This text interrogates and extends Friedrich Kratochwil's pathbreaking work on knowledge, normative phenomena, and political practice in international relations. Contributors reflect on the ways in which normative phenomena, politics, and knowledge claims are linked in practice.

This is a book on methods, how scholars embody them and how working within, from or against Constructivism has shaped that use and embodiment. A vibrant cross-section of contributors write of interdisciplinary encounters, first interactions with the 'discipline' of International Relations, discuss engagements in different techniques and tactics, and of pursuing different methods ranging from ethnographic to computer simulations, from sociology to philosophy and history. Presenting a range of voices, many constructivist, some outside and even critical of Constructivism, the volume shows methods as useful tools for approaching research and political positions in International Relations, while also containing contingent, inexact, unexpected, and even surprising qualities for opening further research. It gives a rich account of how the discipline was transformed in the 1990s and early 2000s, and how this shaped careers, positions and interactions. It will be of interest to both students and scholars of methods and theory in International Relations and global politics.

This is a book on methods, how scholars embody them and how working within, from or against Constructivism has shaped that use and embodiment. A vibrant cross-section of contributors write of interdisciplinary encounters, first interactions with the 'discipline' of International Relations, discuss engagements in different techniques and tactics, and of pursuing different methods ranging from ethnographic to computer simulations, from sociology to philosophy and history. Presenting a range of voices, many constructivist, some outside and even critical of Constructivism, the volume shows methods as useful tools for approaching research and political positions in International Relations, while also containing contingent, inexact, unexpected, and even surprising qualities for opening further research. It gives a rich account of how the discipline was transformed in the 1990s and early 2000s, and how this shaped careers, positions and interactions. It will be of interest to both students and scholars of methods and theory in International Relations and global politics.

Die Ereignisse der letzten vier Jahre auf den globalen Finanzmarkten sind aus der Perspektive der Internationalen Politischen Okonomie einzigartig: Innerhalb weniger Monate hat sich das Platzen der spekulativen Blase auf dem amerikanischen Immobilienfinanzierungsmarkt zur wohl grossten Finanzkrise seit Ende des zweiten Weltkriegs entwickelt. Dabei erstaunt weniger das Platzen der Blase selbst - Blasenbildung allein ist nichts aussergewohnliches. Was die Internationale Politische Okonomie in praktischer wie auch theoretischer Sicht aber vor Probleme stellt, ist die unaufhaltsame Ausbreitung und Hartnackigkeit der Krise. Dieser Band versucht die Komplexitat und die unterschiedlichen Krafte der Krise in den Blick zu bekomme