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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... liberalism , knew a lot about their own point of view , but notably less about anything else . Karl Marx was not in local curricula , and since Marx was the intellectual mentor of the United States's Cold War enemies , this was no ...
... liberalism , it is common sense to talk of free markets and the free flow of international capital . To those who are masculinist , it is common sense to have a gender - based division of labor . And to those who are environmentalists ...
... liberalist bias , we are left with " world affairs , " which does not discriminate in this regard . Thus , while " world affairs " is a very general term , it is not so gen- eral as to cease to make sense when referring to the subject ...
... liberalism itself , globalism , and Marxism . I should say at the outset that all the chapters that follow , describing not only the politico - cultural context of modernist world affairs but also the three key dimensions of them ...
... liberalist trichotomy that currently structures the practice of world affairs . However , like the politico - economic map , the politico - social one is notable by its absence . All the World's a Stage ... If map - making seems ...
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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 |