Agents, Structures and International Relations: Politics as OntologyCambridge University Press, 12. okt. 2006 The agent-structure problem is a much discussed issue in the field of international relations. In his comprehensive 2006 analysis of this problem, Colin Wight deconstructs the accounts of structure and agency embedded within differing IR theories and, on the basis of this analysis, explores the implications of ontology - the metaphysical study of existence and reality. Wight argues that there are many gaps in IR theory that can only be understood by focusing on the ontological differences that construct the theoretical landscape. By integrating the treatment of the agent-structure problem in IR theory with that in social theory, Wight makes a positive contribution to the problem as an issue of concern to the wider human sciences. At the most fundamental level politics is concerned with competing visions of how the world is and how it should be, thus politics is ontology. |
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The habitus intersubjectivity rules places roles duties rights | 50 |
from | 62 |
3 The agentstructure problem in IR | 90 |
reductionist or not? | 91 |
agents or structures | 99 |
Structure as relations of difference that constitute | 131 |
Structure as rules and resources | 137 |
When we scratch the surface of what we are told | 155 |
some final comments | 174 |
5 Agency | 177 |
Agential stories | 180 |
Epistemology | 231 |
the | 243 |
The agentstructure levelsofanalysis and | 102 |
4 Structure | 121 |
two traditions and five models | 123 |
Structure as lawlike regularities that govern | 129 |
Methodology | 257 |
Social causation as an ontologically grounded | 272 |
Methodology and the agentstructure relationship | 279 |
8 Conclusion | 290 |
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