Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1 Constructivism
6. 1 A Constructivist Manifesto 5
7. Part 2 Constructing IPE as a Worldview
8. 2 Constituting IPE and Modernity 19
9. 3 Echoes of Commercial Society: Liberal Political Theory in Mainstream IPE 41
10. Part 3 Constructing IPE as a Discipline
11. 4 Economic Anxiety: Reification, De-Reification, and the Politics of IPE 57
12. 5 Of Markets and Men: The (Re)Making(s) of IPE 79
13. 6 Hegemony’s Hegemony in IPE 91
14. Part 4 Constructing Practices
15. 7 Contesting Hegemony: Americanism and Far-Right Ideologies of Globalization 111
16. 8 The Global Village and the Global Ghetto: Realism, Structural Materialism, and Agency in Globalization 139
17. Part 5 Constructing Alternative Approaches
18. 9 The Rational Constitution of Agents and Structures 153
19. 10 The Limits to a Rationalist Understanding of IPE 169
20. Part 6 Commentaries
21. 11 Taking Off the Gender Blinders in IPE 187
22. 12 Constituting, Deconstructing, and Reconstituting IPE 195
23. 13 Commenting on Constituting IPE 201
24. 14 Constructive Criticism: Threats, Imperatives, and Opportunities of a Constitutive IPE 207
25. Contributors and Commentators 213
26. Index 217
27. About the Book 231