After International Relations: Critical Realism and the (Re)Construction of World Politics

by Heikki Patomäki

Overview

Includes cutting edge contemporary research

Engages with the central debates in IR such as truth, agent-structure problem, level of analysis problem, emancipation and new methodological procedure etc.

Author is a highly regarded scholar, who has published widely on IR, and is an important voice

Reveals how critical realism CR enables better research and ethnopolitical practices

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134518944
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/29/2003
Series:	Critical Realism: Interventions (Routledge Critical Realism)
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Patomäki, Heikki

Table of Contents

Introduction I. Overcoming International Relations 1. How it all Started? Can it End? A Genealogy of the International Problematic 2. Learning from Alker: From Quantitative Peace Research to Emancipatory Humanism 3. How to Tell Better Stories About World Politics II. Explicating a Critical Realist Methodology 4. Critical realist Ontology 5. Double Hermeneutics of Iconic Modeling 6. The Normative Logic of Explanatory Emancipation III. Visions of World Politics 7. Modeling Thucydides' Melos Episode 8. A Global Security Community 9. From Security to Emancipatory World Politics: Beyond 'Nordic Nostalgia' Epilogue