... The paper conducts this interrogation in three steps. ... His account of 'developmental ... more ... The paper conducts this interrogation in three steps. ... His account of 'developmental subjects' would today have to be contextualised within the insights of the ... The prescriptions of multiparty democratic governance for the development of an effective and efficient state ...
The concept of solidarity has been used in IR theory with social theoretic connotations, which ha... more The concept of solidarity has been used in IR theory with social theoretic connotations, which have remained, by and large, murky and unclear. Below, I argue that the concept of solidarity must be understood together with its normative implications, that these implications matter per se, and that this has yet to be realised in contexts where the concept is used in IR.
The social-theoretic turn inaugurated under the rise of constructivism in International Relations... more The social-theoretic turn inaugurated under the rise of constructivism in International Relations has, among other themes, created a much-enlarged space for treating norms as efficacious explanatory variables in analyses of world politics. In this article, I reconstruct mainstream constructivist’s inclinations towards what I argue are sociological accounts of norms, in which the question of the latter’s justification is comprehensively sidelined. I initially show how constructivists’ strategy of delineating their approaches from Critical Theory and post-structural analyses sustain social theoretic commitments, which compound this problem. In the second part of the article, I focus on Richard Price’s programmatic attempt to reconcile the constructivist achievements in empirical research on the efficacy of norms with normative theorizing. The idea of building a bridge from ‘isses’ to ‘oughts’ labors, as I demonstrate, from the outset under construction problems, which cannot be resolved on the premises from which Price seeks to operate. Concluding this part, I consider the possibility of supplementing Price’s account with consequentialist normative theory, and demonstrate that this would incur further problems for a normative theoretic framework for the study of world politics. In the final part, I outline key themes of Critical Theory with the aim of addressing some persistent misunderstandings about its scope, social theoretic outlook, and normative commitments. Linking back to the critical appraisal of mainstream constructivism’s norm-sociological commitments, I suggest that despite some important limitations of its own, Critical Theory is in a better position to address ‘isses’ and ‘oughts’ than constructivists’ readings of it would suggest.
Based on a forum in International Studies Perspectives International Studies Perspectives and a f... more Based on a forum in International Studies Perspectives International Studies Perspectives and a forthcoming special issue in and a forthcoming special issue in Review of Review of International Studies International Studies, this online panel addresses two challenges. First, what happens if we conceive of , this online panel addresses two challenges. First, what happens if we conceive of International Relations (IR) from a relational perspective by assuming relations as prior to the existence International Relations (IR) from a relational perspective by assuming relations as prior to the existence of entities. Second, it seeks to pluralize the sources of relational thinking in IR by showing how different of entities. Second, it seeks to pluralize the sources of relational thinking in IR by showing how different cosmological traditions view relationality, suggesting the possibility of a cosmological traditions view relationality, suggesting the possibility of a pluriversal pluriversal IR. Each participant IR. Each participant will be asked to speak to the challenges above when answering the following question: how are they will be asked to speak to the challenges above when answering the following question: how are they doing IR differently? doing IR differently?
... The paper conducts this interrogation in three steps. ... His account of 'developmental ... more ... The paper conducts this interrogation in three steps. ... His account of 'developmental subjects' would today have to be contextualised within the insights of the ... The prescriptions of multiparty democratic governance for the development of an effective and efficient state ...
The concept of solidarity has been used in IR theory with social theoretic connotations, which ha... more The concept of solidarity has been used in IR theory with social theoretic connotations, which have remained, by and large, murky and unclear. Below, I argue that the concept of solidarity must be understood together with its normative implications, that these implications matter per se, and that this has yet to be realised in contexts where the concept is used in IR.
The social-theoretic turn inaugurated under the rise of constructivism in International Relations... more The social-theoretic turn inaugurated under the rise of constructivism in International Relations has, among other themes, created a much-enlarged space for treating norms as efficacious explanatory variables in analyses of world politics. In this article, I reconstruct mainstream constructivist’s inclinations towards what I argue are sociological accounts of norms, in which the question of the latter’s justification is comprehensively sidelined. I initially show how constructivists’ strategy of delineating their approaches from Critical Theory and post-structural analyses sustain social theoretic commitments, which compound this problem. In the second part of the article, I focus on Richard Price’s programmatic attempt to reconcile the constructivist achievements in empirical research on the efficacy of norms with normative theorizing. The idea of building a bridge from ‘isses’ to ‘oughts’ labors, as I demonstrate, from the outset under construction problems, which cannot be resolved on the premises from which Price seeks to operate. Concluding this part, I consider the possibility of supplementing Price’s account with consequentialist normative theory, and demonstrate that this would incur further problems for a normative theoretic framework for the study of world politics. In the final part, I outline key themes of Critical Theory with the aim of addressing some persistent misunderstandings about its scope, social theoretic outlook, and normative commitments. Linking back to the critical appraisal of mainstream constructivism’s norm-sociological commitments, I suggest that despite some important limitations of its own, Critical Theory is in a better position to address ‘isses’ and ‘oughts’ than constructivists’ readings of it would suggest.
Based on a forum in International Studies Perspectives International Studies Perspectives and a f... more Based on a forum in International Studies Perspectives International Studies Perspectives and a forthcoming special issue in and a forthcoming special issue in Review of Review of International Studies International Studies, this online panel addresses two challenges. First, what happens if we conceive of , this online panel addresses two challenges. First, what happens if we conceive of International Relations (IR) from a relational perspective by assuming relations as prior to the existence International Relations (IR) from a relational perspective by assuming relations as prior to the existence of entities. Second, it seeks to pluralize the sources of relational thinking in IR by showing how different of entities. Second, it seeks to pluralize the sources of relational thinking in IR by showing how different cosmological traditions view relationality, suggesting the possibility of a cosmological traditions view relationality, suggesting the possibility of a pluriversal pluriversal IR. Each participant IR. Each participant will be asked to speak to the challenges above when answering the following question: how are they will be asked to speak to the challenges above when answering the following question: how are they doing IR differently? doing IR differently?
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efficacious explanatory variables in analyses of world politics. In this article, I reconstruct mainstream constructivist’s inclinations towards what I argue are sociological accounts of norms, in which the question of the latter’s justification is comprehensively sidelined.
I initially show how constructivists’ strategy of delineating their approaches from Critical Theory and post-structural analyses sustain social theoretic commitments, which compound this problem. In the second part of the article, I focus on Richard
Price’s programmatic attempt to reconcile the constructivist achievements in empirical research on the efficacy of norms with normative theorizing. The idea of building a bridge from ‘isses’ to ‘oughts’ labors, as I demonstrate, from the outset under construction problems, which cannot be resolved on the premises from which Price seeks to operate. Concluding this part, I consider the possibility of supplementing Price’s account with
consequentialist normative theory, and demonstrate that this would incur further problems for a normative theoretic framework for the study of world politics.
In the final part, I outline key themes of Critical Theory with the aim of addressing some persistent misunderstandings about its scope, social theoretic outlook, and normative commitments. Linking back to the critical appraisal of mainstream constructivism’s norm-sociological commitments, I suggest that despite some important limitations of its own, Critical Theory is in a better position to address ‘isses’ and ‘oughts’ than constructivists’ readings of it would suggest.
efficacious explanatory variables in analyses of world politics. In this article, I reconstruct mainstream constructivist’s inclinations towards what I argue are sociological accounts of norms, in which the question of the latter’s justification is comprehensively sidelined.
I initially show how constructivists’ strategy of delineating their approaches from Critical Theory and post-structural analyses sustain social theoretic commitments, which compound this problem. In the second part of the article, I focus on Richard
Price’s programmatic attempt to reconcile the constructivist achievements in empirical research on the efficacy of norms with normative theorizing. The idea of building a bridge from ‘isses’ to ‘oughts’ labors, as I demonstrate, from the outset under construction problems, which cannot be resolved on the premises from which Price seeks to operate. Concluding this part, I consider the possibility of supplementing Price’s account with
consequentialist normative theory, and demonstrate that this would incur further problems for a normative theoretic framework for the study of world politics.
In the final part, I outline key themes of Critical Theory with the aim of addressing some persistent misunderstandings about its scope, social theoretic outlook, and normative commitments. Linking back to the critical appraisal of mainstream constructivism’s norm-sociological commitments, I suggest that despite some important limitations of its own, Critical Theory is in a better position to address ‘isses’ and ‘oughts’ than constructivists’ readings of it would suggest.