Aporia:: A Critical Exploration of the Agent-Structure Problematique in International Relations Theory
Aporia:: A Critical Exploration of the Agent-Structure Problematique in International Relations Theory
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Aporia:国际关系理论中主体结构问题的批判性探索
DOI:
10.1177/1354066197003003004
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
R. Doty
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作者:
R. Doty
In this article I examine some significant problems found in current discussions of the `agent-structure' problem in international relations, suggesting that they result in serious gaps and silences. However, I also argue that important openings can be found that point to a more critical, if unsettling, way of conceptualizing agents and structures and the relations between them. Specifically, I interrogate the issues of practices, discourse, and contexts of meanings that are implicit in existing approaches and argue that taking seriously the indeterminancy and undecidability of practice has important implications for the agent-structure problem both in terms of ontological assumptions as well as concrete empirical research.