The endeavour to explain and predict international affairs is getting harder since it is ever more widely accepted that heterogeneous and fluid actors are making international politics. Positivists of various types have dominated the discussion on knowledge creation in the discipline of International Relations (IR), but the increasing acceptance of the dynamic character of international politics has led to the support and use of constructivist, post-Western or feminist approaches. There has also been an uptick in methodological discussions on these critical, non-positivist approaches. This article contributes to these debates by offering the first steps towards a cognitive frames–based methodology for IR. With a pragmatist ontology as its foundation, the approach re-sets the focus of analysis to the rationality of the international actors. The article, offers an initial description, by relying on illustrative examples, of the creation, the reach, durability and the organisational structure of cognitive frames in the global arena.

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理性主义的实用主义辩护：国际关系中基于认知框架的方法论

解释和预测国际事务的努力变得越来越困难，因为越来越广泛地接受异质性和流动性的参与者正在制定国际政治。各种类型的实证主义者主导了国际关系 (IR) 学科中关于知识创造的讨论，但对国际政治动态特征的日益接受导致建构主义、后西方或女权主义方法的支持和使用。关于这些批判性的非实证方法的方法论讨论也有所增加。本文通过提供基于认知框架的 IR 方法论的第一步，为这些辩论做出贡献。该方法以实用主义本体论为基础，将分析的重点重新设置为国际行为体的合理性。