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Discourses of global politics : a critical (re)introduction to international relations / Jim George.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical perspectives on world politicsPublisher: Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994Description: xi, 266 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1555874444
  • 9781555874445
  • 1555874460
  • 9781555874469
  • 0333618688
  • 9780333618684
  • 0333616855
  • 9780333616857
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327 20
LOC classification:
  • JX1391 .G467 1994
  • JZ1305 .G467 1994
Contents:
Preface -- 1. (Re)Introducing the Theory as Practice of International Relations -- 2. Discourses of Modernity: Toward the Positivist Framing of Contemporary Social Theory and International Relations -- 3. The Making of International Relations: From Modernist Tradition to Cold War Discipline -- 4. The Positivist-Realist Phase: Morgenthau, Behavioralism, and the Quest for Certainty -- 5. The Backward Discipline Revisited: The Closed World of Neo-Realism -- 6. Critical Social Theory: Thinking Beyond the "Orthodox Consensus" -- 7. Thinking Beyond International Relations: The Critical Theory Challenge -- 8. Thinking Beyond International Relations: Postmodernism - Reconceptualizing Theory as Practice -- 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book and the Author -- Other Books in the Series.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index.

Preface -- 1. (Re)Introducing the Theory as Practice of International Relations -- 2. Discourses of Modernity: Toward the Positivist Framing of Contemporary Social Theory and International Relations -- 3. The Making of International Relations: From Modernist Tradition to Cold War Discipline -- 4. The Positivist-Realist Phase: Morgenthau, Behavioralism, and the Quest for Certainty -- 5. The Backward Discipline Revisited: The Closed World of Neo-Realism -- 6. Critical Social Theory: Thinking Beyond the "Orthodox Consensus" -- 7. Thinking Beyond International Relations: The Critical Theory Challenge -- 8. Thinking Beyond International Relations: Postmodernism - Reconceptualizing Theory as Practice -- 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book and the Author -- Other Books in the Series.

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