International relations' last synthesis? : decoupling constructivist and critical approaches

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International relations' last synthesis? : decoupling constructivist and critical approaches

J. Samuel Barkin and Laura Sjoberg

Oxford University Press, c2019

  • : hardcover

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Includes index

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Many scholars, intentionally or unintentionally, have entangled constructivisms and critical theories in problematic ways, either by assigning a critical-theoretical politics to constructivisms or by assuming the appropriateness of constructivist epistemology and methods for critical theorizing. IR's Last Synthesis? makes the argument that these connections mirror IR's grand theoretical syntheses of the 1980s and 1990s and have similar constraining effects on the possibilities of IR theory. They have been made without adequate reflection, in contradiction to the base assumptions of each theoretical perspective, and to the detriment of both knowledge accumulation about global politics and theoretical rigor in disciplinary IR. It is not that constructivisms and critical theories have no common ground; rather, the fact that it has become routine for IR scholars to overstate their common ground is counterproductive to the discovery and utilization of their potential dialogues. To that end, IR's Last Synthesis? argues that scholars using the two in conjunction should be cognizant of, rather than gloss over, the tensions between the approaches and the tools they have to offer. Along these lines, the book uses the concept of affordances to look at what each has to offer the other, and to argue for a modest, reflective, specified return to (constructivist and critical) IR theorizing. By rejecting its over-simple syntheses, this book hews a road toward reviving IR theorizing.

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Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Constructivist-Critical Theory Synthesis Chapter 3: Understanding and Classifying Constructivisms Chapter 4: Constructivism Does Not Have a Politics Chapter 5: Understanding and Classifying Critical Approaches Chapter 6: Critical Theory is Ontologically Promiscuous and Methodologically Agnostic Chapter 7: A Case Against the Constructivist-Critical Theory Synthesis Chapter 8: Thinking Beyond the Constructivist-Critical Theory Synthesis Notes References Index

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