Evaluating progress in international relations: how do you know?/ edited by Annette Freyberg-Inan, Ewan Harrison and Patrick James.
Material type: TextPublication details: London: Routledge, 2017Description: xvii, 215 p.; 24 cmISBN: 9781138674165Subject(s): International relations -- Philosophy | International relationsDDC classification: 327.101Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University (Yangang Campus) General Book Section | 327.101 FRE/E (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C1 | Available | 48796 | ||
General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University (Yangang Campus) General Book Section | 327.101 FRE/E (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C2 | Available | 48797 |
'This volume is the product of .. [a] "Venture Workshop" grant .. this support launched our project at the ISA convention in the spring of 2014.'
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Judging progress in the study of international relations -- 1. The bias of "science": on the intellectual appeal of neopositivism / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson -- 2. Maps, models, and theories: a scientific realist approach to validity / Colin Wight -- 3. Substance, form, and context: scholarly communities, institutions, and the nature of IR / Torbjørn L. Knutsen -- 4. The role of theory for knowledge creation in IR: a sociable pluralist discussion / Annette Freyberg-Inan -- pt. II Evaluating progress in democratic peace research -- an illustrative case study -- 5. Bounded pluralism and explanatory progress in international relations: what we can learn from the democratic peace debate / Fred Chernoff -- 6. System ism, analytic eclecticism, and the democratic peace / Patrick James -- 7. Rethinking the democratic peace: competing accounts of "scientific progress" in IR / Ewan Harrison -- 8. The normative within the explanatory: a critical take on the democratic peace literature / Piki Ish-Shalom -- 9. The closer you look, the less you see: knowledge cumulation in IR / Laura Sjoberg.
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