International relations in France : writing between discipline and state / / Henrik Breitenbauch

• Autore: Breitenbauch Henrik
• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, : Routledge, 2013; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st edition
• Descrizione fisica: xii, 232 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 327.072/044
• Soggetto topico: International relations - Research - France; International relations - Research - United States; International relations - Sociological aspects; International relations
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction and method -- Introduction -- The paradoxical case of French IR -- Inter/national: French versus transnational-American IR -- How the argument is construed -- Chapter overviews including methods and sources -- 2 Theory: legitimate forms of expression -- Towards a political sociology of legitimate forms of expression -- The meta-IR debate: proposal for a structure -- A heuristic model of variables in national IR disciplines -- Form and the domestic internal-external dynamic -- Archaeology: socially dependent knowledge production -- Domestic-external variables: contents and dynamics -- Moving from content to form -- Social science between science and literature, university and the public sphere -- Genre as sociological structure: contrastive rhetoric and composition studies -- Conclusion -- 3 Less Lego: French IR origins and arguments in a comparative perspective -- The differentiation of academic from societal discourses -- Discourses on the "international -- Institutional origins of French IR -- Media for academic knowledge production in French political science -- French versus Scandinavian integration into transnational-American IR -- Sixty years of IR research practice compared -- Justification of data sets, methods of selection -- Findings -- Conclusion -- 4 Close readings: dissertational patterns versus Lego science -- Theory: linguistic turn/turn to practice/epistemology -- Contrastive rhetoric -- Contrastive studies on the French language -- Characteristics of the "dissertation -- The dissertation versus the modern social science research article -- Examples of standardisation including style manuals -- Progressive Lego convergence: transnational-American examples -- Close reading of French research practice. ; Referencing through allusions -- Concluding sections -- Absent or weak thesis statements -- Thesis statements with qualifiers -- Identifications of theoretical ramifications -- Conclusion -- 5 Writing like a state -- High culture as state in practice -- The continuity of the French state as aristocratic Republicanism -- The reproduction of literary Cartesianism -- The political sociology of a genre -- 6 Conclusion: French IR and social science writing between state and discipline -- The troubled methodological origins of IR as a discipline -- Future perspectives -- Notes -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Why is the French International Relations (IR) discipline different from the transnational-American discipline? By analysing argument structures in research articles across time, this book shows how the discipline in France is caught between the American character of the discipline and the French state as regulator of legitimate forms of expression. Concretely, French research arguments are less explicit about what their propositions are and what academic discussions they draw on and add to than their transnational-American counterparts. Based on a comparative case study of French and American IR research from 1950 to 2011, the book is a major contribution to the meta-IR literature on global, regional and national traditions of IR. The challenge to the French discipline of whether and how to position itself in relation to the evolving American discipline is in many ways exemplary for other non-American national IR disciplines, and the choices as well as the structural conditions underlying the French case are relevant to all non-Western disciplines. The comparative analysis moreover reveals that the modern American discipline -- what is considered as recognisable social science -- takes shape only during the 1970s. The book thus offers new knowledge about the discipline's international development as such. Both case and methodology are interesting to larger audiences outside IR, in the history and sociology of social science, contrastive rhetoric, as well as French and cultural studies.
• Titolo autorizzato: International relations in France
• ISBN: 1-138-28944-2; 0-203-40316-9; 1-135-04429-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828644403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II