Title:The Puzzles of Politics: Inquiries into the genesis and transformation of international relations
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The Puzzles of Politics brings together for the first time a collection of his key essays to explain his approach to international relations and how his thinking has developed over the last 30 years. It addresses topical ...
Title:How (Il)liberal is the Liberal Theory of Law? Some Critical Remarks on Slaughter’s Approach
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explores the limits of Anne-Marie Slaughter's liberal theory of (international) law. Despite her admirable interdisciplinary work, Slaughter falls prey to proposing largely technical solutions based on best ...
Title:How (Il)liberal is the liberal theory of law? Some critical remarks on slaughter's approach
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explores the limits of Anne-Marie Slaughter's liberal theory of (international) law. Despite her admirable interdisciplinary work, Slaughter falls prey to proposing largely technical solutions based on best ...
Title:On Acting and Knowing: How Pragmatism Can Advance International Relations Research and Methodology
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article moves from deconstruction to reconstruction in research methodology. It proposes pragmatism as a way to escape from epistemological deadlock. We first show that social scientists are mistaken in their hope to ...
Title:On Acting and Knowing
Author(s):FRIEDRICHS, Jörg; KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This article moves from deconstruction to reconstruction in epistemology and research methodology. To begin with, we show why many social scientists are mistaken in their hope to obtain warranted knowledge in practical ...
Title:Of false promises and good bets: a plea for a pragmatic approach to theory building (the Tartu lecture)
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this lecture I review some of the issues that meta-theorizing was supposed to address in international relations and show how this project of securing knowledge through hierarchization and finding absolute foundations ...
Title:Of false promises and good bets: a plea for a pragmatic approach to theory building
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this lecture I review some of the issues that meta-theorizing was supposed to address in international relations and show how this project of securing knowledge through hierarchization and finding absolute foundations ...
Title:Looking back from somewhere: reflections on what remains 'critical' in critical theory
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article revisits some of the theoretical debates within the field of IR since Ashley and Cox challenged the mainstream. But in so doing it attempts also to show that the proposed alternatives have their own blind spots ...
Title:Special issue: critical international relations theory after 25 years
Author(s):RENGGER, Nicholas; THIRKELL-WHITE, Ben; KRATOCHWIL, Friedrich; PALAN, Ronen; HUTCHINGS, Kimberly; HOBSON, John M.; MURPHY, Craig N.; LINKLATER, Andrew; DEVETAK, RichardDate:2007Type of Publication:Article
Title:Re-thinking the “inter” in International Politics
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2007Abstract:This article examines the politics that emerge from three different conceptions of the "inter": exchange, interest and identity.
It argues that the classical focus on "distributive justice" in political analysis is too ...
Title:Looking Back from Somewhere: Reflections of what remains ”critical” in Critical
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article revisits some of the theoretical debates within the field of IR since Ashley and Cox challenged the mainstream. But in so doing it attempts also to show that the proposed alternatives have their own blind spots ...
