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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Onuf, Nicholas Greenwood, author.

Series:

New international relations.

New International Relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--Philosophy.

International relations.

International relations--Social aspects.

Constructivism (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 international

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 11, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-21946-3

0-203-09671-1

1-136-21947-1

9780203096710

OCLC:

845254118