This book provides a distinctive and rich conception of methodology within international studies. From a rereading of the works of leading Western thinkers about international studies, Hayward Alker rediscovers a 'neo-Classical' conception of international relations which is both humanistic and scientific. He draws on the work of classical authors such as Aristotle and Thucydides; modern writers like Machiavelli, Vico, Marx, Weber, Deutsch and Bull; and post-modern writers like Havel, Connolly and Toulmin. The central ...
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This book provides a distinctive and rich conception of methodology within international studies. From a rereading of the works of leading Western thinkers about international studies, Hayward Alker rediscovers a 'neo-Classical' conception of international relations which is both humanistic and scientific. He draws on the work of classical authors such as Aristotle and Thucydides; modern writers like Machiavelli, Vico, Marx, Weber, Deutsch and Bull; and post-modern writers like Havel, Connolly and Toulmin. The central challenge addressed is how to integrate 'positivist' or 'falsificationist' research styles within humanistic or interpretive ones. The author argues that appropriate, philosophically informed reformulations of conventional statistical and game-theoretic analyses are possible, and describes a number of humanistic methodologies for international relations, including argumentation analysis, narrative modeling, computational models of political understanding and reconstructive analysis.
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New. Trade paperback (US). 488 p. Cambridge Studies in International Relations . 8 Tables, unspecified; 26 Line drawings, unspecified. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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Minor rubbing. Rubberstamp to reverse of title-page. VG. 23x15cm, xviii, 464 pp, Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations: 41. Contents: Recovering Western Antiquity: The dialectical logic of Thucydides' Melian Dialogue; Aristotelian political methodologies; Toynbee's Jesus: computational hermeneutics and the continuing presence of classical Mediterranean civilization; The Humanistic Science of the Modern Classics: The humanistic moment in international studies: reflections on Machiavelli and Las Casas; Can the end of power politics be part of the concepts with which its story is told? A Leibnizian reply; Rescuing ' reason' from the 'rationalists': reading Vico, Marx and Weber as reflexive institutionalists; An Orwellian Lasswell; Contemporary Humanistic Reformulations: Fairy tales, tragedies and world histories: Testable structuralist interpretations; Beneath Tit-for-Tat: the contest of political economy fairy tales within SPD protocols; Emancipatory empiricism: toward the renewal of empirical peace research; The presumption of anarchy in world politics: On recovering the historicity of world society; The return of practical reason to international theory. ["., . Hayward Alker rediscovers a 'neo-Classical' conception of international relations which is both humanistic and scientific., . The central challenge addressed is how to integrate 'positivist' or 'falsificationist' research styles within humanist or interpretive ones. The author argues that appropriate, philosophically informed reformulations of conventional statistical and game-theoretic analyses are possible, and describes a number of humanistic methodologies for international relations., . "-
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Minor rubbing. VG. 24x15cm, xviii, 464 pp., Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations, 41. "This book provides a distinctive and rich conception of methodology within international studies. From a rereading of the works of leading Western thinkers about international studies, Hayward Alker rediscovers a 'neo-Classical' conception of international relations which is both humanistic and scientific. He draws on the work of classical authors such as Aristotle and Thucydides; modern writers like Machiavelli, Vico, Marx, Weber, Deutsch and Bull; and post-modern writers like Havel, Connolly and Toulmin. The central challenge addressed is how to integrate 'positivist' or 'falsificationist' research styles within humanistic or interpretive ones. The author argues that appropriate, philosophically informed reformulations of conventional statistical and game-theoretic analyses are possible, and describes a number of humanistic methodologies for international relations, including argumentation analysis, narrative modeling, computational models of political understanding and reconstructive analysis"-publisher's description.
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Volume 41. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 800grams, ISBN: 9780521466950.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Contains: Line drawings, Tables. Cambridge Studies in International Relations . 26 b/w illus. 8 tables. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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