Language, Agency, and Politics in a Constructed World (Hardcover)

Introduction, Francois Debrix; Part I. The Linguistic Turn: Theories and Concepts; 1. Language, Non-Foundationalism, International Relations, Francois Debrix; 2. Parsing Personal Identity: Self, Other, Agent, Nicholas Onuf; 3. Constructivist International Relations Theory and the Semantics of Performative Language, Harry Gould; 4. Breaking the Silence: Language and Method in International Relations, K. M. Fierke; 5. Three Ways of Spilling Blood, Kennan Ferguson; Part II. Language, Agency and Politics: Cases and Applications; 6. Real Interdependence: Discursivity and Concursivity in International Politics, Timothy W. Luke; 7. Criticism and Form: Speech Acts, Normativity, and the Postcolonial Gaze, Siba Grovogui; 8. The Difference that Language-Power Makes: Solving the Puzzle of the Suez Crisis, Janice Bially Mattern; 9. Conflicting Narratives, Conflicting Moralities: The United Nations and the Failure of Humanitarian Intervention, Anthony F. Lang, Jr.; 10. Language, Rules and Order: Westpolitik Debate of Adenauer and Schumacher, Katja Weber and Paul Kowert; 11. "Ce n'est pas une Guerre"/This is not War: The International Language and Practice of Political Violence, Franke Wilmer