UID:
edocfu_9961382288302883
Format:
1 online resource
Content:
The book is written for active learners ñ those keen on cutting their own path through the complex and at times hardly comprehensible world of THEORY in International Relations. To aid this process as much as possible, this book employs the didactical and methodical concept of integrating teaching and self-study. The criteria for structured learning about IR theory will be derived from an extensive discussion of the questions and problems of philosophy of science (Part 1). Theory of IR refers to the scientific study of IR and covers all of the following subtopics: the role and status of theory in the academic discipline of IR; the understanding of IR as a science and what a "scientific" theory is; the different assumptions upon which theory building in IR is based; the different types of theoretical constructions and models of explanations found at the heart of particular theories.
Note:
International Relations; Preface; Contents; Part I: International Relations' Theory; 1. History of -- theoretical thought on inter-state relations and the formation of "International Relations" as -- an academic discipline; Learning steps; Introduction; Step 1: International Relations from an -- historical perspective: Interstate theory and discipline formation; Step 2: The core subject of -- International Relations and International Relations theory; Step 3: Check your understanding: -- key aspects and review questions; Step 4: Self-study and consolidation; 2. International -- Relations as science. Learning stepsIntroduction; Step 1: Philosophy of science: the "theory -- behind theories" (meta-theory); Step 2: Positivism as an example for a philosophy of science; Step -- 3: Check your understanding: Key aspects and review questions; Step 4: Consolidation; 3. World -- views and the idea of science in the history of European philosophy; Learning steps; -- Introduction; Step 1: World views; Step 2: Scientific world views; Step 3: Self-study and -- consolidation; Step 4: Discussion (optional, for advanced students); 4. Didactics and method; -- Introduction; 1. Core question. 2. Ontological assumptions about actors and structures in -- international relations3. Epistemology and methodology; 4. General approach to IR as a science and -- to the practice of international politics; Overview of criteria for a structured learning -- process about theories of IR; Review questions; Consolidation; Part II: Theories of International -- Relations: Five Approaches; 5. Neorealist theory; Learning steps; Step 1: Background and core -- question; Step 2: Assumptions about actors and structure; Step 3: The neorealist explanation of -- international politics. Step 4: Check your understanding: key aspects and review questionsStep -- 5: Final self-study and consolidation; 6. Neoinstitutionalist theory; Learning steps; -- Introduction; Step 1: Neoinstitutionalist theory as "modified structural realism"; Step 2: The -- neoinstitutionalist explanation of international politics; Step 3: Check your understanding: key -- aspects and review questions; Step 4: Final self-study and consolidation; 7. New liberal -- theory; Learning steps; Introduction; Step 1: New liberalism as a "positive" IR theory: -- assumptions aboutactors and structures. Step 2: New liberalism as a general theoretical approach -- to IRStep 3: Check your understanding: key aspects and review questions; Step 4: Final -- self-study and consolidation; 8. World-systems analysis; Learning steps; Introduction; Step 1: -- World-systems analysis: ontological, epistemological and methodological claims; Step 2: -- World-systems analysis; Step 3: The modern world-system; Step 4: Check your understanding: key -- aspects and review questions; Step 5: Final self-study and consolidation; 9. Social constructivist -- theory; Learning steps; Introduction.
Language:
English
