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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462098203321

Autore

Marlin-Bennett ReneĢe <1959->

Titolo

Alker and IR [[electronic resource] ] : Global Studies in an Interconnected World

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012

ISBN

0-203-80206-3

1-136-62420-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

New International Relations

Disciplina

327.101

Soggetti

Alker, Hayward R

International relations - Philosophy

International relations -- Philosophy

Law, Politics & Government

International Relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Alker and IR Global studies in an interconnected world; Copyright; Contents; About the authors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part 1: Foundations; 2 Human nature and world politics: ecce Hayward Alker's homo politicus as homo humanitatis; 3 On the nature of empirical evidence; 4 A fairy tale of science: playing with Hayward Alker; 5 Arguing gender and international relations: a dialectical-hermeneutical approach; Part 2: World (and Other) Orders; 6 World orders in Central Asia; 7 Dialectics of civilizations: a cosmic perspective

8 ''Modern order/disorder'': notes for a future archeologistPart 3: Alkerian Empirics; 9 Two dilemmas of democracy in the twenty-first century; 10 Alkerian reformulations of metaphor and IR; 11 Authentic methods for emancipatory peace research: Alker's legacy in relatus and pragmatic analysis; 12 ''Hi-tech hermeneutics'': combining rigor and alternative epistemologies of social science; Afterword; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

International Relations have rarely been considered a synthesis of humanistic and social sciences approaches to understand the complex



connections of a global, and globalizing, world. One of the few scholars to have accomplished this creative blend was Hayward R. Alker.Alker and IR presents a set of visionary and original essays from scholars who have been profoundly influenced by Alker's approach to global studies. They build on the foundation he laid, demonstrating the practicality and usefulness of ethically grounded, theoretically informed and interdisciplinary research