Tuesday, February 15, 2022

New Issue: International Theory

The latest issue of International Theory (Vol. 14, no. 1, March 2022) is out. Contents include:
  • Articles
    • Sarah Teo, Toward a differentiation-based framework for middle power behavior
    • Lee McConnell, Opportunity and impasse: social change and the limits of international legal strategy
    • Sinan Chu, Whither Chinese IR? The Sinocentric subject and the paradox of Tianxia-ism
    • Quentin Bruneau, Converging paths: bounded rationality, practice theory and the study of change in historical international relations
  • Book Symposium: Alexander Wendt, Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology
    • Toni Erskine, Stefano Guzzini, & David A. Welch, Preface
    • Alexander Wendt, Why IR scholars should care about quantum theory, part I: burdens of proof and uncomfortable facts
    • Andrew H. Kydd, Our place in the universe: Alexander Wendt and quantum mechanics
    • Fred Chernoff, ‘Truth’, ‘justice’, and the American wave… function: comments on Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science
    • Sergei Prozorov, Otherwise than quantum
    • Friedrich Kratochwil, The strange fate of the morphed ‘rump materialism’: a comment on the vagaries of social science as seen through Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science
    • Kimberly Hutchings, Empire and insurgency: the politics of truth in Alexander Wendt's Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology
    • Alexander Wendt, Why IR scholars should care about quantum theory, part II: critics in the PITs