On the Via Media: A response to the critics

Review of International Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 165-180

  Wendt, Alexander ^a  

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EID: 85016353690     PISSN: 02602105     EISSN: 14699044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210500001650     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. See, for example, Stuart Hall, ‘Re-thinking the “Base-and-Superstructure” Metaphor’, in J. Bloomfield (ed.), Class, Hegemony, and Party (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1977), pp. 43-71;
2. Paul Hirst, ‘Economic Classes and Politics’, in A. Hunt (ed.), Class and Class Structure (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1977), pp. 125-154;
3. and G.A. Cohen, Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defense (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978).
4. See Timothy Dant, ‘Fetishism and the Social Value of Objects’, The Sociological Review, 44 (1996), pp. 495-516.
5. John Ruggie, ‘Continuity and Transformation in the World Polity’, World Politics, 35 (1983), p. 285.
6. For those who would nevertheless persist down this path two recent contributions to the debate, both providing a boost to the constitutive, anti-Davidson, side are Joseph Owens, ‘Psychological Explanation and Causal Deviancy’, Synthese, 115 (1998), pp. 143-169.
7. and Daniel Hutto, ‘A Cause for Concern: Reasons, Causes and Explanations’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 59 (1999), pp. 381-401.
8. I have explored the differences and relationship between causal and constitutive questions more fully in ‘On Constitution and Causation in International Relations’, Review of International Studies, 24:5 Special Issue, (1998), pp. 101-117.
9. Though see Derek Edwards, Malcolm Ashmore, and Jonathan Potter, ‘Death and Furniture: The Rhetoric, Politics, and Theology of Bottom Line Arguments Against Relativism’, History of the Human Sciences, 8 (1995), pp. 25-49.
10. See Social Theory, p. 52.
11. Roxanne Lynn Doty, Imperial Encounters (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996).
12. See Hedley Bull, ‘The State's Positive Role in World Affairs’, Daedalus, 108 (1979), pp. 111-123.
13. Mlada Bukovansky, ‘The Altered State and the State of Nature: The French Revolution and International Politics’, Review of International Studies, 25:2 (1999), pp. 197-216, and Ideas and Power Politics: The American and French Revolutions in International Politics, forthcoming, especially ch. 3.
14. See William Antholis, ‘Liberal Democratic Theory and the Transformation of Sovereignty’, Ph.D. dissertation (1993), Yale University.
15. A point I first appreciated after reading Richard Ashley, ‘The Geopolitics of Geopolitical Space: Toward a Critical Social Theory of International Politics,’ Alternatives, 12 (1987), pp. 403-434, which talks about the sense in which realism and power politics instantiate a kind of ‘community’.
16. David Strang, ‘Anomaly and Commonplace in European Political Expansion: Realist and Institutional Accounts’, International Organization, 45 (1991), pp. 143-162;
17. Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg, ‘Why Africa's Weak States Persist: The Empirical and the Juridical in Statehood’, World Politics, 35 (1982), pp. 1-24.
18. Stephen Krasner, Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999).
19. Michael Barnett and Alexander Wendt, ‘The Systemic Sources of Dependent Militarization’, in Brian Job (ed.), The Insecurity Dilemma: National Security of Third World States, (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1992), pp. 97-119;
20. Alexander Wendt and Michael Barnett, ‘Dependent State Formation and Third World Militarization’, Review of International Studies, 19 (1993), pp. 321-347;
21. Alexander Wendt and Daniel Friedheim, ‘Hierarchy under Anarchy: Informal Empire and the East German State’, International Organization, 49 (1995), pp. 689-722. This work was based on part of my dissertation; I am less happy with it today than Krasner seems to be.
22. An excellent place to start would be Nicholas Onuf and Frank Klink, ‘Anarchy, Authority, Rule’, International Studies Quarterly, 33 (1989), pp. 149-174.
23. See, for example, Robert Jackson, ‘The Weight of Ideas in Decolonization: Normative Change in International Relations’, in Judith Goldstein and Robert Keohane (eds.), Ideas and Foreign Policy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 111-138;
24. and Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995).
25. A good point of entry into this debate is Bruce Bimber, ‘Three Faces of Technological Determinism’, in Merritt Roe Smith and Leo Marx (eds.), Does Technology Drive History? (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994), pp. 79-100.
26. Peter Katzenstein, Robert Keohane, and Stephen Krasner, ‘International Organization and the Study of World Politics’, International Organization, 52 (1998), pp. 645-686.