Conceptualizing International Practices

Alena Drieschova is Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Cambridge. She is currently working on her book manuscript, which provides a macro-historical analysis of international order stability and change based on changes in material culture. Christian Bueger is professor of international relations at the University of Copenhagen, honorary professor at the University of Seychelles and a research fellow at the University of Stellenbosch. He is the author of International Practice Theory (2018 with Frank Gadinger). Ted Hopf is a Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies. His main fields of interest are international relations theory, qualitative research methods, and identity. His article, "Change in International Practices," published in the European Journal of International Relations, received the European International Studies Association Award for Best Article in EJIR, in 2017.

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: Conversations and the Evolution of Practice Theorizing: 1. Conceptualizing international practices: establishing a research agenda in conversations Alena Drieschova and Christian Bueger; 2. Critiques of the practice turn in IR theory: some responses Ted Hopf; Part II. Key Concepts of IR Scholarship: 3. Epistemic communities of practice Emanuel Adler and Michael Faubert; 4. Practices and norms: relationships, disjunctures and change Steven Bernstein and Marion Laurence; 5. The Normativity of international practices Frank Gadinger; 6. Resistance as practice: counter-conduct after foucault William Walters; 7. For a practice approach to authority: the case of the emergence of central bankers' international authority Joelle Dumouchel; 8. Evolution in international practices Vincent Pouliot; Part III. Innovative Concepts: 9. The dynamics of repetition: translocal practice and transnational negotiations Hilmar Schäfe; 10. Visibility: practices of seeing and overlooking Jonathan Luke Austin with Anna Leander; Part III. Conclusion: The Future of Practice Theorizing: 11. Practices and a 'theory' of action? some conceptual issues concerning 'ends', 'reasons' and 'happiness' Friedrich Kratochwil; 12. Conclusion: The semiotic web of international practice theorizing Alena Drieschova and Christian Bueger; References; Index.