Language, Agency, and Politics in a Constructed WorldLanguage matters in international relations. Constructivists have contributed the insight that global politics is shaped by the way agents narrate history and produce discourses about themselves and about the world. This insight has induced a profound reexamination of assumptions in the study of international relations. The contributors to this volume examine (Part I) the critical linguistic/discursive techniques of postmodernists and constructivists, and apply them (Part II) to international relations. |
Contents
Language Nonfoundationalism International Relations | 3 |
Self Other Agent | 26 |
Constructivist International Relations Theory and | 50 |
Language and Method in International | 66 |
Three Ways of Spilling Blood | 87 |
Discursivity and Concursivity | 101 |
Speech Acts Normativity and | 121 |
Solving the Puzzle | 143 |
The United Nations | 171 |
The Westpolitik Debate | 196 |
The International | 220 |
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About the Editor and the Contributors | 273 |
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