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What is international relations?
As International Relations enters its second century as an academic discipline, leading expert Knud Erik Jørgensen provides a provocative assessment of its past, present and future. The result is a concise and challenging appraisal of the discipline, one which both celebrates its value and maps poss...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[S.l.] :
Bristol University Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- What is International Relations?
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Figures, Tables and Box
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 What is the Subject Matter?
- Introduction
- Domaine réservé
- Widening the subject matter: tous azimuts?
- Defined by its guiding research questions
- 1 What are the causes of war and the conditions of peace?
- 2 What is international society?
- 3 What is foreign policy?
- 4 What is power politics?
- 5 What is the international system?
- 6 What is IR theory?
- 7 What is the relationship between international politics and economics?
- 8 What is international organization?
- 9 What is the relationship between power and morality?
- 10 What is community?
- 11 What is the role of culture, gender and race in international relations?
- 12 What is a scientific discipline?
- Conclusion
- 2 What are the Human Sciences?
- Introduction
- IR as a social science
- With IR chez Humanités
- IR as a human science
- Conclusion
- 3 What is a Discipline?
- Introduction
- What is a discipline?
- The making of the IR discipline
- Trajectories and junctions
- Root causes of disciplinary growth
- The IR discipline and its subdisciplines
- Are there any attractive alternatives to discipline?
- Why discipline?
- Conclusion
- 4 What is Theory?
- Introduction
- The functions of theory
- Changing conceptions of theory
- Phase 1: 1919-1940
- Phase 2: 1940-1970
- Phase 3: 1970-1990
- Phase 4: 1990-2013
- Phase 5: 2013 to present
- Power politics among disciplines
- Conclusion
- 5 What is Disciplinary Diversity?
- Introduction
- Diversity as a threat
- Ever more diversity?
- Settling the dispute?
- A truly diverse discipline
- Conclusion
- 6 What is Community?
- Introduction
- The IR community during the interwar years
- The IR community during the Cold War years
- The 1940s to the 1960s
- Cold War II: 1970s and 1980s
- The IR community in a globalizing world
- Conclusion
- 7 Globalizing International Relations?
- Introduction
- What is local?
- IR going 'global'?
- Seven passages: beyond Eurocentrism and decentrism
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back Cover