International Practices

by Edited by Emanuel Adler , Vincent Pouliot

• ISBN13: 9780521281171
• ISBN10: 0521281172
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781139152990
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

It is in and through practices - deeds that embody shared intersubjective knowledge - that social life is organized, that subjectivities are constituted and that history unfolds. One can think of dozens of different practices (from balancing, to banking or networking) which constitute the social fabric of world politics. This book brings together leading scholars in fields from international law and humanitarianism to nuclear deterrence and the UN to provide effective new tools to understand a range of pressing issues of the era of globalization. As an entry point to the study of world politics, the concept of practice accommodates a variety of perspectives in a coherent yet flexible fashion and opens the door to much needed interdisciplinary research in international relations. International Practices crystallizes the authors' past research on international practices into a common effort to turn the study of practice into a novel research program in international relations.

Table of Contents

Practices in International Relations and Social Theory

International practices: introduction and framework

Making sense of 'international practices'

Practices and Their Background

A practice theory of emotion in international relations

Background knowledge in the foreground: conversations about competent practice in 'sacred space'

Interactional international law and the practice of legality

The Evolution of Practices

The practice of deterrence

Britain's response to the Spanish Civil War: investigating the implications of foregrounding practice for English school thinking

Domestic practices and balancing: integrating practice into neoclassical realism

Practices in Practice

Banking on power: how some practices in an international organization anchor others Ole

The practice of political manipulation

Performing practices: a poststructuralist analysis of the Muhammad cartoon crisis

Privatisation in practice: power and capital in the field of global security

Conclusion

Practices of theory

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