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Alker and IR : Global Studies in an Interconnected World.

International Relations have rarely been considered a synthesis of humanistic and social sciences approaches to understand the complex connections of a global, and globalizing, world. One of the few scholars to have accomplished this creative blend was Hayward R. Alker. Alker and IR presents a set o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marlin-Bennett, Renee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Francis, Taylor & amp ; 2011.
Colección:New international relations.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Alker and IR Global studies in an interconnected world; Copyright; Contents; About the authors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part 1: Foundations; 2 Human nature and world politics: ecce Hayward Alker's homo politicus as homo humanitatis; 3 On the nature of empirical evidence; 4 A fairy tale of science: playing with Hayward Alker; 5 Arguing gender and international relations: a dialectical-hermeneutical approach; Part 2: World (and Other) Orders; 6 World orders in Central Asia; 7 Dialectics of civilizations: a cosmic perspective.
  • 8 ''Modern order/disorder'': notes for a future archeologistPart 3: Alkerian Empirics; 9 Two dilemmas of democracy in the twenty-first century; 10 Alkerian reformulations of metaphor and IR; 11 Authentic methods for emancipatory peace research: Alker's legacy in relatus and pragmatic analysis; 12 ''Hi-tech hermeneutics'': combining rigor and alternative epistemologies of social science; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.