How to Do Things With Words

1.. HARD CASES 5. Legal Rights A. Legislation . . . We might therefore do well to consider how a philosophical judge might develop, in appropriate cases, theories of what legislative purpose and legal principles require. We shall find that he would construct these theories in the same manner as a philosophical referee would construct the character of a game. I have invented, for this purpose, a lawyer of superhuman skill, learning, patience and acumen, whom I shall call Hercules. I suppose that Hercules is a judge in some representative American jurisdiction. I assume that he accepts the main uncontroversial constitutive and regulative rules of the law in his jurisdiction. He accepts, that is, that statutes have the general power to create and extinguish legal rights, and that judges have the general duty to follow earlier decisions of their court or higher courts whose rationale, as l

Taking Rights Seriously

Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace

In this innovative approach to the practice of social science, Charles Ragin explores the use of fuzzy sets to bridge the divide between quantitative and qualitative methods. Paradoxically, the fuzzy set is a powerful tool because it replaces an unwieldy, "fuzzy" instrument—the variable, which establishes only the positions of cases relative to each other, with a precise one—degree of membership in a well-defined set. Ragin argues that fuzzy sets allow a far richer dialogue between ideas and evidence in social research than previously possible. They let quantitative researchers abandon "homogenizing assumptions" about cases and causes, they extend diversity-oriented research strategies, and they provide a powerful connection between theory and data analysis. Most important, fuzzy sets can be carefully tailored to fit evolving theoretical concepts, sharpening quantitative tools with in-depth knowledge gained through qualitative, case-oriented inquiry. This book will revolutionize research methods not only in sociology, political science, and anthropology but in any field of inquiry dealing with complex patterns of causation.

Fuzzy-Set Social Science

Introduction 1. On hospitality: rereading Kant's cosmopolitan doctrine 2. 'The right to have rights': Hannah Arendt and the contradictions of the nation-state 3. The law of peoples, distributive justice and migrations 4. Transformations of citizenship: the case of the European Union 5. Democratic iterations: the local, the national and the global Conclusion References Index.

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The rights of others : aliens, residents, and citizens

This article moves from deconstruction to reconstruction in research methodology+ It proposes pragmatism as a way to escape from epistemological dead- lock+ We first show that social scientists are mistaken in their hope to obtain war- ranted knowledge through traditional scientific methods+ We then show that pragmatism has grown from tacit commonsense to an explicit item on the agenda of the inter- national relations discipline+ We suggest that a coherent pragmatic approach consists of two elements: the recognition of knowledge generation as a social and discursive activity, and the orientation of research toward the generation of useful knowledge+ To offer a concrete example of what pragmatic methodology can look like, we pro- pose the research strategy of abduction+ We assess various forms of research design to further elucidate how pragmatic research works in practice+

On Acting and Knowing: How Pragmatism Can Advance International Relations Research and Methodology

This article is an exercise in theoretical reconstruction. As a point of departure, the apparent contradictions between globalization, fragmentation and sovereign statehood are analysed. Neither conventional International Relations theory nor the discourse about globalization seem able to account for these contradictions. As a conceptual alternative, the notion of `new medievalism' is introduced. For the present purpose, medievalism is defined as a system of overlapping authority and multiple loyalty, held together by a duality of competing universalistic claims. Thus, the Middle Ages were characterized by a highly fragmented and decentralized network of sociopolitical relationships, held together by the competing universalistic claims of the Empire and the Church. In an analogous way, the post-international world is characterized by a complicated web of societal identities, held together by the antagonistic organizational claims of the nation-state system and the transnational market economy. New medieva...

The Meaning of New Medievalism

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Global energy crunch: How different parts of the world would react to a peak oil scenario

The carbon curse: Are fuel rich countries doomed to high CO2 intensities?

Preface 1 International Relations: Still an American social science? Part 1: Developmental Pathways 2 International Relations Theory in France: Three generations of Parisian intellectual pride 3 International Relations Theory in Italy: Between academic parochialism and intellectual adjustment 4 International Relations Theory in the Nordic Countries: From fragmentation to multi-level research cooperation Part 2: Triangular Reasoning 5 Third Way or Via Media? The international society approach of the English school 6 Middle Ground or Halfway House? Social constructivism and the theory of European integration Part 3: Theoretical Reconstruction 7 The Meaning of New Medievalism: An exercise in theoretical reconstruction Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Jörg Friedrichs

Papers

On Acting and Knowing: How Pragmatism Can Advance International Relations Research and Methodology

The Meaning of New Medievalism

Global energy crunch: How different parts of the world would react to a peak oil scenario

The carbon curse: Are fuel rich countries doomed to high CO2 intensities?

European Approaches to International Relations Theory : A House with Many Mansions