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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 of visionary and original essays from scholars who have been profoundly influenced by Alker's approach to global studies. They build on the foundation he laid, demonstrating the practicality and usefulness of ethically grounded, theoretically informed and interdisciplinary research for producing knowledge. They show how substantive boundaries can be crossed and methodological rules rewritten in the search for a deeper, more contextualized approach to global politics.
This book will be of interest to researchers and students of international relations and global politics.
List of contents
1. Introduction 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 6. World Orders in Central Asia 7. Dialectics of Civilizations: A Cosmic Perspective 8. "Modern Order/Disorder": Notes for a Future Archeologist 9. Two Dilemmas of Democracy in the 21st 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
About the author
Renée Marlin-Bennett is Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of
Food Fights: International Regimes and the Politics of Agricultural Trade Disputes (published by Routledge) and
Knowledge Power: Intellectual Property, Information, and Privacy.
Summary
Examines Hayward Alker's contribution to the study of global IR and Politics.
