TY - BOOK ID - 78626132 TI - Practice theory and international relations AU - Lechner, Silviya AU - Frost, Mervyn PY - 2018 SN - 9781108471107 1108471102 9781108457163 1108457169 9781108645775 1108586457 1108645771 1108593321 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - International relations KW - #SBIB:327.1H10 KW - Philosophy KW - Internationale betrekkingen: theorieën KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78626132 AB - Are social practices actions, or institutional frameworks of interaction structured by common rules? How do social practices such as signing a cheque differ from international practices such as signing a peace treaty? Traversing the fields of international relations (IR) and philosophy, this book defends an institutionalist conception of practices as part of a general practice theory indebted to Oakeshott, Wittgenstein and Hegel. The proposed practice theory has two core aspects: practice internalism and normative descriptivism. In developing a philosophical analysis of social practices that has a special relevance for international relations, Silviya Lechner and Mervyn Frost depart from Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of practice that dominates the current 'practice turn' in IR. The authors show that the contemporary global realm is constituted by two distinct macro practices - the practice of sovereign states and that of global rights. ER -