Title Practice theory and international relations / Silviya Lechner, Mervyn Frost

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Cambridge studies in international relations ; 148 Cambridge studies in international relations ; 148. Contents Introduction : Mapping out the Problem of Practices -- Part I.A Philosophical Analysis of Social Practices. Practice Theory : A Preliminary View -- Bourdieu and the Practice Turn in International Relations -- Practice Theory : A Basic Philosophical Template -- Part II. Practices in International Relations. Two Core Practices in International Relations : A Neo-Hegelian Perspective -- The Dialectic of Global Practices -- Practice Theory, Macro Practices and the Study of International Relations Summary "This book aims to provide a general analysis of social practices in order to advance our understanding of contemporary practices in international relations. Recently, the discipline of International Relations (IR) has experienced a 'turn' to practice, associated with Emanuel Adler and Vincent Pouliot and inspired by social theorists such as Theodore Schatzki and especially French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. A central premise underlying such sociological investigations is that practices represent doing or actions, including patterned actions carried out by a multitude of agents. In what follows, we do not elaborate on this sociological approach to practices but, develop an independent account, a philosophical one, that is fundamentally critical of it. While our account owes much to H.L.A. Hart and John Rawls, it is above all indebted to G.W.F. Hegel, the Hegelian philosopher Michael Oakeshott, and the late Ludwig Wittgenstein. Each of these three thinkers considered individually has been discussed within IR, but in this study we have reworked and integrated their ideas into a coherent conceptual position for making sense of practices which we call practice theory. The theory is expounded in Part One and Part Two extends it to the sphere of international practices, hence the book's title, Practice Theory and International Relations"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject International relations -- Philosophy. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. International relations -- Philosophy Politics & government. Philosophy. Social & political philosophy. Political science & theory. International relations. Politics and Government. Form Electronic book Author Frost, Mervyn, author. ISBN 9781108645775 1108645771 9781108593328 1108593321 1108586457 9781108586450

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