| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 271 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Richard W. Mansbach -- International Relations Theory in Perspective -- Pragmatics of International History -- International Theory and Cyclical History -- Tragedy of War and the Search for Meaning in International History -- Dancing Dinosaurs of the Cold War -- International Encounters of Another Kind -- Colonization and Culture in the Ancient World -- Myth, History, and Morality -- Liberal Theory and Linear History -- Beyond the Divided Discipline. |
| Summary |
Theory and History in International Relations is an eloquent plea to scholars of global politics to turn away from the ""manufacture"" of data and return to a systematic study of history as a basic for theory. While the modest use of empiricism will always be important, Puchala rejects the logical positivism of the so-called ""scientific revolution"" in the field in favor of a more complex, even intuitive, vision of global politics. He addresses the potential uses of history in studying some of the major debates of our time-the Cold War as a struggle between empires, the collision of civilizat. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
International relations -- Philosophy.
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International relations -- Philosophy. |
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International relations -- History.
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International relations. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Spine Title |
Theory & history in international relations |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Puchala, Donald James, 1939- Theory and history in international relations. New York : Routledge, 2003 0415945356 (DLC) 2002037193 (OCoLC)51983201 |
| ISBN |
9781136074509 (electronic book) |
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1136074503 (electronic book) |
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9780203620250 (e-book) |
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0203620259 (e-book) |
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0415945356 |
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9780415945356 |
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0415945364 |
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9780415945363 |
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