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International theory at the margins : neglected essays, recurring themes / Nicholas Greenwood Onuf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Onuf, Nicholas Greenwood, author.
- Series:
- Bristol Studies in International Theory
- Bristol studies in international theory
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations--Philosophy.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 271 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This book brings together thirteen of Nicholas Onuf's previously published yet rarely cited essays. They address topics that Onuf has puzzled over for decades, including the problem of materiality in social construction, epochal change in the modern world, and the power of language.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Series page
- International Theory at the Margins: Neglected Essays, Recurring Themes
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Neglected essays
- Recurrent themes
- Tall tales
- Part I Politics: Deciding What Matters
- 1 Comparative International Politics (1982)
- The international system
- Types of international systems
- 2 Prometheus Prostrate (1984)
- Questions of growth
- Long waves-a generalized, multi-factor account
- Technology-the guiding hand?
- Control technology or power technology?
- The changing debate
- 3 Centre-Periphery Relations (2017)
- Domination, rule
- Hegemonial imperialism
- 4 On Power (2017)
- Causation
- Four causes
- Weight
- Powers
- Soft power
- Attraction
- Agency
- Expertise
- Part II Ethics: Doing What We Should
- 5 Rules for Torture? (2009)
- Pandora's box
- The structure of torture
- Slippery slopes, inverted worlds
- 6 The Ambiguous Modernism of Seyla Benhabib (2009)
- Modernity
- Self and other
- Modernism
- 7 Relative Strangers (2013)
- The laws of hospitality
- Objects in motion
- On diplomacy
- Codes of conduct
- 8 Ethical Systems (2016)
- Many worlds, four worlds
- Many theories, four theoretical frameworks
- Many rules, four ethical systems
- Virtue ethics, four cardinal virtues
- Virtue ethics today, four pathologies
- Part III Semantics: Saying What We See
- 9 Writing Large (2000)
- Habit
- Habdaption
- Change
- Skill
- Normativity
- 10 Intertextual Relations (2009)
- Postmodern/poststructural
- Method/anti-method
- Theory/metatheory
- Movement/moment
- 11 World-making, State-building (2014)
- Blueprints
- Metaphors
- Bodies and persons
- Sovereignty
- Containers
- Clubs
- Buildings
- Networks
- After modernity
- 12 What We Do (2018)
- History.
- Philosophy, first cut: human faculties
- Philosophy, second cut: working models
- Sociology
- Conclusion
- 13 The Dinosaur Speaks! (2018)
- Afterword
- References
- Index of Names
- Index of Concepts.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jan 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9781529229851
- 1529229855
- 9781529229837
- 1529229839
- 9781529229844
- 1529229847
- OCLC:
- 1366497601
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