On Rules, Politics and Knowledge
Friedrich Kratochwil, International Relations, and Domestic Affairs
Friedrich Kratochwil was a leading voice in constructivist International Relations. In this volume, an impressive array of established scholars reflect on the concerns that have animated his work for over four decades, including the ways in which normative phenomena, political choices and knowledge claims are linked in practice. Always sceptical of grand projects and easy generalizations, he has made a career of documenting complexity and ambiguity while making unexpected connections and
following suggestive lines of inquiry. This book reflects the same disposition. For Kratochwil, there is nothing neat, deeply ordered or easily predicted about the world that we have constructed for ourselves, and so it is for the book's contributors. Organized in three parts – Thinking with Kratochwil, Arguing with Kratochwil and Building on Kratochwil – to reflect the dynamic nature and current status of scholarly debates in international politics, On Rules, Politics and Knowledge will figure in these debates for years to come.
Contents
Foreword; R.Falk
Introduction; The Editors
PART I: THINKING WITH KRATOCHWIL: SPEECH, REASON, AND KNOWLEDGE
De Gustibus (valoribus) est Disputandum: Contra Realpolitik without Politics, Theory without Reflexivity, Science without Judgment; S.Guzzini
From Logic to Logics: The Relationship of Particular Cases to General Patterns in Social Life; J.W.Davis
Game Theory and Reciprocity: Toward a Social Perspective; D.W.Larson
'Trust me, I promise!': Kratochwil's Contributions towards the Explanation of the Structure of Normative Social Relations; R.B.Hall
What Do We Mean When We Say that Substance Matters?; J.Friedrichs
On Norms, Communication and the Problem of Practice; O.Kessler
Social Science: Social or Scientific Project; R.N.Lebow
PART II: ARGUING WITH KRATOCHWIL: RULES, NORMS, AND ETHICS
Rules in Practice; N.Onuf
The Aesthetics of Power: Constructivist Historicism versus Thucydides; M.Loriaux
Don't Reify Agency: International Law and Moral Action in an NGO World; C.Lynch
Cynical Rascals or Conscientious Objectors? Interpreting Noncompliance with International Norms; M.Bukovansky
Rules, Norms, Revisions?; N.J.Rengger
PART III: BUILDING ON KRATOCHWIL: PERSUASION, ORDER, CHANGE
The Quest for Persuasion: Habermasian Thought and the New German Idealism in International Relations; J.Steffek
Normative Baggage in International Encounters: Contestation All the Way; A.Wiener
Rules and Norms in a Post-Western World; C.Brown
Understanding Change in International Politics, Again and Again and Again; R.Koslowski
The 'Inter' According to Fritz: Rethinking IR's Proverbial Toolbox; M.Albert & Y.Lapid
Friedrich Kratochwil's Published Work, 1971-2009
