UID:
edocfu_9959227071102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (280 p.)
ISBN:
1-136-07458-9
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1-283-96959-9
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0-203-62025-9
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1-136-07450-3
Inhalt:
Theory and History in International Relations is an eloquent plea to scholars of global politics to turn away from the ""manufacture"" of data and return to a systematic study of history as a basic for theory. While the modest use of empiricism will always be important, Puchala rejects the logical positivism of the so-called ""scientific revolution"" in the field in favor of a more complex, even intuitive, vision of global politics. He addresses the potential uses of history in studying some of the major debates of our time-the Cold War as a struggle between empires, the collision of civilizat
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1 --2 International Relations Theory in Perspective 14 --3 The Pragmatics of International History 33 --4 International Theory and Cyclical History 51 --5 The Tragedy of War and the Search for Meaning -- in International History 73 --6 The Dancing Dinosaurs of the Cold War 94 --7 International Encounters of Another Kind 119 --8 Colonization and Culture in the Ancient World 143 --9 Myth, History, and Morality 164 --10 Liberal Theory and Linear History 189 --11 Beyond the Divided Discipline 214.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-94536-4
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-94535-6
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203620250
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