After International Relations: Critical Realism and the (Re)Construction of World Politics

by Heikki Patomäki

Overview

After International Relations articulates a systematic critical realist response to a quest for more emancipatory methodologies in International Relations. Heikki Patomäki here establishes a way out of the international relations problematic which has puzzled so many great thinkers and scholars for the last two hundred years. After International Relations shows how and why theories based on the international problematic have failed; articulates an alternative, critical realist research programme; and illustrates how this research programme can be put to work to enable better research and ethico-political practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415256605
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/06/2001
Series:	Critical Realism: Interventions (Routledge Critical Realism)
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction I. Overcoming International Relations 1. How it all Started? Can it End? A Genealogy of the International Problematic 2. Learning from Alker: From Quantitative Peace Research to Emancipatory Humanism 3. How to Tell Better Stories About World Politics II. Explicating a Critical Realist Methodology 4. Critical realist Ontology 5. Double Hermeneutics of Iconic Modeling 6. The Normative Logic of Explanatory Emancipation III. Visions of World Politics 7. Modeling Thucydides' Melos Episode 8. A Global Security Community 9. From Security to Emancipatory World Politics: Beyond 'Nordic Nostalgia' Epilogue