Making sense, making worlds: constructivism in social theory and international relations

Nicholas Onuf is a leading scholar in international relations and introduced constructivism to international relations, coining the term constructivism in his book World of Our Making (1989). He was featured as one of twelve scholars featured in Iver B. Neumann and Ole Wæver, eds., The Future of International Relations: Masters in the Making? (1996); and featured in Martin Griffiths, Steven C. Roach and M. Scott Solomon, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations, 2nd ed. (2009).This powerful collection of essays clarifies Onuf's approach to international

Part I. Constructivism . - 1. Constructivism: A User's Manual 3. - 2. Worlds of Our Making 21. - 3. Fitting Metaphors 40. - Part II. The Metaphysics of World-Making . - 4. Reading Aristotle 53. - 5. Parsing Personal Identity 75. - 6. Structure, What Structure? 96. - Part III. The Art of World-Making . - 7. Speaking of Policy 115. - 8. Rules in Practice 131. - 9. Friendship and Hospitality 141. - Part IV. Making Sense of Modernity. - 10. Institutions, Intentions and International Relations 163. - 11. Civil Society, Global Governance 182. - 12. Alternative Visions 195