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Title: Explaining and Understanding International Relations by Martin Hollis ISBN: 0-19-827589-7 Publisher: Clarendon Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great teaching tool
Comment: This review by a philospher of science and an International Relations theorist of the range of debates in International Relations theory is one of the more useful advanced teaching tools in the discipline. What distinguingshes this book from the usual run-of-the-mill IR theory textbook is the authors' concern to locate IR theory within the broader questions of philosophy of the sciences. The conclusions will certainly not please those who believe in positivism, and provides one of the most convincing critiques of positivist approaches in IR. This is a book for those who take theory serious, and are prepared to put some thought into their reading, and who believe that epistemology and ontology are important.
I have used this book in a postgraduate IR theory course virtually since it was published, and year after year my students find it the most useful and interesting piece of reading in the course
Rating: 2
Summary: Explaining or Understanding
Comment: A ponderous treatment of the question whether international politics can best be studies scientifically--like say physics or chemistry--or by writing journalistic and historical accounts that may not exaplain things as prcesicely as scientific theories, yet provide a lot of real "understanding" of politics. The two authors take opposing views and drag out this pointless discussion to the point of no resolution.
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Title: Social Theory of International Politics by Alexander Wendt ISBN: 0521469600 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Understanding International Relations by Chris Brown ISBN: 0333948491 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: 20 Years Crisis 1919 1939 by Edward H. Carr ISBN: 0061311227 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 March, 1981 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Culture of National Security by Peter J. Katzenstein ISBN: 0231104693 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: International Theory: Positivism and Beyond by Steve Smith, Ken Booth, Marysia Zalewski ISBN: 0521479487 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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