
Evaluating Progress in International Relations
Description
Alles über E-Books | Antworten auf Fragen rund um E-Books, Kopierschutz und Dateiformate finden Sie in unserem Info- & Hilfebereich.
In its second part, the volume applies this range of perspectives to the research program on the democratic peace. It shows what we gain by accommodating and enabling dialogue among the full range of epistemological approaches. The contributors elaborate and defend the epistemological position of sociable pluralism as one that seeks to build bridges between soft positivism, critical theory, and critical realism. The underlying idea is that if the differences between the various approaches used by different communities of researchers can be understood more clearly, this will facilitate meaningful cross-cutting communication, dialogue, and debate and thereby enable us to address real-world problems more effectively.
This timely and original work will be of great interest to advanced-level students and scholars dealing with philosophy of science and methodological questions in International Relations.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions


Persons
Ewan Harrison is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Rutgers University, USA. He is author of The Post-Cold War International System: Strategies, Institutions and Reflexivity (2004), co-author of The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West (2014). He has published in Journal of Peace Research, Review of International Studies, International Studies Review, International Affairs and International Politics.
Patrick James is Dornsife Dean's Professor in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, USA. James is the author or editor of 23 books. He served previously as president of the International Council for Canadian Studies, Vice President of the International Studies Association and editor of International Studies Quarterly.
Content
Introduction : Progress, Consensus and Cumulation in IR Scholarship?
[Ewan Harrison, Annette Freyberg-Inan, and Patrick James]
Part I: Judging Progress in the Study of International Relations
Chapter 1 - The Bias of 'Science': On the Intellectual Appeal of Neopositivism
[Patrick Thaddeus Jackson]
Chapter 2 - Maps, Models and Theories: A Scientific Realist Approach to Validity
[Colin Wight]
Chapter 3 - Substance, Form and Content: Scholarly Communities, Institutions and the Nature of IR
[Torbjorn L. Knutsen]
Chapter 4 - The Role of Theory for Knowledge Creation in IR: A Sociable Pluralist Discussion
[Annette Freyberg-Inan]
Part II: Evaluating Progress in Democratic Peace Research - An Illustrative Case Study
Chapter 5 - Bounded Pluralism and Explanatory Progress in International Relations: What We Can Learn from the Democratic Peace Debate?
[Fred Chernoff]
Chapter 6 - Systemism, Analytic Eclecticism and the Democratic Peace
[Jarrod Hayes and Patrick James]
Chapter 7 - Rethinking the Democratic Peace: Competing Accounts of 'Scientific Progress' in IR
[Ewan Harrison]
Chapter 8 - The Normative Within the Explanatory: A Critical Take at the Democratic Peace Literature
[Piki Ish-Shalom]
Chapter 9 - The Closer You Look, the Less You See: Knowledge Cumulation in IR
[Laura Sjoberg]
Conclusion - Different Standards for Discovery and Confirmation
[Annette Freyberg-Inan, Ewan Harrison, and Patrick James]
System requirements
File format: PDF
Copy-Protection: Adobe-DRM (Digital Rights Management)
System requirements:
- Computer (Windows; MacOS X; Linux): Install the free reader Adobe Digital Editions prior to download (see eBook Help).
- Tablet/smartphone (Android; iOS): Install the free app Adobe Digital Editions or the app PocketBook before downloading (see eBook Help).
- E-reader: Bookeen, Kobo, Pocketbook, Sony, Tolino and many more (only limited: Kindle).
The file format PDF always displays a book page identically on any hardware. This makes PDF suitable for complex layouts such as those used in textbooks and reference books (images, tables, columns, footnotes). Unfortunately, on the small screens of e-readers or smartphones, PDFs are rather annoying, requiring too much scrolling.
This eBook uses Adobe-DRM, a „hard” copy protection. If the necessary requirements are not met, unfortunately you will not be able to open the eBook. You will therefore need to prepare your reading hardware before downloading.
Please note: We strongly recommend that you authorise using your personal Adobe ID after installation of any reading software.
For more information, see our eBook Help page.