Uncovering the Source of International Order

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ID12693565
AuthorsBrian Mccormack (0000-0002-4506-5241, Arizona State University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume7
Issue3
Pages499-501
Publication date2005-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-2486 • E-ISSN: 1521-9488
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1521-9488.2005.00528.x
OpenAlexW2047740812
LanguageEN
References cited6

Ordering International Politics by Janice Bially Mattern is a superbly crafted piece of scholarship. Its greatest asset is Bially Mattern's ability to speak across a variety of theoretical approaches in ways that are methodologically and philosophically important. In Ordering International Politics, she manages to merge realism and constructivism in a postconstructivist “identity turn” that places identity and language at the center of both understanding and creating international order. Building primarily on the work of two related groups of theorists, Bially Mattern's initial empirical concern in Ordering International Politics is with “security communities.” In security communities—a term coined by Karl Deutsch et al. (1957) and developed by, among others, Emanuel Adler and Michael Barnett (1998)—identity appears as “we-ness.” To clarify an understanding of how “we-ness” is created, Bially Mattern explores several possible variants of identity theory before concentrating on social constructivism. Although this body of theory is quite broad

Aesthetics · Constructivism (international relations · Epistemology · Identity (music · Identity politics · International relations · International relations theory · Merge (version control · Political science · Politics · Realism · Scholarship · Social constructivism · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Philosophy

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