Evaluating Progress in International Relations
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This book evaluates how knowledge is produced by scholarly research into international relations. The authors explore: to what extent is scientific progress and accumulation of knowledge possible? What are the different accounts of how this process takes place? What are the dominant critiques of these understandings of the application of scientific methods to understanding world politics? This is the first book to survey the full range of perspectives available for evaluating scientific progress as well as dominant critiques of scientism. As such it provides a unique key guide to these…mehr

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This book evaluates how knowledge is produced by scholarly research into international relations. The authors explore: to what extent is scientific progress and accumulation of knowledge possible? What are the different accounts of how this process takes place? What are the dominant critiques of these understandings of the application of scientific methods to understanding world politics? This is the first book to survey the full range of perspectives available for evaluating scientific progress as well as dominant critiques of scientism. As such it provides a unique key guide to these important, salient debates, and will interest students and scholars dealing with research methods in IR.
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Annette Freyberg-Inan is a lecturer and member of the research program "Political Economy and Transnational Governance" at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Among her many publications are the monograph What Moves Man: The Realist Theory of International Relations and Its Judgment of Human Nature (2004) and the edited volume Human Beings in IR Theory (2015). She is co-editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development, a former Vice President of the International Studies Association and the Vice Chair of its Theory Section. Ewan Harrison is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Rutgers University, USA. He is author of The Post-Cold War International System: Strategies, Institutions and Reflexivity (2004), co-author of The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West (2014). He has published in Journal of Peace Research, Review of International Studies, International Studies Review, International Affairs and International Politics. Patrick James is Dornsife Dean's Professor in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, USA. James is the author or editor of 23 books. He served previously as president of the International Council for Canadian Studies, Vice President of the International Studies Association and editor of International Studies Quarterly.