CONSTRUCTION TIME AGAIN: HISTORY IN CONSTRUCTIVIST IR SCHOLARSHIP

Written by

Halvard Leira

Research Director, Research Professor

Benjamin de Carvalho

Research Professor

Ed.

Summary:

In this article we seek to understand how succeeding generations of constructivists have invoked history to exact narratives of change within IR. We make the case that there is a move from a rst generation where history served primarily to undermine generalised and ahistorical mainstream arguments through a second generation where history was providing data to undercut speci c mainstream stories, replacing them with their own largely progressive stories, to a third generation where history is embraced for its own purpose, where history is seen as more open-ended and contingent. This has been a move from the general to the particular and from a meta-critique of the mainstream through accommodation with the mainstream, to a more localised opposition against the mainstream.

Published year: 2016
DOI: 10.3224/eris.v3i3.27346
Language: Engelsk
Pages: 99 - 111
Volume: 3
Booklet: 3
Journal: European review of international studies