Progress in Post-War International Relations

Politics & Social Sciences

Adler, Emanuel

Crawford, Beverly

Politics & Government

Columbia University Press

Communitarian International Relations: The Epistemic Foundations of International Relations (New International Relations)

Science & Math

Evolution

Routledge

In Emanuel Adler's distinctive constructivist approach to international relations theory, international practices evolve in tandem with collective knowledge of the material and social worlds. This book - comprising a fresh selection of his journal publications, a substantial new introduction, three previously unpublished articles - points IR constructivism in a novel direction, characterized as 'communitarian'. Adler's synthesis does not herald the end of the nation-state; nor does it suggest that agency is unimportant in international life. Rather, it argues that what mediates between individual and state agency and social structures are communities of practice, which are the wellspring and repositories of collective meanings and social practices. The concept of communities of practice casts new light on epistemic communities and security communities, helping to explain why certain ideas congeal into human practices and others do not, and which social mechanisms can facilitate the emergence of normatively better communities.

The Power of Ideology: The Quest for Technological Autonomy in Argentina and Brazil (Volume 16) (Studies in International Political Economy)

History

Americas

University of California Press

World Ordering: A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)

Cambridge University Press

World Ordering: A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 150)

Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach, this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative theory of change and stability of international social orders. It argues that practices and their background knowledge survive preferentially, communities of practice serve as their vehicle, and social orders evolve. As an evolutionary theory of world ordering, which does not borrow from the natural sciences, it explains why certain configurations of practices organize and govern social orders epistemically and normatively, and why and how these configurations evolve from one social order to another. Suggesting a multiple and overlapping international social orders' approach, the book uses three running cases of contested orders - Europe's contemporary social order, the cyberspace order, and the corporate order - to illustrate the theory. Based on the concepts of common humanity and epistemological security, the author also submits a normative theory of better practices and of bounded progress.

Anthropology

Communitarian International Relations: The Epistemic Foundations of International Relations

International Practices

Pouliot, Vincent

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