On Rules, Politics and Knowledge: Friedrich Kratochwil, International Relations, and Domestic Affairs

307 Pages·2010·1.48 MB·English

by  Oliver Kessler

On Rules, Politics and
Knowledge
Friedrich Kratochwil, International
Relations and Domestic Affairs
Edited by
Oliver Kessler, Rodney Bruce Hall and
Cecelia Lynch, Nicholas Onuf
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On Rules, Politics and
Knowledge
Friedrich Kratochwil, International
Relations and Domestic Affairs
Edited by
Oliver Kessler
Associate Professor for Political Science, Bielefeld University
Rodney Bruce Hall
University Lecturer in International Political Economy, Department of International
Development, University of Oxford, UK
Cecelia Lynch
Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Global Peace and
Conflict Studies, University of California, Irvine, USA
Nicholas Onuf
Professor Emeritus, Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida
International University, USA
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1. International relations—Philosophy. 2. International law—Philosophy.
3. Kratochwil, Friedrich V. I. Kessler, Oliver, 1973–
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Contents
Foreword ix
Richard Falk
Acknowledgments xiv
List of Contributors xv
Introduction 1
Oliver Kessler, Rodney Bruce Hall, Cecelia Lynch and
Nicholas Onuf
Part I Thinking with Kratochwil: Speech, Reason and
Knowledge
1 De gustibus (valoribus) est disputandum:
Friedrich Kratochwil contra Realpolitik without Politics,
Theory without Reflexivity, Science without Judgment 23
Stefano Guzzini
2 From Logic to Logics: The Relationship of Particular Cases
to General Patterns in Social Life 37
James W. Davis
3 Game Theory and Reciprocity: Toward a Social Perspective 50
Deborah Welch Larson
4 ‘Trust me, I promise!’: Kratochwil’s Contributions toward the
Explanation of the Structure of Normative Social Relations 60
Rodney Bruce Hall
5 What Do we Mean When we Say that Substance Matters? 74
Jörg Friedrichs
6 On Norms, Communication and the Problem of Practice 84
Oliver Kessler
7 Social Science: A Social or Scientific Project? 102
Richard Ned Lebow
Part II Arguing with Kratochwil: Rules, Norms and Ethics
8 Rules in Practice 115
Nicholas Onuf
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viii Contents
9 Constructivist Historicism in the Light of Thucydides’
Aesthetics of Power 127
Michael Loriaux
10 Debating Moral Agency and International Law in an
NGO World 145
Cecelia Lynch
11 Cynical Rascals or Conscientious Objectors? Interpreting
Noncompliance with International Norms 158
Mlada Bukovansky
12 Rules, Norms, Revisions? 178
Nicholas Rengger
Part III Building on Kratochwil: Persuasion, Order and Change
13 Norms, Persuasion and the New German Idealism in IR 191
Jens Steffek
14 Normative Baggage in International Encounters:
Contestation all the Way 202
Antje Wiener
15 Rules and Norms in a Post-Western World 213
Chris Brown
16 Understanding Change in International Politics, Again
and Again and Again 226
Rey Koslowski
17 The “Inter” according to Fritz: Rethinking IR’s Proverbial
Toolbox 242
Mathias Albert and Yosef Lapid
Friedrich Kratochwil’s Published Work, 1971–2010 252
References 258
Index 278
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Foreword
After several years on the faculty at Princeton I remember Fritz
Kratochwil most vividly as the first truly intimidating graduate student
I had encountered. The phenomenon of intimidation is subtle and
elusive. It was particularly so in this instance as Fritz was invariably
gracious and receptive to discussion. The intimidation came from his
astounding breadth and depth of knowledge, and a super-sophisticated
style of articulating his viewpoint as to make it rarely immediately
comprehensible, yet always understandable and illuminating if the
effort was made. When I finally managed to get beyond these barriers
I experienced what is for every dedicated member of the academy a peak
experience: The thrill of learning from someone nominally categorized
as a student. Adopting a Kratochwilian outlook, the student/teacher lan-
guage game disguised in our exchange something more f undamental,
an existential role reversal. And so I can, with this major qualification,
proudly, claim Fritz as my PhD student. It should be obvious that the
reality of our pedagogic relationship was far more horizontal, that is,
egalitarian, than vertical, that is, hierarchical, and to the extent verti-
cal that it was I who occupied the subordinate status. Perhaps, more
remarkably, in my latter 40 or so years of teaching, despite many tal-
ented and wonderful PhD students, I never again experienced quite the
awe that Fritz’s intellectual presence generated. Beyond this, it was not
just a personal feeling of intimidation, but one shared with several col-
leagues, what might be best described as a rare instance of “institutional
awe,” not a common emotion at a place like Princeton.
And perhaps, as astonishing, Fritz’s intellectual identity seemed firmly
and fully established from the moment he undertook doctoral studies.
Indeed it seemed so deeply inscribed in his intellectual personae that
I wondered whether he was not so marked at birth. Even when most
of his fellow graduate students were floundering about in search of an
identity, Fritz was already a confirmed Humean, as distinct from being
a Hobbesian, preoccupied with the actualities of order in world politics
that at the time dominated the academic landscape. There was no doubt
that Fritz was disenchanted with the several varieties of “realists” vying
for adherents. He definitely went his own way, which struck me at the
time as very much of his own making, neither realist, nor liberal, nor
Marxist, nor utopian.
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