Date: 2013
Type: Book
Power, realism, and constructivism
Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2013
GUZZINI, Stefano, Power, realism, and constructivism, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2013
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/27005
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
Framed by a new and substantial introductory chapter, the book collects Stefano Guzzini's reference articles and some less well known publications on power, realism and constructivism. By analysing theories and their assumptions, but also theorists following their intellectual paths, his analysis explores the diversity of different schools and moves beyond simple definitions to explore their intrinsic tensions and fallacies. Guzzini's approach to the analysis of power - both within and outside International Relations - provides the common theme of the book through which the theoretical state of the art in IR is re-assessed.
Table of Contents:
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: power and the study of politics
Part I Power
1 Structural power: the limits of neorealist power analysis
2 The use and misuse of power analysis in international theory
3 From (alleged) unipolarity to the decline of multilateralism? A power-theoretical critique
4 Niklas Luhmann's conceptualization of power
5 Pierre Bourdieu's field analysis of relational capital, misrecognition and domination
Part II Realism
6 The enduring dilemmas of realism in International Relations
7 The different worlds of realism in International Relations
8 Foreign policy without diplomacy: the Bush administration at a crossroads
9 Robert Gilpin: a realist quest for the dynamics of power
10 Susan Strange's oscillating realism: opposing the ideal - and the apparent
Part III Constructivism
11 A reconstruction of constructivism in International Relations
12 The concept of power: a constructivist analysis
13 `The Cold War is what we make of it': when peace research meets constructivism in International Relations
14 Alexander Wendt's constructivism: a relentless quest for synthesis (with Anna Leander)
15 Imposing coherence: the central role of practice in Friedrich Kratochwil's theorising of politics, international relations and science
Epilogue: the significance and roles of teaching theory in International Relations
Bibliography
Index
Additional information:
Chapter 1 "Structural power: the limits of neorealist power analysis" was previously published as an article in International Organization, 1993, 47, 3, 443-478
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/27005
ISBN: 9780415640466
Publisher: Routledge
Earlier different version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5139
Version: Partially based on the author’s EUI PhD thesis, 1994
