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Agents, Structures and International Relations: Politics as Ontology

Agents, Structures and International Relations: Politics as Ontology

Wight, Colin
Smith, Steve
Colin, Wight

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Book 101

International Relations

ISBN10: 052185752X
ISBN13: 9780521857529
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 12 2006
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.63
Height: 1.07 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.42
Language: English
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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