Rediscoveries & Reformulations: Humanistic Methodologies for International Studies: 41 (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 41) - Softcover

Alker

 
9780521466950: Rediscoveries & Reformulations: Humanistic Methodologies for International Studies: 41 (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 41)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521466954 ISBN 13: 9780521466950
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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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Review

"Indeed, vicarious voyagers may find the zest and courage that shines through this extraordinary book all the reason they need to venture out on their own." Nicholas Onuf, American Political Science Review

Book Description

In this book Hayward Alker presents his principal methodological 'rediscoveries'and provides a rich set of 'humanistic' alternatives to the conventional scientific approaches within international studies, and social science more generally. He offers a reinterpretation of pre-modern, modern and post-modern thinkers from Aristotle to Connolly.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521466954
ISBN 13 
9780521466950
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
488

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