Recovering International Relations

Tables ; Figures ; Introduction: Sustainable Critique and the Lost Vocation of International Relations ; The Lost Vocation ; Critique and the Loss of Vocation ; Sustainable Critique (1): The Problem of Reification ; Sustainable Critique (2): Reification in International Theory ; Sustainable Critique (3): Chastened Reason ; Plan of the Work ; Chapter One: "For We Born After:" The Challenge of Sustainable Critique ; Between Comte and Catastrophe ; Sustainable Critique as an Ethical Commitment: The Animus Habitandi ; The Ethical Lacuna in IR: Three Examples ; From Critique to Sustainable Critique ; 'Non-Identity' and Negative Dialectics ; A Logical Impasse? ; Chapter Two: Sustainable Critique and Critical IR Theory: Against Emancipation ; A New Hope: Emancipation in Critical IR Theory ; Post-National Liberalism and Pragmatism ; The Adornian Alternative: Constellation and a Hermeneutic Turn ; Concretizing the Constellation in IR: Allison's Essence of Decision ; Toward Sustainable Critique: Concluding Thoughts ; Chapter Three: The Realist Dilemma: Politics and the Limits of Theory ; The 'Dutch Boy Syndrome': Morgenthau's Despairing Vocation ; 1. Morgenthau's Positive Dialectics ; 2. The Limits of Positive Dialectics: Reification, Despair, Backlash ; 3. From Reification to Sustainable Critique: Morgenthau's Missed Opportunity ; Reification by "Ontological Smuggling": Waltz's Middle-Range Realism ; Epistemological Lowballing: Wendt's 'Third Way' ; Concluding Thoughts: Critical Realism and Sustainable Critique ; Chapter Four: Communitarian IR Theory: "The Common Socius of us All" ; IR-Liberalism: Two Traditions ; Between Community and Individual ; Plan of the Chapter ; Metaphysical Communitarianism: Functionalism ; 1. The Fabian Impasse ; 2. The Mitranyan Breakthrough ; The 'Wise Android': Deutsch's Cybernetic Turn ; 'Third-way' Communitarianism and the Primacy of Vision: Adler ; Concluding Thoughts: From Communitarian to Individualist IR ; Chapter Five: Individualist IR Theory: Disharmonious Cooperation ; IR-Liberalism: From Communitarian to Individualist ; Plan of the Chapter ; Metaphysical Individualism: Ernst Haas and the Renewed March of Reason ; 1. Against Communitarianism: Neo-Functionalism and 'Managed Gesellschaft' ; 2. From Neo-functionalism to Liberal Nationalism: Taking up the Gauntlet of Reflexivity ; Middle-Range Individualism: Keohane's Disharmonious Cooperation and 'Humility' ; 1. Complex Interdependence and the Middle-Range Turn ; 2. Liberal Institutionalism's Unsustainable Reflexivity ; "Third-Way" Individualism: Multiple Paradigms and the 'Pirandello Problem' ; Conclusion: Toward Sustainably Critical International Theory ; The 'Hermeneutic Sphere': Toward a Sustainably Critical Research Program ; Sympathetic Knowledge ; A Working Example: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and IR ; 1. Building up the Hermeneutic 'Third Axis' ; 2. Constructing the Constellation: an Analytical Table of Contents ; The Constellar Production of Compassion ; Politics without Compassion: More of the Same? ; Works Cited