Agents, Structures and International Relations - Politics As Ontology

Informationen zum Autor Colin Wight is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield. Klappentext A comprehensive 2006 analysis of the agent-structure problem in international relations and social theory. Zusammenfassung This 2006 book analyses the agent-structure problem and argues there are many gaps in IR theory that can only be understood through ontology - the metaphysical study of existence and reality. He integrates international relations theory with social theory! stressing the problem is an issue of concern to the wider human sciences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. IR: a science without positivism?; 2. The agent-structure problem: from social theory to IR theory; 3. The agent-structure problem in IR theory; 4. Structure; 5. Agency; 6. The agent-structure problem: epistemology; 7. The agent-structure problem: methodology; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Wight Colin, Colin Wight, Colin (University of Sheffield) Wight
• Assisted by: Steve Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2006
• EAN: 9780521857529
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85752-9
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Internati
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education