In a recent article Emanuel Adler and Vincent Pouliot argued that attention to 'practices'
could help IR scholars overcome ontological gaps and provide a new basis, on which the …

Editor's Note: Descriptions of the state of the art in international relations usually oscillate
between the diagnosis of an impoverished present and visions of a better future based on …

Many scholars, intentionally or unintentionally, have entangled constructivisms and critical
theories in problematic ways, either by assigning a critical-theoretical politics to …

International Relations takes it all too often for granted that different scholarly sub-
communities in the field are incommensurable and, therefore, that the erosion of the …

We cannot regard truth as a goal of inquiry. The purpose of inquiry is to achieve agreement
among human beings about what to do, to bring about consensus on the ends to be …

Customary “how to” manuals are usually insulting, but wise “how to” manuals seldom teach
how to.(Glassner, 1980) Studies involving discourse as a key theoretical concept have in …

Without question there is no shortage of reflexivity in the discipline of International Relations
(IR), to the extent that after several 'grand debates' and numerous 'turns', it seems to have …

International Relations theory is being squeezed between two sides. On the one hand, the
world of practitioners and attached experts often perceive International Relations theory as …

This essay presents the case for a re-orientation of International Relations (IR) in terms of
the pragmatist ethos sketched in the work of John Dewey. It argues that contemporary IR …

Current international relations (IR) theories and approaches, which are almost exclusively
built in the West, are alien to the non-Western contexts that engender the most hard …