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POWER, REALISM AND

CONSTRUCTIVISM

Stefano Cuzzini

Routledge
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Taylor & Francis Group

LONDON AND NEW YORK

CONTENTS

List of
Acknowledgements

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Introduction: power and the study of politics

xiii
xiv

PARTI
Power

13

1 Structural power: the limits of neorealist power analysis

15

2 The use and misuse of power analysis in international

theory
3 From (alleged) unipolarity to the decline of multilateralism?
A power-theoretical critique

47

4 Niklas Luhmann's conceptualization of power

77

5 Pierre Bourdieu's field analysis of relational capital,

misrecognition and domination

93

61

PART II

Realism
6 The enduring dilemmas of realism in International Relations

107
109

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Contents

7 The different worlds of realism in International Relations

136

8 Foreign policy without diplomacy: the Bush administration

at a crossroads

146

9 Robert Gilpin: a realist quest for the dynamics of power

152

10 Susan Strange's oscillating realism: opposing the ideal and the apparent

175

PART III

Constructivism

187

11 A reconstruction of constructivism in International Relations

189

12 The concept of power: a constructivist analysis

217

13 'The Cold War is what we make of it': when peace

research meets constructivism in International Relations
14 Alexander Wendt's constructivism: a relentless quest
for synthesis (with Anna Leander)

237
247

15 Imposing coherence: the central role of practice in

Friedrich Kratochwil's theorising of politics,
international relations and science

268

Epilogue: the significance and roles of teaching theory

in International Relations

286

Bibliography
Index

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