ABSTRACT In this article I explore the potential of a critical realist approach to the teaching of international law. Critical realist scholars have advanced a compelling account of the importance of paying attention – in designing educational curricula, delivering materials and classroom interactions – to the close relationship between agency and structure, a relationship that has also come to preoccupy international legal scholars. Recent academic work, especially that developed by critical international legal scholars, has revealed and insisted upon the structural dimension of the international legal order. According to these scholars, this dimension should be taken into account in order to explain and challenge some of the ways in which international law has historically constituted, and continues to constitute, our persistently violent and unequal material and social world at all levels, from international to local spaces, and from collective to individual subjectivities. If the aim is to generate another global order, and another international law, teaching international law today requires us to learn how to negotiate the structure and agency divide. The work of critical realists has the potential to help teachers of international law create a more emancipatory learning experience for their students in order to face this crucial task.

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（另一种）国际法的教学：批判现实主义和能动性和结构问题

摘要 在本文中，我探讨了批判现实主义方法在国际法教学中的潜力。批判现实主义学者提出了一个令人信服的解释，即在设计教育课程、提供材料和课堂互动时关注能动性和结构之间的密切关系的重要性，这种关系也引起了国际法学者的关注。最近的学术工作，特别是由批判性国际法学者开展的工作，揭示并坚持国际法律秩序的结构维度。这些学者认为，为了解释和挑战国际法在历史上构成并继续构成的某些方式，应考虑到这一方面，我们在各个层面持续暴力和不平等的物质和社会世界，从国际空间到地方空间，从集体到个人主体。如果目标是产生另一种全球秩序和另一种国际法，今天的国际法教学要求我们学习如何协商结构和机构鸿沟。批判现实主义者的工作有可能帮助国际法教师为学生创造更加解放的学习体验，以应对这一关键任务。