Karin M. Fierke - Constructing International Relations: The Next Generation

International Relations in a Constructed World

International Relations in a Constructed World
Vendulka Kublkov, Nicholas Onuf, and Ralph Pettman, editors

Commonsense Constructivism, or The Making of World Affairs
Ralph Pettman

Constructing International Relations: The Next Generation
Karin Fierke and Knud Eric Jrgensen, editors

Series Editors

Vendulka Kublkov, University of Miami
Nicholas Onuf, Florida International University
Ralph Pettman, Victoria University of Wellington

Editorial Advisory Board

Emanuel Adler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
David Blaney, Macalester College
Kurt Burch, University of Delaware
Stuart Corbridge, University of Miami
Franois Debrix, Florida International University
Gavan Duffy, Syracuse University
Karin Fierke, Queens University of Belfast
Rodney Hall, University of Iowa
Ted Hopf, Ohio State University
Paul Kowert, Florida International University
Lily Ling, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine
Elisabeth Prgl, Florida International University
Wayne Sandholtz, University of California, Irvine
Jutta Weldes, Bristol University

First published 2001 by M.E. Sharpe

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Constructing international relations: the next generation / edited by Karin M. Fierke and
Knud Erik Jrgensen.
p. cm. (international relations in a constructed world)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7656-0738-7 (cloth: alk. paper)ISBN 0-7656-0739-5 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. International relationsMethodology. 2. International relationsPhilosophy.
3. Constructivism (Philosophy) I. Fierke, K. M. (Karin M.) II. Jrgensen, Knud Erik.
III. Series.

JZ1305 .C665 2001
327.101dc21

00-067135
CIP

ISBN 13: 9780765607393 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 9780765607386 (hbk)

K.M. Fierke and Knud Erik Jrgensen

Friedrich V. Kratochwil

Knud Erik Jrgensen

Maja Zehfuss

Birgit Locher and Elisabeth Prgl

Mathias Albert

K.M. Fierke

Jennifer Milliken

Harald Mller

Lars G. Lose

Ben Rosamond

Audie Klotz

Nicholas G. Onuf

Mathias Albert is an assistant professor at Darmstadt University of Technology. His main areas of research include international relations theory, the theory of world society, and the evolution of transnational law. He has recently co-edited (with L. Brock and K.D. Wolf) Civilizing World Politics. Society and Community Beyond the State (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) and (with D. Jacobson and Y. Lapid) Identities, Borders, Orders: New Directions in IR Theory (University of Minnesota Press, 2000) and is currently preparing a monograph on The Politics of World Society.

K.M. Fierke is a lecturer in the School of Politics, Queens University Belfast, and has also worked at the Amsterdam School of Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, and Nuffield College, Oxford University. She is the author of Changing Games, Changing Strategies: Critical Investigations in Security (Manchester University Press and St. Martins Press, 1998), and numerous articles about constructivism and changing security relations, appearing in the European Journal of International Relations, Millennium, Global Society, International Feminist Journal of International Relations, and Journal of European Public Policy.

Knud Erik Jrgensen is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus. He specializes in European integration studies, foreign policy, security studies, and international theory. He has edited Reflective Approaches to European Governance (Macmillan, 1997), European Approaches to Crisis Management (Kluwer, 1997) and co-edited (with Thomas Christiansen and Antje Wiener) The Social Construction of Europe (Sage, forthcoming 2001). He is currently preparing a book on the nexus between globalization and European integration.

Audie Klotz is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her book, Norms in InternationalRelations (Cornell, 1995) won the Edgar S. Furniss Prize in security studies. She is co-author, with Cecelia Lynch, of Constructing Global Politics: Strategies for Research in a Postpositivist World (Cornell University Press, 2001) and has written additional pieces on international relations theory, sanctions policies, and southern African politics.

Friedrich V. Kratochwil is a professor of International Politics at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut of the University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt). His research interests include international organization and international law. He is author of International Order and Foreign Policy (Westview Press, 1978); Rules, Norms and Decisions: On the Conditions of Practical and Legal Reasoning in International Relations and Domestic Society (Cambridge University Press, 1989) as well as numerous articles. He has edited with Yosef Lapid, The Return of Culture and Identity in International Relations Theory (Lynne Riener, 1996). As of May 1, 1999, he has taken over the editorship of The European Journal of International Relations.

Birgit Locher is a researcher and Ph.D. student at the University of Bremen, Germany. She holds an M.A. from the University of Konstanz and has studied at Rutgers and Cornell. Her publications include several articles and book chapters on gender in international relations. She is currently completing her dissertation on trafficking in women in the European Union.