"Fully accessible to students and scholars alike, this engaging book introduces the constructivist approach to understanding world affairs. In a highly readable and witty way, it shows how people and their social relations are the basis for everything around us -- International Relations included."
Intending the World A Phenomenology of International Affairs by RalphPettman Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2008 by Academic Monographs ISBN-13: 978-0-522-85532-6, ISBN: 0-522-85532-6
"How we look at the world is informed mainly by our assumptions and the ways in which we rationalise them. Seldom do we relyandmdash;or allow ourselves to relyandmdash;on 'gut thinking' or intuition. Intending the World shows how rationalism, which is our primary approach in thinking about world affairs, is in crisis. By studying the world rationalistically, we objectify it and we look at it as detached from ourselves. But in doing so, ..."
World Politics Rationalism and Beyond by RalphPettman Hardcover, 195 Pages, Published 2001 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-333-80360-8, ISBN: 0-333-80360-4
"This book provides an overview of the entire discipline of world affairs in a way that makes immediate sense, i.e. systematic, cogent and comprehensive. It is also a critique of the limits that rationalism sets on how we know world affairs, showing how we might transcend these limits by augmenting rationalist research with non-rationalist techniques. It should appeal to anyone interest in why analysts so often seem to explain world affa ..."
Reason, Culture, Religion(1st Edition) The Metaphysics of World Politics (Culture and Religion in International Relations) by RalphPettman Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2004 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-6505-9, ISBN: 1-4039-6505-6
"In Reason, Culture, Religion, Ralph Pettman calls for wider recognition of, and greater commitment to, the "new" international relations, a discipline much more comprehensive and cosmopolitan than the "old." He first documents the way modernist analysts describe and explain world politics. Pettman then explores two ways in which the constraints on modernist thinking are transgressed: communalist ("pre-modernist") alternatives to the mod ..."
"This introductory text offers a comprehensive survey of interational political economy. Built around a selected set of non-academic readings, the book reviews the traditional analytic narratives."
Human Behavior and World Politics An Introduction to International Relations by RalphPettman Hardcover, Published 1976 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-312-39760-9, ISBN: 0-312-39760-7
"This collection of essays explores in general terms the nature of the moral claims common in global politics and the phenomenon of partisan cosmopolitanism in particular."
Commonsense Constructivism Or the Making of World Affairs (International Relations in a Constructed World) by PettmanRalph Hardcover, 247 Pages, Published 2000 by M.E. Sharpe ISBN-13: 978-0-7656-0577-1, ISBN: 0-7656-0577-5
Reason, Culture, Religion The Metaphysics of World Politics (Culture and Religion in International Relations (Hardcover)) by RalphPettman Paperback, 195 Pages, Published 2004 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-349-52866-0, ISBN: 1-349-52866-8
"Reason, Culture, Religion book provides a systematic overview of the study of world politics."
"This introductory text offers a comprehensive survey of interational political economy. Built around a selected set of non-academic readings, the book reviews the traditional analytic narratives."
Policy Studies on International Politics Biopolitics and International Values : Investigating Liberal Norms by RalphPettman Hardcover, 196 Pages, Published 1981 by Pergamon Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-08-026329-8, ISBN: 0-08-026329-1
Policy Studies on International Politics Biopolitics and International Values : Investigating Liberal Norms by RalphPettman Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 1981 by Pergamon Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-08-026328-1, ISBN: 0-08-026328-3
"Preface On August 17, 1979, I gave an address to the biopolitics panel of the
11th Congress of the International Political Science Association on the ..."
International politics balance of power, balance of productivity, balance of ideologies by RalphPettman Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 1991 by Longman ISBN-13: 978-0-582-86899-1, ISBN: 0-582-86899-8
"Pearce, Susan (1992) Museums, Objects and Collections: A Cultural Study (
Leicester University Press, Leicester). Pereira, Jose (ed.) (1976) Hindu Theology:
A Reader (Image Books, New York). Pettman, Jan Jindy (1996) Worlding Women
: A Feminist International Politics (Allen and Unwin, St. Leonards). Pettman,
Ralph (1993) Going for a Walk in the World, http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~ralph/ aikido.
html. ——— (1998) “Sex, Power, and the Grail of P ..."
Understanding World Affairs Beyond Rationalism by RalphPettman Hardcover, Published 2000 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-312-23693-9, ISBN: 0-312-23693-X
International Politics Balance of Power, Balance of Productivity, Balance of Ideologies by RalphPettman Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 1991 by Longman Cheshire ISBN-13: 978-1-55587-281-6, ISBN: 1-55587-281-6