The logic of habit in International Relations

Hopf, Ted

doi:10.1177/1354066110363502

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“…More recently, constructivists have moved beyond a dichotomy between the logic of consequences and the logic of appropriateness to demonstrate the operation of at least two other behavioral logics (or reasons for action) in world politics: the logic of habit (Hopf 2010) and the logic of practice (Adler and Pouliot 2011). While both are important contributions to understanding agency in world politics, they are of less relevance for understanding how actors that perceive threats to their interests and values from ongoing developments in the cyber domain are likely to react, and for that reason I largely leave them aside in the remainder of this article.…”

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Cyber Futures and the Justice Motive: Avoiding Pyrrhic Victory

Raymond¹

2018

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Cyber Futures and the Justice Motive: Avoiding Pyrrhic Victory

Raymond¹

2018

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“…As we will show, at the heart of many of the problems with current practice theory is the inability to adequately abstract, and thus conceptualise, 'structure' (or whatever we would call underlying social context) due to a shallow or surface ontology and an inadequate understanding of the role of 'philosophical' arguments about social ontology. Pouliot (2007Pouliot ( , 2008, Emanual Adler (Adler andPouliot 2011) andTed Hopf (2010) provide good examples of an inconsistent approach to Bourdieu and to the question of structure in particular. Most of the time this work maintains the kind of 'practice constructivist' ontology that places its emphasis on social practices and background knowledge.…”

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The limits of practice: why realism can complement IR’s practice turn

Joseph

Kurki

2017

Int. Theory

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This paper argues that the current calls for a practice turn in IR are, while positive in many respects, are problematic and potentially limiting because they are premised on: a confused understanding of the role of philosophy and realist philosophy in particular and a restricted view of the role of sociological investigation. This arises from the problematic tendency of to lapse into advocacy of an anti-realist philosophical and sociological imagination. We suggest that the problems that practice theorists point to should lead not to knee-jerk anti-realism but rather can motivate a reinvigorated conversation with realism. This entails revisiting the role of philosophy, realism and sociology in the study of practices. We argue that far from being antithetical to practice theory, a reconsideration of realist philosophy helps make sense of the role of practice and provides those advocating practice theory with better tools to deal with the challenges which motivated the development of these theoretical stances. Reconsidering realism entails, however, a reconsideration of a wider social ontology within which practice takes place, and openness to the role of philosophical and theoretical abstractions in teasing out the role of practice.

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“…see Wegner and Bargh, 1998: 459-462;Hopf, 2010), but several scholars warn against overly mechanical understandings of habits, devoid of any meaning and understanding. They assert that, although unreflective, dispositional, and iterative, habits also involve meaning, understanding, and knowledge (practical).…”

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Showing the path to path dependence: the habitual path

Sarıgil

2014

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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This article investigates the conceptual and theoretical implications of the logic of habit for the path-dependence approach. In the existing literature, we see two different logics of action associated with two distinct models of path dependence: the logic of consequences (instrumental rationality) is linked with utilitarian paths (i.e. increasing returns) and the logic of appropriateness (normative rationality) constitutes normative paths (normative lock-in). However, this study suggests that despite its popularity, the path-dependence approach remains underspecified owing to its exclusion or neglect of the logic of habit, which constitutes a distinct mechanism of reproduction or self-reinforcement in the institutional world. This article, therefore, introduces the notion of the 'habitual path' as a different model of path dependence. Although the idea of the habitual path is complementary with the existing models, owing to its distinctive notions of agency and mechanisms of path reproduction, it offers a different interpretation of continuity or regularity. Thus, by enriching the path-dependence approach, the notion of the habitual path would contribute to our comprehension of continuities and discontinuities in the political world.

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The logic of habit in International Relations

Cited by 349 publications

References 72 publications

Cyber Futures and the Justice Motive: Avoiding Pyrrhic Victory

Cyber Futures and the Justice Motive: Avoiding Pyrrhic Victory

The limits of practice: why realism can complement IR’s practice turn

Showing the path to path dependence: the habitual path

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