Constructivism in International Relations The Politics of Reality

Name: Constructivism in International Relations The Politics of Reality
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ISBN: 9780521815444

ISBN-10: 0521815444

ISBN-13: 9780521815444

Edition: 2002

Authors: Maja Zehfuss, Thomas Biersteker, Chris Brown, Phil Cerny

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Maja Zehfuss book offers a fundamental critique of constructivism, focusing on the work of Wendt, Onuf and Kratochwil. Using Germanys shift towards participation in international military operations as an illustration, she demonstrates why each version of constructivism fails in its own project and comes apart on the basis of its own assumptions. Inspired by Derridean thought, this book highlights the political consequences of constructivist representations of reality. Each critique concludes that constructivist notions of key concepts are impossible, and that this is not merely a question of theoretical inconsistency, but of politics. The book is premised on the notion that the empirical…

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List price: $119.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/25/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations



Introduction



Identity change? Wendt's constructivism and German military involvement abroad



Intersubjectivity and the normative: Kratochwil's constructivism and German military involvement abroad



Words and world: Onuf's constructivism and German military involvement abroad



The politics of 'reality': Derrida's subversions, constructivism and German military involvement abroad



The politics of constructivism


Bibliography


Index