The Puzzles of Politics: Inquiries into the Genesis and Transformation of International Relations (New International Relations)

Friedrich Kratochwil is the author of the classic book: Rules, Norms and Decisions (1989), which introduced constructivism to international relations and has had a profound and significant impact on the discipline. The Puzzle of Politics brings together for the first time a collection of his key essays to explain his approach to international relations and how his thinking has developed over the last 30 years. It addresses topical themes and issues central to his work including sovereignty, law, epistemology, boundaries, global governance and world society. The book includes a framing introduction written for this volume in which Kratochwil provides an intellectual biography providing context as well as an introduction to his work. This important volume will be of very strong interest to students and scholars of international relation, political theory and law. Friedrich Kratochwil is presently Professor of International Relations at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and visiting scholar at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton he taught at the in the US at Maryland, Columbia and Penn, before returning to the LMU in Munich, Germany. He has been the editor of the European Journal of International Relations and member of the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, World Politics, Review of International Studies, and the Journal of International Relations and Development. Title......Page 8 Copyright......Page 9 Contents......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Preface......Page 14 1 A Wanderer between two worlds: An attempt at an intellectual biography......Page 16 Part I: Defining the approach......Page 28 2 The Humean perspective on international relations......Page 30 3 On the notion of “interest” in international relations......Page 53 4 Sovereignty, property and propriety: The generative grammar of modernity......Page 79 Part II: Writings on international law......Page 96 5 Thrasymmachos revisited: On the relevance of norms and the study of law for international relations......Page 98 6 The limits of contract......Page 114 7 Has the “rule of law” become a “rule of lawyers”?: An inquiry into the use and abuse of an ancient topos in contemporary debates......Page 141 Part III: Writings on epistemology......Page 166 8 Constructing a new orthodoxy?: Wendt’s “social theory of international politics” and the constructivist challenge......Page 168 9 History, action and identity: Revisiting the “second” great debate and assessing its importance for social theory......Page 196 10 Ten points to ponder about pragmatism: Some critical reflections on knowledge generation in the social sciences......Page 215 Part IV: Drawing boundaries: The inter/external and the private/public nexus......Page 232 11 Of systems, boundaries, and territoriality: An inquiry into the formation of the state system......Page 234 12 The politics of place and origin: An enquiry into the changing boundaries of representation, citizenship and legitimacy......Page 256 13 Global governance and the emergence of a “world society”......Page 277 Index......Page 296 This book brings together a collection of Friedrich Kratochwil's key essays to explain his approach to international relations and how his thinking has developed over the last 30 years. It addresses topical themes and issues, including sovereignty, law, epistemology, boundaries, global governance and world society. Friedrich Kratochwil. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.