Praxis as a Perspective on International Politics

1. Introduction: Praxis as a Perspective on International Politics - Gunther Hellmann and Jens Steffek


Part 1: Theorizing Praxis


2. Knowing, Remembering, Showing But Still Not Seeing: Critical Praxis, Slavery and the Modern 'We' - K.M. Fierke


3. Friedrich Kratochwil: Prophet of Doubt? - Cecelia Lynch


4. Styles of Theorizing International Practice - Christian Bueger


5. Practising Theorizing in Theorizing Praxis: Friedrich Kratochwil and Social Inquiry - Gunther Hellmann


Part 2: Praxis and the Law


6. If Not Rome or The Hague, Where? Reflections on Sanctioning and Punishing - Chris Brown


7. Practical Constitutionalism - Anthony F. Lang, Jr.


8. Rules, Institutions and Decisions: Taking Distribution Seriously - Jan Klabbers


Part 3: Biology, Contingency and History


9. I Think, Therefore IR? Psychology, Biology and the Notion of Praxis - James W. Davis


10. Practice, Intersubjectivity and the Problem of Contingency - Oliver Kessler


11. The Praxis of Change and Theory - Mathias Albert


12. Thinking on Time: How Scholarly Praxis Can Sustain, Subvert and Transform Social Reality - Joerg Friedrichs


Part 4: Theorizing as Intervention


13. Practising Academic Intervention: An Agonistic Reading of Praxis - Antje Wiener


14. Between Science and Politics: Friedrich Kratochwil's Praxis of 'Going On' - Patrick Thaddeus Jackson


15 Praxis, Humanism and the Quest for Wholeness - Jens Steffek


Part 5: Conversing with Critics


16. Acting, Representing, Ruling: A Conversation with My Critics on Social Reproduction and the Logic of Social Inquiry - Friedrich Kratochwil