Praxis as a Perspective on International Politics /

11 The Praxis of Change and Theory.

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Front Cover -- Half-title -- Series Information -- Praxis as a Perspective on International Polotics -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Praxis as a Perspective on International Politics -- Situating praxis theorizing -- Fritz Kratochwil and praxis theorizing -- Outline of the volume -- References -- Part I Theorizing Praxis -- 2 Knowing, Remembering, Showing But Still Not Seeing: Critical Praxis, Slavery and the Modern 'We' -- Introduction -- Knowing and Hume's silence -- Remembering and forgetting slavery

Showing and seeing -- Reconstituting the conversation -- References -- 3 Friedrich Kratochwil: Prophet of Doubt? -- Introduction -- Time, meaning and history -- Kratochwil's Humean theology of action -- Prophecy and doubt -- False prophecy -- The prophet's 'universe'/to whom does the prophet speak? -- Conclusion: Action and meaning in our common life -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4 Styles of Theorizing International Practice -- Introduction -- The new theoretical uncertainty -- The practice turn's 'theory debate' -- Theorizing: some basic considerations and themes

Styles of theorizing practice -- Exploring some exemplars -- Mechanism -- Meditation -- Method -- Experimentation -- Theorizing creatively -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 5 Practising Theorizing in Theorizing Praxis: Friedrich Kratochwil and Social Inquiry -- Introduction -- Theorizing praxis -- Practising theorizing -- Theorizing theorizing -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part II Praxis and the Law -- 6 If Not Rome or The Hague, Where? Reflections on Sanctioning and Punishing -- Introduction -- Kratochwil on sanctions -- Kratochwil on punishment

Theory and practice: a short digression -- Praxis and policy -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Practical Constitutionalism -- Introduction -- Kratochwil's Aristotle -- Aristotle's practical constitutionalism -- Practical global constitutionalism -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Rules, Institutions and Decisions: Taking Distribution Seriously -- Introduction -- Rules and distribution -- Two intellectual operations -- The distributive role of international organizations -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Biology, Contingency and History

9 I Think, Therefore IR? Psychology, Biology and the Notion of Praxis -- Introduction -- The psychology of feelings, cognition and behaviour -- Evolutionary legacy -- From culture to cognition -- Behavioural genetics -- Cultural epigenetics? -- Practising praxis -- Psychobiology of praxis -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 Practice, Intersubjectivity and the Problem of Contingency -- Introduction -- On the problem of cooperation in game theory and beyond -- Contingency and the logic of social facts -- A Humean approach to uncertainty? Institutions as discovery process -- Conclusion -- References

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Bringing together leading figures in the study of international relations, this collection explores praxis as a perspective on international politics and law. It builds on the transdisciplinary work of Friedrich Kratochwil to reveal the scope, limits and blind spots of praxis theorizing.

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