This book builds a theoretical approach to the intractable problem
of theory/practice in international relations (IR) and develops
tools to study how theory and practice 'hang together' in
international security. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's political
sociology, the book argues that theory and practice take part in
struggles over basic understandings (doxa) in international fields
through what the book calls doxic battles. In these battles e.g.
scientific facts, military hardware and social networks are
mobilised as weapons in a fight for recognition. NATO's
transformation and fight for survival and the rapidly growing
number of think tanks in European security in the 1990s is taken as
an example of these processes. The book studies a variety of
sources such as funding to science programmes in Europe; think
tanks and research centres in European security; NATO's relations
with the EU, the WEU and the OSCE; and the mobilization of theory
at crucial points in the transformation process. Theory as Practice
and Capital will be of interest to students and scholars of
international relations, security studies and critical theory.
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