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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786716403321

Autore

Onuf Nicholas Greenwood

Titolo

Making sense, making worlds : constructivism in social theory and international relations / / Nicholas Greenwood Onuf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-21946-3

0-203-09671-1

1-136-21947-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

New International Relations

Disciplina

327.101

Soggetti

International relations - Philosophy

International relations - Social aspects

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

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; PART I Constructivism; 1 Constructivism: a user's manual (1998); 2 Worlds of our making (2002); 3 Fitting metaphors (2010); PART II The metaphysics of world-making; 4 Reading Aristotle (2006/2009); 5 Parsing personal identity (2003); 6 Structure? What structure? (2009); PART III The art of world-making; 7 Speaking of policy (2001); 8 Rules in practice (2010); 9 Friendship and hospitality (2009); PART IV Making sense of modernity; 10 Institutions, intentions and international relations (2002)

11 Civil society, global governance (2005)12 Alternative visions (2012); Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Nicholas Onuf is a leading scholar in international relations and introduced constructivism to international relations, coining the term constructivism in his book World of Our Making (1989). He was featured as one of twelve scholars featured in Iver B. Neumann and Ole Wæver, eds., The Future of International Relations: Masters in the Making? (1996); and featured in Martin Griffiths, Steven C. Roach and M. Scott Solomon, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations, 2nd ed. (2009).This powerful collection of essays clarifies Onuf's approach to



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