This Theory Note focuses on the resurgent interest in relationalism in constructivist IR theory. I begin by contextualizing current efforts to move constructivism toward this theoretical register. In particular, I focus on the framing influence of Mustafa Emirbayer's “Manifesto for a Relational Sociology,” showing how key theoretical concerns articulated there have resonated with the constructivist critique of rationalist and structuralist explanatory approaches in IR. These cross-purposes, however, also signal that the lacunae identified by Emirbayer should be of interest to IR constructivists seeking to promote a relationalist research project. I argue that in particular Emirbayer's identification of a gap on normative implications has not received adequate attention in IR debates. In the second part, I discuss Honneth's recognition theoretic approach as promising for supplementing a normative register that satisfies the “process-ontological” proclivities of relationalism as understood by IR constructivists. In the final part, I outline by way of an example some of the meta-theoretical and methodological implications of this version of recognition theory, contrast it with contending arguments in current debates, and commend its potential.

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关系分析的规范语法：识别理论对理解投资者关系关系转向中缺点的贡献

该理论说明的重点是建构主义IR理论中对关系主义的兴起兴趣。首先，我将当前使建构主义迈向这一理论体系的努力具体化。我特别关注穆斯塔法·埃米尔巴耶尔（Mustafa Emirbayer）的“关系社会学宣言”的框架影响，表明那里阐明的关键理论问题与IR中的理性主义和结构主义解释方法的建构主义批评产生了共鸣。但是，这些交叉目的也表明，埃米尔巴耶尔（Emirbayer）所鉴定的缺陷对于寻求促进关系主义研究项目的IR建构主义者应该引起人们的兴趣。我认为，尤其是埃米尔巴耶尔（Emirbayer）对规范含义的差距的发现在国际关系辩论中并未得到足够的重视。在第二部分中，我将讨论Honneth' 认识论理论方法有望补充符合IR建构主义者所理解的关系主义“过程本体论”倾向的规范性登记册。在最后一部分中，我以举例的方式概述了这一版本的识别理论的一些元理论和方法论含义，将其与当前辩论中的争论进行了对比，并赞扬了其潜力。