1st Edition
International Relations as Politics among People Hermeneutic Encounters and Global Governance
1. Introducing Politics among People
Why politics among people?
Beyond anarchy – meaningful politics in strange places
Aims of the book: hermeneutic situations and how to find them
The horizon of Politics among People: knowledge and power
Performances and topoi
Outline of the book
2. Hermeneutic approaches to meaning
Making sense
Delineating hermeneutic performances
Competent performances
Performativity
Being
Horizons, memory and the politics of performance
Meaning and (neuro-)science
Knowledge and the path to knowing
3. The topoi of interpretive research
Hermeneutic research
Topoi
Criteria of validity in interpretive research
Proceeding by comparison and sequence
Finding topoi
4. The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
The case: bringing UNCLOS as politics among people to IR
Outline of the case study: data and the process of analysis
Comte’s positivism
Humanity: making the Law of the Sea
Objectivity: delimiting the continental shelf
Expertocracy: who gets to participate in the endless re-making of the Law of the Sea?
Summary
Conclusion
5. Humanity and German Intervention in Kosovo 1999
The case: intervention and the concern for humanity
Outline of the case study: data and the process of analysis
The topos of ‘Humanity’
From pacifism to intervention
Founding the Greens
Green Foreign Policy during the 1990s
The Responsibility to Intervene
Conclusion
6. Horizons of politics
How to deal with politics among people?
Hermeneutic encounters
Hermeneutic methodology
The cases
Reflection
Towards new horizons
Biography
Hannes Hansen-Magnusson is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University, UK. His research is located in international relations with particular interests in global governance, focusing on actors and practices at the transnational level and the role of culture in international politics.
