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Introduction: Sustainable Critique and the Lost Vocation of International Relations
The Lost Vocation
Critique and the Loss of Vocation
Sustainable Critique (1): The Problem of Reification
Sustainable Critique (2): Reification in International Theory
Sustainable Critique (3): Chastened Reason
Plan of the Work

Chapter One: "For We Born After:" The Challenge of Sustainable Critique
Between Comte and Catastrophe
Sustainable Critique as an Ethical Commitment: The Animus Habitandi
The Ethical Lacuna in IR: Three Examples
From Critique to Sustainable Critique
'Non-Identity' and Negative Dialectics
A Logical Impasse?

Chapter Two: Sustainable Critique and Critical IR Theory: Against Emancipation
A New Hope: Emancipation in Critical IR Theory
Post-National Liberalism and Pragmatism
The Adornian Alternative: Constellation and a Hermeneutic Turn
Concretizing the Constellation in IR: Allison's Essence of Decision
Toward Sustainable Critique: Concluding Thoughts

Chapter Three: The Realist Dilemma: Politics and the Limits of Theory
The 'Dutch Boy Syndrome': Morgenthau's Despairing Vocation
1. Morgenthau's Positive Dialectics
2. The Limits of Positive Dialectics: Reification, Despair, Backlash
3. From Reification to Sustainable Critique: Morgenthau's Missed Opportunity
Reification by "Ontological Smuggling": Waltz's Middle-Range Realism
Epistemological Lowballing: Wendt's 'Third Way'
Concluding Thoughts: Critical Realism and Sustainable Critique

Chapter Four: Communitarian IR Theory: "The Common Socius of us All"
IR-Liberalism: Two Traditions
Between Community and Individual
Plan of the Chapter
Metaphysical Communitarianism: Functionalism
1. The Fabian Impasse
2. The Mitranyan Breakthrough
The 'Wise Android': Deutsch's Cybernetic Turn
'Third-way' Communitarianism and the Primacy of Vision: Adler
Concluding Thoughts: From Communitarian to Individualist IR


Chapter Five: Individualist IR Theory: Disharmonious Cooperation
IR-Liberalism: From Communitarian to Individualist
Plan of the Chapter
Metaphysical Individualism: Ernst Haas and the Renewed March of Reason
1. Against Communitarianism: Neo-Functionalism and 'Managed Gesellschaft'
2. From Neo-functionalism to Liberal Nationalism: Taking up the Gauntlet of Reflexivity
Middle-Range Individualism: Keohane's Disharmonious Cooperation and 'Humility'
1. Complex Interdependence and the Middle-Range Turn
2. Liberal Institutionalism's Unsustainable Reflexivity
"Third-Way" Individualism: Multiple Paradigms and the 'Pirandello Problem'

Conclusion: Toward Sustainably Critical International Theory
The 'Hermeneutic Sphere': Toward a Sustainably Critical Research Program
Sympathetic Knowledge
A Working Example: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and IR
1. Building up the Hermeneutic 'Third Axis'
2. Constructing the Constellation: an Analytical Table of Contents
The Constellar Production of Compassion
Politics without Compassion: More of the Same?

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