The Art of World-Making
Nicholas Greenwood Onuf and his Critics
- 272 pages
- English
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The Art of World-Making
Nicholas Greenwood Onuf and his Critics
About this book
On its face, The Art of World-Making focuses on honouring the career of Nicholas Greenwood Onuf and his contributions to the study of international relations; of equal importance, however, while using Onuf's work as their touchstone, the contributions to this volume range widely across IR theory, making important interventions in some of the most important topics in the field today.
The volume considers the place of Constructivism and Republicanism in the field of international relations, and the contestation that accompanies the question of their place in the field, asking:
• What explains the dominance of some forms of Constructivism and the relative lack of influence of other forms?
• What can rule-oriented Constructivism, the focus here, provide our field that other forms of Constructivism have been unable to?
• Into what new and productive directions can Constructivism be taken?
• What are its gaps and what are the resources to remedy those gaps?
• What can Republicanism tell us about ongoing issues in international law, global governance, liberalism, and crisis?
Drawing together essays from some of the leading scholars in the field, space is given after each chapter for a detailed and highly personal response piece to each contribution, written by Onuf. This unique volume will be essential reading for students and scholars of international relations.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 World of Our Making and second-generation Constructivism
- 2 Onufian world-making: three, yes three, vignettes
- 3 How to gain adherents
- 4 “In the beginning was the deed”: Nicholas Onuf and the new Realisms
- 5 Onuf’s radical subtlety
- 6 Queering IR Constructivism
- 7 What do rules do? Making room for rationality in Constructivist thought
- 8 Contesting rule(s)
- 9 Acts and effects: conditions of agency in Onuf’s Constructivism
- 10 Still missing the other half: world making and sense making
- 11 Making sense of our world: competence, reason, and the emergence of ethical systems
- 12 What is the American national interest? reading Obama with Onuf
- 13 Social mechanisms: a methodological tool for feminist IR
- 14 Following Onuf’s rules on rule: the legal road to social Constructivism
- 15 Rules, power, and constitutions: following Onuf
- 16 Of maps, law, and politics: an inquiry into the changing meaning of territoriality
- 17 Modern crisis, modern history: Nicholas G Onuf’s conceptual history
- 18 Aristotle and the breakdown of order
- 19 Ending empire: Lusotropicalism as an imperial ideology
- Index