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: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: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 ...
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: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: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:Re-thinking the 'inter' in international politics
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract: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:Of communities, gangs, historicity and the problem of Santa Claus
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In responding to the critics of my Tartu lecture, I firstly examine a little further the 'community' aspect of science as a practice, because I do not quite share Lebows's optimism that 'ethics' applied to the scientific ...
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:On Legitimacy
Author(s):KRATOCHWIL, FriedrichDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article provides a conceptual analysis of different uses of the term ‘legitimacy’. Rather than attempting to provide a simple ‘definition’ I argue that the meaning of the concept cannot be understood in terms of a ...