This book brings together the key scholars in the international practice debate to demonstrate its strengths as an innovative research perspective. The contributions show the benefit of practice theories in the study of phenomena in international security, international political economy and international organisation, by directing attention to concrete and observable everyday practices that shape international outcomes. The chapters exemplify the cross-overs and relations to other theoretical approaches, and thereby establish practice theories as a distinct IR perspective. Each chapter investigates a key concept that plays an important role in international relations theory, such as power, norms, knowledge, change or cognition. Taken together, the authors make a strong case that practice theories allow to ask new questions, direct attention to uncommon empirical material, and reach different conclusions about international relations phenomena. The book is a must read for anyone interested in recent international relations theory and the actual practices of doing global politics.
Author(s): Alena Drieschova, Christian Bueger, Ted Hopf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 321
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Contents
Figures
Table
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Part I Introduction: Conversations and the Evolution of Practice Theorizing
1 Conceptualizing International Practices
2 Critiques of the Practice Turn in IR Theory
Part II Key Concepts of IR Scholarship
3 Epistemic Communities of Practice
4 Practices and Norms
5 The Normativity of International Practices
6 Resistance as Practice
7 For a Practice Approach to Authority
8 Evolution in International Practices
Part III Innovative Concepts
9 The Dynamics of Repetition
10 Visibility
Part IV Conclusion: The Future of Practice Theorizing
11 Practices and a ‘Theory’ of Action?
12 Conclusion
References
Index
