International Practices

Emanuel Adler, Vincent Pouliot

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781139153942
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

It is in and through practices - deeds that embody shared intersubjective knowledge - that social life is organized, that subjectivities are constituted and that history unfolds. One can think of dozens of different practices (from balancing, to banking or networking) which constitute the social fabric of world politics. This book brings together leading scholars in fields from international law and humanitarianism to nuclear deterrence and the UN to provide effective new tools to understand a range of pressing issues of the era of globalization. As an entry point to the study of world politics, the concept of practice accommodates a variety of perspectives in a coherent yet flexible fashion and opens the door to much needed interdisciplinary research in international relations. International Practices crystallizes the authors' past research on international practices into a common effort to turn the study of practice into a novel research program in international relations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• International Practices
• Cambridge Studies in International Relations: 119
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figure
• Note on the contributors
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Part I Practices in International Relations and social theory
• Part II Practices and their background
• Part III The evolution of practices
• Part IV Practices in practice
• Part V Conclusion
• Index
• Cambridge Studies in International Relations