▪ Abstract Constructivism is an approach to social analysis that deals with the role of human
consciousness in social life. It asserts that human interaction is shaped primarily by …

Abstract The discipline of International Relations (IR) does not reflect the voices,
experiences, knowledge claims, and contributions of the vast majority of the societies and …

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 …

The relationship between constructivism and postmodernism is complex and ambivalent.
The two books reviewed in this essay present contrasting visions on the matter. While the …

The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations first edition was winner of the ISA-
Northeast's Yale H. Ferguson Award, and the ISA Theory Section's Best Book of the Year …

Offering unrivalled coverage of classical theories, contemporary approaches, and current
issues, together with an exceptionally clear writing style, Introduction to International …

This important text offers a full and detailed account of how to use discourse analysis to
study foreign policy. It provides a poststructuralist theory of the relationship between identity …

This article introduces a mode of social action and interaction that has so far been largely
overlooked in the US-dominated international relations debate between rational choice and …

Security matters. It is impossible to make sense of world politics without reference to it. Every
day, people somewhere in the world are killed, starved, tortured, raped, impoverished …

For a long time, both of us have been baffled and frustrated by emotionally charged
paradigmatic debates about the nature of international relations and the growing gap …