Contents // Acknowledgements page xiii // 1 Four sociologies of international politics 1 // Part I Social theory // 2 Scientific realism and social kinds 47 // 3 "Ideas all the way down?": on the constitution // of power and interest 92 // 4 Structure, agency, and culture 139 // Part II International politics // 5 The state and the problem of corporate agency 193 // 6 Three cultures of anarchy 246 // 7 Process and structural change 313 // 8 Conclusion 370 // Bibliography 379 // Index 420 // IX // Analytical Table of Contents // Acknowledgements page xiii // 1 Four sociologies of international politics 1 // The states systemic project 7 // State-centrism 8 // Systems theory 10 // Neorealism and its critics 15 // A map of structural theorizing 22 // Four sociologies 23 // Locating international theories 29 // Three interpretations 33 // Epistemology and the via media 38 // Plan of the book 40 // 2 Scientific realism and social kinds 47 // Scientific realism and theories of reference 51 // World independence 52 // Mature theories refer to the world 53 // Theories provide knowledge of unobservables 60 // The ultimate argument for realism 64 // The problem of social kinds 67 // On causation and constitution 77 // Causal theorizing 79 // Constitutive theorizing 83 // Toward a sociology of questions in international theory 88 // Conclusion 90 // x // Analytical Table of Contents // 3 "Ideas all the way down?": on the constitution of // power and interest 92 // The constitution of power
by interest 96 // Waltz’s explicit model: anarchy and the distribution of power 98 // Waltz’s implicit model: the distribution of interests 103 Toward a rump materialism I 109 // The constitution of interests by ideas 113 // The rationalist model of man 116 // Beyond the rationalist model 119 // Toward a rump materialism II 130 // Conclusion 135 // 4 Structure, agency, and culture 139 // Two levels of structure 145 // Micro-structure 147 // Macro-structure 150 // Culture as common and collective knowledge 157 // Two effects of structure 165 // Causal effects 167 // Constitutive effects 171 // Toward a synthetic view 178 // Culture as a self-fulfilling prophecy 184 // Conclusion 189 // 5 The state and the problem of corporate agency 193 // The essential state 198 // The state as referent object 199 // Defining the state 201 // "States are people too’’ 215 // On the ontological status of the state 215 // The structure of state agency 218 // Identities and interests 224 // The national interest 233 // Are states "Realists"? A note on self-interest 238 // Conclusion 243 // 6 Three cultures of anarchy 246 // Structure and roles under anarchy 251 // The Hobbesian culture 259 // Analytical Table of Contents // Enmity 260 // The logic of Hobbesian anarchy 264 // Three degrees of internalization 266 // The Lockean culture 279 // Rivalry 279 // The logic of Lockean anarchy 283 // Internalization and the Foucault effect 285 // The Kantian culture 297 // Friendship 298 // The logic of Kantian
anarchy 299 // Internalization 302 // Beyond the anarchy problematique? 307 // Conclusion 308 // 7 Process and structural change 313 // Two logics of identity formation 318 // Natural selection 321 // Cultural selection 324 // Collective identity and structural change 336 // Master variables 343 // Interdependence 344 // Common fate 349 // Homogeneity 353 // Self-restraint 357 // Discussion 363 // Conclusion 366 // Conclusion 370 // Bibliography 379 // Index 420 // xii