“Constituent Peace”

Towards an Integrative Interpretation of International Relations

Abstract

This text presents the inaugural lecture of the academic year 2012/2013 at the Sophia University Institute (delivered on 18 October 2012). The author seeks a possible description of the concept of “constitutive peace”. It emerges as an operative concept, as a description of possibility always subject to failure, as the construction of a context which permits the ongoing activity of international politics amidst the daily struggles of building and conserving relations.