Commonsense Constructivism, Or, The Making of World AffairsM.E. Sharpe, 2000 - 248 pages This engaging book presents an intriguing new approach to understanding world affairs. "Constructivism" first found its way to IR -- the field of international relations -- in an exceptionally demanding form. This book is quite the opposite. In a highly readable and witty way, Commonsense Constructivism, or the Making of World Affairs, makes clear how everything around us (IR included) is constructed. In the process, it also shows how narrow the standard IR approaches are, and how much we miss as a consequence. Ralph Pettman's conceptual framework of state-making, wealth-making, self-making, and mind-making allows us to see such notions as "globalization" in a revealing new light. This work is intended to be fully accessible to students, but it will be welcomed by anyone who has been mystified by constructivism -- or who simply wants to better understand the ways we understand our world. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: Commonsense Constructivism 1. Making World Affairs I. THE NEGLECTED ASPECTS OF THE DISCIPLINE 2. Making Modernity 3. Making Sovereign Selves, Social Collectives, and Nations II. THE DOMINANT ASPECTS OF THE DISCIPLINE 4. Making States and Making Markets CONCLUSION: A Constructed World |
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... contemporary — and not so contemporary — European ones , began reexamining the first premises of the scientizing study of world affairs . This opened the door to the postmodernist approach . Through that door came analysts looking for ...
... contemporary IR / IPE . And there are others again who would sweep IR / IPE aside in favor of social theorizing of a much more com- prehensive kind ; in favor , that is , of a different discipline , or even a different world . Given the ...
... contemporary talk about culture and identity and norms . It is our ability to do strict social science that he specifically wants to conserve . Social Theory Constructivism The second main category of constructivists — the " social ...
... Contemporary world affairs are couched by conventional proponents of the discipline in very particular terms . They stress , as will be pointed out in the next chapter , particular dimensions of the subject and particular analytical ...
... contemporary discipline of world affairs , though the study of politico - strategic world affairs is of much longer standing , at least in the United States , than the study of politico - economic ones . Because these dimensions are so ...
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THE NEGLECTED ASPECTS OF THE DISCIPLINE | 69 |
Making Modernity | 71 |
Making Sovereign Selves Social Collectives and Nations | 110 |
THE DOMINANT ASPECTS OF THE DISCIPLINE | 149 |
Making States and Making Markets | 151 |
A Constructed World | 210 |
References | 231 |
Index | 241 |