity : disciplinary reflections at the dawn of a new millennium / Yosef Lapid -- One field, many perspectives : shifting from debate to dialogue / Margaret G. Hermann -- Visions of global politics as an intellectual enterprise : three questions without answers / Harvey Starr -- Bridge-building in the study of international relations : how "Kuhn" we do better? / Charles W. Kegley, Jr. -- The moral pulse of international relations / Gregory A. Raymond -- Deterritorializing global politics / Richard W. Mansbach -- Worlds of our making : the strange career of constructivism in international relations / Nicholas Onuf -- Harold Lasswell's legacy and twenty-first century international relations / Donald J. Puchala