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Jarvis provides a collection of essays designed to survey the issues, debates, themes, and points of contention surrounding postmodernist and poststructuralist thought in international relations and the Third Debate. It serves as an introduction to these new theoretical mediums, and as a critique to highlight weaknesses, problems, or concerns that arise in the context of perspectivism, interpretivism, postfoundationalism, relativism, ethics, and knowledge. In the fullest sense, the essays are concerned with assessing what postmodern and poststructural theories can contribute to international relations and the study of world politics.
The approach of Jarvis and his contributors is exploratory as well as pedagogical. They anticipate that explorations into the conundrum of understanding and explaining world politics will help students and other researchers beginning their own such investigations to form some tentative questions and, perhaps, even answers of their own. Provocative reading for scholars, students, and other researchers involved with political science theory and international relations.
Table des matières
Preface
Introduction: Toward an Understanding of the Third Debate? by Darryl S. L. Jarvis
Living with Rupture: Postmodern Perspectives on International Events by Roland Bleiker
Realist "Ethics." International Relations and Postmodernism: Thinking beyond the Egoism-Anarchy Thematic by Jim George
Jim George's Discourse for International Relations: Critique and Reappraisal by Terry O'Callaghan
Richard Ashley's Discourse for International Relations by Roger Spegele
Postmodernism, Value Pluralism, and International Relations by George Crowder and Martin Griffiths
Reconstructing Theory in Global Politics: Beyond the Postmodern Challenge by Richard Mansbach and Yale Ferguson
Individualism, Identity, and Community in Globalizing Postmodern Society by P. Stuart Robinson
Confessions of a Pre-Postmodernist: Or Can An Old Timer Change Course? by James Rosenau
For Further Reading
Index
A propos de l'auteur
DARRYL S. L. JARVIS is Director of the Research Institute for International Risk and Lecturer in International Relations, The University of Sydney. Among Dr. Jarvis's earlier publications is International Relations and the Challenge of Postmodernism.
