In recent years, IR theorists have celebrated a turn to pragmatism. Selectively drawing upon the vocabulary of pragmatists - habits and practices - or methodological attitudes about eschewing metaphysical debates - analytical eclectism - the IR scholarship has largely overlooked how these individual theoretical components are linked up in a larger normative project. In this paper, we argue if pragmatism is to contribute something novel to the discipline, then it is a particular political project: establishing the conditions of a global democratic public.
