The debate between realists and liberals has reemerged as an axis of contention in
international relations theory. Revolving in the past around competing theories of human …

This series contains reports on original research in both pragmatics and discourse analysis.
Contributions from linguists, philosophers, logicians, cognitive psychologists, and …

Why do agents comply with the norms embedded in regimes and international institutions?
Scholars have proposed two competing answers to this compliance puzzle, one rationalist …

Socialization theory is a neglected source of explanations for cooperation in international
relations. Neorealism treats socialization (or selection, more properly) as a process by which …

" Constructive engagement" became a catchphrase under the Clinton administration for
America's reinvigorated efforts to pull China firmly into the international community as a …

This article examines the dynamics and implications of practices of socialization enacted by
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in post–Cold War Central and Eastern …

The level of political participation and civic engagement in a society can be seen as a
measure of the health of the democratic body politic. Its future and continuing well-being falls …

How and why do institutions change? Institutions, understood as rules of behaviour
constraining and facilitating social interaction, are subject to different forms and processes of …

This article develops a normative model of public deliberation and proposes ways to apply it
in the comparative empirical analysis of political media content. In the first part of the article …

The debate between rationalists and social constructivists has now reached studies of
European integration (Aspinwall and Schneider, 2000, 2001; Christiansen et al., 1999a; …