Rediscoveries and Reformulations - Humanistic Methodologies for International Studies

Klappentext In this book Hayward Alker presents his principal methodological 'rediscoveries'. Zusammenfassung In this book Hayward Alker presents his principal methodological 'rediscoveries'and provides a rich set of 'humanistic' alternatives to the conventional scientific approaches within international studies! and social science more generally. He offers a reinterpretation of pre-modern! modern and post-modern thinkers from Aristotle to Connolly. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: voyages of rediscovery; Part I: Recovering Western Antiquity: 1. The dialectical logic of Thucydides' Melian Dialogue; 2. Aristotelian political methodologies; 3. Toynbee's Jesus: computational hermeneutics and the continuing presence of classical Mediterranean civilization; Part II.The Humanistic Science of the Modern Classics: 4. The humanistic moment in international studies: reflections on Machiavelli and Las Casas; 5. Can the end of power politics be part of the concepts with which its story is told? A Leibnizian reply; 6. Rescuing 'reason' from the 'rationalists': reading Vico, Marx and Weber as reflexive institutionalists; 7. An Orwellian Lasswell: humanistic scientist; Part III. Contemporary Humanistic Reformulations: 8. Fairy tales, tragedies and world histories: testable structuralist interpretations; 9. Beneath Tit-for-Tat: the contest of political economy fairy tales within SPD protocols; 10. Emancipatory empiricism: toward the renewal of empirical peace research; 11. The presumption of anarchy in world politics: on recovering the historicity of world society; 12. The return of practical reason to international theory; References; Index.

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• Authors: Hayward R. Alker, Hayward R. (Massachusetts Institute of Tech Alker, Hayward R. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Alker
• Assisted by: Thomas J. Biersteker (Editor), Steve Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.1996
• EAN: 9780521466950
• ISBN: 978-0-521-46695-0
• No. of pages: 488
• Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations; Cambridge Studies in Internati
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education