Nicholas Onuf

Making Sense, Making Worlds

Constructivism in Social Theory and International Relations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This powerful collection of essays clarifies Onufà â â s approach to international relations and makes a decisive contribution to the debates in IR concerning theory. Onuf updates earlier themes and develops some newer lines of research, embedding the theoretical project in the wider horizon of how we understand ourselves and the world.

Produktdetails

• New International Relations
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780415624176
• ISBN-10: 0415624177
• Artikelnr.: 35454429

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Greenwood Onuf is Professor Emeritus, Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University, Miami, and Professor Associado, Instituto de Relações Internationais, Pontifica Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part I. Constructivism 1. Constructivism: A User's Manual 2. Worlds
of Our Making 3. Fitting Metaphors Part II. The Metaphysics of World-Making
4. Reading Aristotle 5. Parsing Personal Identity 6. Structure, What
Structure? Part III. The Art of World-Making 7. Speaking of Policy 8. Rules
in Practice 9. Friendship and Hospitality Part IV. Making Sense of
Modernity 10. Institutions, Intentions and International Relations 11.
Civil Society, Global Governance 12. Alternative Visions