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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784684503321

Autore

Adler Emanuel

Titolo

Communitarian international relations : the epistemic foundations of international relations / / Emanuel Adler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-30782-9

1-134-30783-7

1-280-24266-3

0-203-02244-0

9786610242665

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Collana

The new international relations

Classificazione

89.70

Disciplina

327.1/01

Soggetti

International relations

Communitarianism

Constructivism (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Series editor's preface; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Communities of practice in International Relations; 2 From being to becoming; 3 Cognitive evolution; 4 Seizing the middle ground; 5 Ideological 'guerrillas' and the quest for technological autonomy; 6 The emergence of cooperation; 7 Imagined (security)communities; 8 Condition(s) of peace; 9 A Mediterranean canon and an Israeli prelude to long-term peace; 10 Changing identities; Notes; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In Emanuel Adler's distinctive constructivist approach to international relations theory, international practices evolve in tandem with collective knowledge of the material and social worlds. This book  - comprising a fresh selection of his journal publications, a substantial new introduction, three previously unpublished articles - points IR constructivism in a novel direction, characterized as 'communitarian'. Adler's synthesis does not herald the end of the nation-state; nor does it suggest that agency is unimportant in international life. Rather, it argues that what mediates betwee