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Language matters in international relations. Constructivists have contributed the insight that global politics is shaped by the way agents narrate history and produce discourses about themselves and about the world. This insight has induced a profound reexamination of assumptions in the study of international relations. The contributors to this volume examine (Part I) the critical linguistic/discursive techniques of postmodernists and constructivists, and apply them (Part II) to international relations.
List of contents
I: The Linguistic Turn; 1: Language, Nonfoundationalism, International Relations; 2: Parsing Personal Identity: Self, Other, Agent; 3: Constructivist International Relations Theory and the Semantics of Performative Language; 4: Breaking the Silence: Language and Method in International Relations; 5: Three Ways of Spilling Blood; II: Language, Agency, and Politics; 6: Real Interdependence: Discursivity and Concursivity in International Politics; 7: Criticism and Form: Speech Acts, Normativity, and the Postcolonial Gaze; 8: The Difference that Language-Power Makes: Solving the Puzzle of the Suez Crisis; 9: Conflicting Narratives, Conflicting Moralities: The United Nations and the Failure of Humanitarian Intervention; 10: Language, Rules, and Order: The Westpolitik Debate of Adenauer and Schumacher; 11: “Ce n'est pas une Guerre/This Is Not a War”: The International Language and Practice of Political Violence
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Francois Debrix
Summary
Language matters in international relations. Constructivists have contributed the insight that global politics is shaped by the way agents narrate history and produce discourses about themselves and about the world. This insight has induced a profound reexamination of assumptions in the study of international relations. The contributors to this volume examine (Part I) the critical linguistic/discursive techniques of postmodernists and constructivists, and apply them (Part II) to international relations.
