The Implications and Imperfections of Practice

Practice theory and the study of diplomacy: A research agenda

“…• • How the field of international security has transformed since the end of the Cold War through regional politics and practices (Adler and Greve, 2009;Gheciu, 2008;Williams, 2007); • • How peacekeeping practices explain the success or failure of international interventions (Autesserre, 2014); • • How culturally-specific practices are transforming the public in global governance (Best and Gheciu, 2014;also Neumann and Sending, 2010); • • How international orders evolve through changing liberal practices (Adler, 2013;Dunne and Flockhart, 2013;Koivisto and Dunne, 2010); • • How the action of networks of lawyers and jurists foster a European transnational field (Madsen, 2014;Vauchez, 2008); • • How global public policies are shaped through practices of 'epistemic arbitrage' between professional networks (Seabrooke, 2014); • • How business practices create global networks of finance (Kim and Sharman, 2014;McKeen-Edwards and Porter, 2013); • • How terrorism becomes a salient threat in and through national political struggles (Neal, 2012); • • How individual rights practices shape the form of international institutions (Ainley, 2010;Karp, 2013;Reus-Smit, 2013); • • How the hybrid practices of multinational corporations shape both the development and the security of the post-colonial world (Hönke, 2013); • • How border-control practices generate the infrastructures of international security (Bigo, 2002;Côté-Boucher et al, 2014); • • As well as how practices such as carbon pricing transform climate change politics (Lederer, 2012).…”