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power with one another but rather are woven together in relations of interdependence. World trade is an example.
13. Giovanni Sartori, Comparative Constitutional Engineering: An Inquiry into Structures, Incentives and Outcomes (Basingstoke, UK: MacMillan and New York University Press, 1994), 70.
14. Social constructivism, of course, comes in a range of shapes and sizes; accordingly, my brief description here could be extended to include further nuance and clarification.
15. Emanuel Adler, “Constructivism and International Relations,” in Handbook of International Relations, ed. Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth A. Simmons (London: Sage, 2002), 95–118. One major security issue during the 1980s in my native country was the question whether Swedish territorial waters were being violated by Soviet submarines. For younger researchers at the time, this offered a prime case for constructivist conceptual analysis. My own query on the subject—as to whether there actually were any Soviet submarines in the Swedish archipelago—simply revealed the inability of an older professor to keep up with developments in the social sciences, which were then moving beyond the narrow framework of empiricism.
16. Ian Shapiro, “Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Politics, or What’s Wrong with Political Science and What to Do about It,” Political Theory 30 (2002): 596–619.
17. Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson Democracy and Disagreement: Why Moral Conflict Cannot Be Avoided in Politics, and What Should Be Done about It (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), 5.
18. Herbert Tingsten, “De politiska ideologierna i vetenskaplig debatt” [“Political Ideologies in Scientific Debate”], in Idékritik [Critique of Ideas] (Stockholm: Bonnier, 1941). Outside seminar-room walls, the critique of ideas should be carried out with some caution. At a doctoral dinner in my department, for example, a family father described the gloom that had spread at his family’s Sunday dinners ever since the young man of the family had enrolled in the doctoral program in political science—and as a result had developed the bad habit of interrupting family small talk with the question “What’s your evidence for that?”
19. Brian Barry, Political Argument (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965), xvii, 2.
20. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), 41–42.