Madlibs: IR Theory edition

I wanted to call this post "[Verb]ing [International/National/World] [Relations/Interests/Politics]: [Subtitle involving {not more than three of the following: identity, argument, idea, power, ethics, politics, change, discourse, crisis, community, rhetoric, practice} or {a specific historical event}]" but it was way too long for the little box where you type the title of your post. One day, I'll make a chart like this one for how to title your work of constructivist IR scholarship.

As vaguely promised earlier, here is our current reading list. Snarkiness about titles aside, these books and articles are generally very thought-provoking and do an excellent job questioning many received understandings of international relations, both empirically and theoretically. While not directly pirate-related, they are helping us figure out where we fit in what Catherine calls the incestuous little constructivist family. Without further ado and in no particular order:

• Ordering International Politics: Identity, crisis, and representational force (Janice Bially Mattern)
• Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis (Jutta Weldes)
• Making Sense of International Relations Theory (Jennifer Sterling-Folker)
• "Twisting tongues and twisting arms: the power of political rhetoric" (Ronald R. Krebs and Patrick Thaddeus Jackson)
• Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, decolonization and humanitarian intervention (Neta Crawford)
• Security as Practice: Discourse analysis and the Bosnian War (Lene Hansen)
• Identity, Interest and Action: A cultural explanation of Sweden's intervention in the Thirty Years War (Erik Ringmar)
• The Power of Words in International Relations: Birth of an anti-whaling discourse (Charlotte Epstein)
• The Empire of Civilization: The evolution of an imperial idea (Brett Bowden)
• Stories, Identities, and Political Change (Charles Tilly)
• The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (Quentin Skinner)
• Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Benedict Anderson)
• The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts (Reinhart Koselleck)
• Wired for War: The robotics revolution and conflict in the 21st century (P.W. Singer)
• Harry Potter and International Relations (Daniel H. Nexon and Iver B. Neumann)
• "Anarchy is what states make of it" (Alexander Wendt)

We're definitely open to suggestions for further readings along these lines, if you have them, though time constraints being what they are, we of course cannot promise to read them.