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After International Relations: Critical Realism and the (Re)construction of World Politics (Critical Realism: Interventions)
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Product Description
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.
Product Details
- Published on: 2001-12-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
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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.
Developing a critical realist methodology for international relations, peace research and global political economy this book resolves many of the theoretical aporias of international relations. It explains in detail the way research should be conducted in open systems and pluralistic contexts. It refines the logic of explanatory emancipation beyond the confines of nation states, and
