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Inhaltsverzeichnis: JDP – Constructivism – Transformational shift – Traditional – New foreign policy – Domestic – Convergent – Instrumentalism and expediency – Value – Clash of identities, – Secularists –Islamists 1. Erdoğan's New Turkey – Identity Matrix – Transformation – A New Islamist State – Emergence of Erdoğanism – Demise of Kemalism.

Explores the application of constructivist theory to international relations. The text examines the relevance of constructivism for empirical research, focusing on some of the key issues of contemporary international politics: ethnic and national identity; gender; and political economy

Explores the application of constructivist theory to international relations. The text examines the relevance of constructivism for empirical research, focusing on some of the key issues of contemporary international politics: ethnic and national identity; gender; and political economy

"This volume advocates a shift from the social constructivism found in the work of Thomas Luckmann and Peter Berger, to a communicative constructivism that acknowledges communication as an embodied form of action in its own right, according to which social actors, in engaging in communicative action, construct a material social reality that guides, delimits and enables actions. A study of the importance of understanding the role of communication in an age in which digitisation and mediatisation have extended the reach of communication to a global level and brought about the emergence of the communication society, The Communicative Construction of Reality shows how the communication society does not merely replace modern society and its hierarchical institutions, but complements it in a manner that continually results in conflicts. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in the sociology of knowledge, communication and social theory"--

Constitutional identity : the British liberal inputs -- Constitutional identity : the nationalist inputs -- Politico-ideological issues -- Politico-ideological structures -- Challenges to constitution identity : the doctrine of basic structure of the constitution -- Constitutional constructivism and justiciable designs of governance : rearticulating constitutional identity -- Conclusion.

The Social Evolution of International Politics critically engages with all the key grand theories of international politics and provides interesting solutions to some of the 'great debates' between those theories, from realism and neoliberalism, to the English School and constructivism.

This book brings a constructivist approach to analyzing public goods by recognizing that preferences are socially constructed from the actors' identities. This synthesis of constructivism and rational choice provides a deeper understanding of the decision to provide goods such as protecting human rights and collective security.

Drawing on Chinese cultural and philosophical traditions, this book offers a ground breaking reinterpretation of world politics from Yaqing Qin, one of China's leading scholars of international relations. Qin has pioneered the study of constructivism in China and developed a variant of this approach, arguing that culture defined in terms of background knowledge nurtures social theory and enables theoretical innovation. Building upon this argument, this book presents the concept of 'relationality', shifting the focus from individual actors to the relations amongst actors. This ontology of relations examines the unfolding processes whereby relations create the identities of actors and provide motivations for their actions. Appealing to scholars of international relations theory, social theory and Chinese political thought, this exciting new concept will be of particular interest to those who are seeking to bridge Eastern and Western approaches for a truly global international relations project

Introduction -- The intersection of constructivism and American exceptionalism -- Supporting the Afghan 'freedom fighters' against the 'perils' of communism, 1979-1989 -- The Bush administration's strategic construction of 9/11 and Afghanistan -- The Obama administration and the renewed significance of Afghanistan -- Obama and Afghanistan : the continuing danger of a 'safe haven'? -- Conclusion

Asia – Africa – International Relations Theories – Theory Development – Theory Application – Western IR – Non-Western IR – Japanese Security Policy – China Naval Buildup – China's Trade Policy – Gulf Cooperation Council – American Policy towards Israel – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – Iraq – Humanitarian Intervention – Sub-Saharan Africa – Peace Operations – Decolonization – Francophone Africa – Constructivism – Realism – Liberalism – Regionalism – FPA – Dependency Theory

A new comparative religion and the search for contemplative universals -- Recovering the mystical in the reign of constructivism -- Biological essentialism and the new sciences of religion -- Charting the common itinerary of the contemplative experience -- The concentrative itinerary of the Buddhist Jhonas -- The concentrative itinerary of Yogic Samodhi -- The concentrative itinerary of Catholic Unio Mystica

'Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics' is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers present original contributions to our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing approaches to normative ethics (including moral realism, constructivism, and expressivism) to questions of how we should act and live well.

Rather than treating concepts and their application in a static and iconic manner, 'Concepts in Action' provides us with examples of the active and creative use of concepts for constructing and generating new knowledge. Examples of theoretic constructions and topics discussed refers to the function of theory in main stream sociology; concepts enabling us to expand the range of interpretations; a critical view and approach to general concepts of culture, nature and consumption; concepts dealing with organization, institutions and actors; and examples of travelling concepts such as class, gender, race and social recognition. 'Concepts in Action' follows on the earlier 'Theory in Action' (2016) as part of a three volume project broadening our understanding of the interplay of theory and methods. The forthcoming third volume will focus on the strategy of constructing and analyzing the object in social science. This volume is highly relevant for researchers and students interested in theoretical construction in the social sciences.

This book examines Russian approaches to international law from three different yet closely interconnected perspectives: history, theory, and recent state practice. The study uses comparative international law as a starting point and argues that in order to understand post-Soviet Russia's state and scholarly approaches to international law, one should take into account the history of ideas in Russia. To some extent, Russian understandings of international law differ from what is considered the mainstream in the West. One specific feature of this work is that it goes inside the language of international law as it is spoken and discussed in post-Soviet Russia, especially the scholarly literature in the Russian language, and relates this literature to the history of international law as discipline in Russia. Recent state practice such as the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia's record in the UN SC, the European Court of Human Rights, investor-state arbitration, and the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union are laid out and discussed in the context of increasingly popular 'civilizational' ideas, i.e. the claim that Russia is a unique civilization and not part of Europe understood as the West. The implications of this claim for the future of international law, its universality and regionalism are discussed. This study concludes the author's five-year work on ERC-funded grant that enabled him to attend international law conferences in Russia and other CIS countries, as well as get access to relevant sources that often cannot be so easily accessed in the West.