International practices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12915968 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emanuel Adler (0000-0003-3464-2143, University of Toronto, corresponding author), Vincent Pouliot (0000-0002-1820-5376, McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-36 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-9719 • E-ISSN: 1752-9727 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s175297191000031x |
| OpenAlex | W4238788511 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 474 |
| References cited | 80 |
In this article, we approach world politics through the lens of its manifold practices, which we define as competent performances. Studying International Relations (IR) from the perspective of international practices promises three key advances. First, by focusing on practices in IR, we can understand both IR theory and international politics better or differently. World politics can be conceived as structured by practices, which give meaning to international action, make possible strategic interaction, and are reproduced, changed, and reinforced by international action and interaction. This focus helps broaden the ontology of world politics, serves as a focal point around which debates in IR theory can be structured, and can be used as a unit of analysis that transcends traditional understandings of ‘levels of analysis’. We illustrate what an international practice is by revisiting Thomas Schelling's seminal works on bargaining. Second, with the help of illustrations of deterrence and arms control during the Cold War and of post-Cold War practices such as cooperative security, we show how practices constitute strategic interaction and bargaining more generally. Finally, a practice perspective opens an exciting and innovative research agenda, which suggests new research questions and puzzles, and revisits central concepts of our discipline, including power, history, and strategy
Action (physics · Cold war · Epistemology · International relations · International relations theory · International security · Law and economics · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Computer Science · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance
From actors to practices
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Making Grand Strategy in Practice
Rule in International Politics
Questioning the ‘Gold Standard’ Thinking in Qualitative Methods from a Practice Theoretical Perspective
Doing Democracy Differently
Polycentrism
Doing Democracy Differently
Restraint in International Politics
Practice Theory and International Relations
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Epistemic arbitrage
A Genealogy of Bamboo Diplomacy
Pragmatism, Practice and the Value of Security 1
The French return to Nato
Strategic partnerships, international politics and IR theory
Setting Status in Stone
From Expert Communities to Epistemic Arrangements
Organization Theory and Cooperation and Conflict Among International Organizations
Two conceptions of international practice
Meta-Moves
Norm Contestation in Latin America
Principals, Agents, and the Discipline of Planning
The Polysemy of Security Community-Building
A Rose by Any Other Name”
CAN IR Hear? Grasping the Global Politics of Languages
What Isn't a Norm? Redefining the Conceptual Boundaries of “Norms” in the Human Rights Literature
Just Theater!”—How Self-Legitimation Practices Can Backfire in International Organizations
Symbolic practices of legitimation
Forum
Forum
Agential Constructivism and Change in World Politics
Crisis and Transformative Learning in Communities of Practice
Cultivating Communities of Practice
The ‘Chinese Dream’ and the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’
The Territorialization of Cyberspace
Crisis as practice
How Expert Committees Become Group Agents
Sand in the Gears
Filthy Lapdogs,” “Jerks,” and “Hitler”
The Benefits of Friendliness
From Doctrine to Practice
Moving Beyond the CNN Effect or Stuck in the Middle? How Relational Sociology Remaps Media and Security Studies
Lateral Relations in World Politics
It's Ordered Chaos
When an International Organization Fails to Legitimate
The Dog That Did Not Bark, the Dog That Did Bark, and the Dog That Should Have Barked
Rethinking Roles
Beyond State and Hegemony
Reflexive Pluralism in IR
The use of digital diplomacy as a tool for symbolic violence
Ritual, emotion, and change in world politics
Preserving the ‘pecking order’ in Europe’s diplomatic hierarchies
Geopolitics and Nationality in Chilean Foreign Policy Relating to Border Regions
‘Inside’ the AI Act Negotiations
Power in practice
The Bureaucratic Competency
Civil Society at the United Nations Through the Lens of Organizational Sociology
Cambiando prácticas en el campo de la ayuda internacional para el desarrollo
Bureaucratic and Market Sources of Epistemic Authority
The Global South contestation narratives and the transformation of military humanitarian interventions in the early 1990s
“Bridge” States in International Relations
Of predators and new men
Experiencing Time and Space within the United Nations
Controversial Practices
‘Domesticating’ and differentiating the European Union
Climate agreement-making across negotiation and non-negotiation spaces
Reframing Legalization, Compliance and Rule by Law as Law as Practice
Stk’larin İnsani̇ Di̇plomasi̇ Alani
The Medium, the Message, and the Mission
Substance- or legitimacy-oriented (de)legitimation of global governance institutions. The double-edged role of complexity
Sociability in International Politics
The Climatization of Global Politics
Governing Migration Beyond the State
Arctic governance
Democratism
North Africa and the Making of Europe
The Micro-Sociology of Peace and Conflict
Practicing Peace
A Relational Ethics of Immigration
World Ordering
On Resilience
Why we should see international law as a structure
Interpreting foreign policy
The discursive process of resemantisation
The development of local knowledge orders
Lost Without Translation? Cross-Referencing and a New Global Community of Courts
Meanings and practices of accountability in the international development sector
Gangster diplomacy and the disordering of international society
The evolving Moroccan-European community of practice in green energy transition
“Vieille banque vs banque nouvelle… still?, The Francesco Guicciardini prize forum”
Peacekeepers Abroad
Reconfigurar El Territorio Más Allá Del Estado. Prácticas Transfronterizas Aymara Y Economía Del Saber Médico Andino
Stretching concepts at the cowshed
Modelling norm clarification
Citizenship and the Practice of Governance in South-East Europe
NGO legitimation as practice
Pathways to practice
Before eclecticism
Social bonding in diplomacy
Progress in Postwar International Relations
Human Agency and Language
Legitimacy and Legality in International Law
Communities of Practice
European Defence Policy
The Invisible Constitution of Politics
Through the practice lens
Knowledge and Organization
Bridging Epistemologies
Constructivism and International Relations
The practice turn in contemporary theory
Strategic Interaction
Symbolic Interactionism
Social construction of international politics
Conflict Among Nations
Nato in the “New Europe”
Rules, Norms, and Decisions
Perception and Misperception in International Politics
Deterrence Now
Power in Global Governance
The Oxford Handbook of International Relations
Strategic Choice and International Relations
The Convergence of Civilizations
Culture and Security
Social Theory of International Politics
International Security in Practice
Ideas and Foreign Policy
Reassembling the Social
The Logic of Practice
Gender Trouble
International practices
Reassembling and Dissecting
Theory Synthesis in International Relations
Pragmatism and International Relations
Of false promises and good bets
Security as Practice — Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War
Crisis, What Crisis? Liberal Order Building and World Order Conventions
Pragmatic Constructivism and the Study of International Institutions
The Geopolitics of Geopolitical Space
When security community meets balance of power
Shape-shifting Nato
On diplomacy
Unarmed Forces
The materials of practice
Anchoring Europe's civilizing identity
Getting Socialized to Build Bridges
International Institutions and Socialization in Europe
Parapublic Underpinnings of International Relations
Activists beyond borders
Dialogues in Arab politics
The social theory of practices
Inside/outside
The Game Theory of International Politics
Signaling Foreign Policy Interests
The Diplomacy of Opting Out
Sobjectivism
The Logic of Practicality
International Norm Dynamics and Political Change
On Acting and Knowing
Let's Argue
The emergence of cooperation
Relations Before States
The logic of habit in International Relations
Aporia
The Spread of Security Communities
Twisting Tongues and Twisting Arms
A Reconstruction of Constructivism in International Relations
Researching Strategy Practices
Returning Practice to the Linguistic Turn
Untimely Russia
Culture in Action
Ideas and Foreign Policy
Culture and Preferences in the International Cooperation Two-Step
Toward a Theory of Social Practices
Power Elites and Everyday Politics in International Financial Reform
A Theory of Structure
Speech Acts
| Unique citing works | 474 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 31,6 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 472 |