Why a Book on Contestation? This book's theory of contestation is motivated by two recent
developments in the field of international relations theories. First, most constructivist and …

Since the first edition of International Practice Theory was written, the practice theoretical
debate in international relations has matured significantly. It seemed reasonable to drop the …

This special forum focuses on international communities of practice (CoP) as a concept and
an object of inquiry in International Relations (IR). The Introduction discusses the concept's …

Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach,
this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative …

When I began to write A Theory of Contestation in 2013, I wanted to test the waters for more
programmatic contestation research in international relations theory. This book is a shorter …

Luc Boltanski is one of the most important contemporary social theorists. Whether and how
his sociology matters for International Relations (IR) theory has, so far, not been explored …

This working paper makes the case for devoting greater attention to problems of norm
complexity in international politics, particularly to the social construction of norm …

In 2006, Norway launched a stand-alone process to negotiate a ban on cluster munitions.
The United Kingdom (UK) reluctantly joined the process to keep it within acceptable bounds …

The supposedly fixed set of norms within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN), commonly referred to as the “ASEAN way,” is both celebrated and maligned as a …

How should we study the language of political legitimation? Incipient scholarship
increasingly seeks to bridge the conceptual schism between the sociological is and the …