Advances our understanding of global and international relations through a ground-breaking philosophical analysis of social practices indebted to Oakeshott, Wittgenstein and Hegel.

Silviya Lechner is a visiting researcher at King's College London, Department of War Studies, where she was previously a lecturer. She specialises in international relations theory and philosophy, especially social and political philosophy and philosophy of action. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of International Political Theory, the Review of International Studies, International Studies Review, Oxford Research Encyclopaedia on International Studies, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy and The American Journal of Bioethics.

Introduction: mapping out the problem of practices; Part I. A Philosophical Analysis of Social Practices: 1. Practice theory: a preliminary view; 2. Bourdieu and the practice turn in international relations; 3. Practice theory: a basic philosophical template; Part II. Practices in International Relations: 4. Two core practices in international relations: a neo-Hegelian perspective; 5. The dialectic of global practices; 6. Practice theory, macro practices and the study of international relations.