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"[By] refusing to engage in any explicit theorizing of their own, Adler and Pouliot cannot support the claim which their research program presupposes." - Erik Ringmar
In his article in the March 2014 issue of International Theory (IT), Erik Ringmar controversially critiques Emanuel Adler and Vincent Pouliot's invitation in a previous IT paper 'to students of International Relations to approach world politics through the lens of its manifold practices’.
Ringmar writes; "Accompanying Adler and Pouliot’s manifesto is an edited volume, International Practices, intended to demonstrate the relevance of practices for our analyses of international politics ... Uniformly insightful and occasionally brilliant though these chapters are, there is nothing truly new about this research. After all, practices of one kind or another are what scholars of international relations always have studied."
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