It addresses topical themes and issues central to his work including sovereignty, law, epistemology, boundaries, global governance and world society.
The book includes a framing introduction written for this volume in which Kratochwil provides an intellectual biography providing context as well as an introduction to his work.
This important volume will be of very strong interest to students and scholars of international relation, political theory and law.
Table of Contents
1. A wanderer between two worlds: An attempt at an intellectual biography
PART I
Defining the approach
2. The Humean perspective on international relations
3. On the notion of "interest" in international relations
4. Sovereignty, property and propriety: The generative grammar of modernity
PART II
Writings on international law
5. Thrasymmachos revisited: On the relevance of norms and the study of law for international relations
6. The limits of contract
7. Has the "rule of law" become "rule of lawyers"? An inquiry into the use and abuse of an ancient topos in contemporary debates
PART III
Writings on epistemology
8. Constructing a new orthodoxy? Wendt's "social theory of international politics" and the constructivist challenge
9. History, action and identity: Revisiting the "second" great debate and assessing its importance for social theory
10. Ten points to ponder about pragmatism: Some critical reflections on knowledge generation in the social sciences
PART IV
Drawing boundaries: The inter/external and the private/public nexus
11. Of systems, boundaries and territoriality: An inquiry into the formation of the state system
12. The politics of place and origin: An enquiry into the changing boundaries of representation, citizenship and legitimacy
13. Global governance and the emergence of "world society"