Constructivism in International Relation: the politics of reality

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Maja Zehfuss
Cambridge University Press, 2002 - 289pages

Maja Zehfuss critiques constructivist theories of international relations (currently considered to be at the cutting edge of the discipline) and finds them wanting and even politically dangerous. Zehfuss uses Germany's first shift toward using its military abroad after the end of the Cold War to illustrate why constructivism does not work and how it leads to particular analytical outcomes and forecloses others. She argues that scholars are limiting their abilities to act responsibly in international relations by looking towards constructivism as the future.

Constructivism and International Relation: Alexander Wendt and His Critics

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Stefano Guzzini, Anna Leander
Routledge, 2006 - 246pages

This volume addresses both Alexander Wendt's social theory and international relations theory, exploring a variety of constructivist debates without reducing constructivism to one single position.

Belief and Leadership in World Politics: Methods and Applications of Operational Code Analysis

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Mark Schafer, Stephen G. Walker
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 - 288pages

This book examines how beliefs shape leaders' perceptions of reality and lead to cognitive and motivated biases that distort, block, and recast incoming information from the environment. Using content analysis and formal modeling methods associated with quantitative operational code analysis, contributors analyze how beliefs affect policies related to international security and international political economy.

Beyond Positivism: Critical Reflection on International Relation

Beyond Positivism:
Critical Reflection on International Relation

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Claire Turenne Sjolander, Wayne S. Cox
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994 - 203 pages

Classical and Modern Thought on International Relation: From Anarchy to Cosmopolis

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Robert H. Jackson
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 - 209pages

In the tradition of the English School of International Relations theory, this book seeks to show how continuities in international politics outweigh the changes. The author demonstrates how the world is neither one of anarchy, as put forward by realists, nor is it a fully cosmopolitan order, as argued by those on the other side of the theoretical spectrum. Instead, it is a world of states who acknowledge a set of moral constraints that exists between them.

Beyond the Ivory Tower: International Relations Theory and the Issue of Policy Relevance

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Joseph Lepgold, Miroslav Nincic
Columbia University Press, 2001 - 228pages

The gap between academics and practitioners in international relations has widened in recent years, according to the authors of this book. Many international relations scholars no longer try to reach beyond the ivory tower and many policymakers disdain international relations scholarship as arcane and irrelevant. Joseph Lepgold and Miroslav Nincic demonstrate how good international relations theory can inform policy choices. Globalization, ethnic conflict, and ecological threats have created a new set of issues that challenge policymakers, and cutting-edge scholarship can contribute a great deal to the diagnosis and handling of potentially explosive situations.

Communitarian International Relation: the Epistemic Foundations of International Relations

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Emanuel Adler
Routledge, 2005 - 334pages

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 selection of his journal publications, a new introduction and 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 bettercommunities.