Language, Agency, and Politics in a Constructed World Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Language, Nonfoundationalism, International Relations	3
2	Parsing Personal Identity: Self, Other, Agent	26
3	Constructivist International Relations Theory and the Semantics of Performative Language	50
4	Breaking the Silence: Language and Method in International Relations	66
5	Three Ways of Spilling Blood	87
6	Real Interdependence: Discursivity and Concursivity in International Politics	101
7	Criticism and Form: Speech Acts, Normativity, and the Postcolonial Gaze	121
8	The Difference that Language-Power Makes: Solving the Puzzle of the Suez Crisis	143
9	Conflicting Narratives, Conflicting Moralities: The United Nations and the Failure of Humanitarian Intervention	171
10	Language, Rules, and Order: The Westpolitik Debate of Adenauer and Schumacher	196
11	"Ce n'est pas une Guerre/This Is Not a War": The International Language and Practice of Political Violence	220
	Bibliography	247
	About the Editor and the Contributors	273
	Index	277