International Relations : a Self-Study Guide to Theory.
The book is written for active learners - those keen on cutting their own path through the complex and at times hardly comprehensible world of THEORY in International Relations. To aid this process as much as possible, this book employs the didactical and methodical concept of integrating teaching a...
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2013.
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Table of Contents:
- International Relations; Preface; Contents; Part I: International Relations' Theory; 1. History of theoretical thought on inter-state relations and the formation of "International Relations" as an academic discipline; Learning steps; Introduction; Step 1: International Relations from an historical perspective: Interstate theory and discipline formation; Step 2: The core subject of International Relations and International Relations theory; Step 3: Check your understanding: key aspects and review questions; Step 4: Self-study and consolidation; 2. International Relations as science.
- Learning stepsIntroduction; Step 1: Philosophy of science: the "theory behind theories" (meta-theory); Step 2: Positivism as an example for a philosophy of science; Step 3: Check your understanding: Key aspects and review questions; Step 4: Consolidation; 3. World views and the idea of science in the history of European philosophy; Learning steps; Introduction; Step 1: World views; Step 2: Scientific world views; Step 3: Self-study and consolidation; Step 4: Discussion (optional, for advanced students); 4. Didactics and method; Introduction; 1. Core question.
- 2. Ontological assumptions about actors and structures in international relations3. Epistemology and methodology; 4. General approach to IR as a science and to the practice of international politics; Overview of criteria for a structured learning process about theories of IR; Review questions; Consolidation; Part II: Theories of International Relations: Five Approaches; 5. Neorealist theory; Learning steps; Step 1: Background and core question; Step 2: Assumptions about actors and structure; Step 3: The neorealist explanation of international politics.
- Step 4: Check your understanding: key aspects and review questionsStep 5: Final self-study and consolidation; 6. Neoinstitutionalist theory; Learning steps; Introduction; Step 1: Neoinstitutionalist theory as "modified structural realism"; Step 2: The neoinstitutionalist explanation of international politics; Step 3: Check your understanding: key aspects and review questions; Step 4: Final self-study and consolidation; 7. New liberal theory; Learning steps; Introduction; Step 1: New liberalism as a "positive" IR theory: assumptions aboutactors and structures.
- Step 2: New liberalism as a general theoretical approach to IRStep 3: Check your understanding: key aspects and review questions; Step 4: Final self-study and consolidation; 8. World-systems analysis; Learning steps; Introduction; Step 1: World-systems analysis: ontological, epistemological and methodological claims; Step 2: World-systems analysis; Step 3: The modern world-system; Step 4: Check your understanding: key aspects and review questions; Step 5: Final self-study and consolidation; 9. Social constructivist theory; Learning steps; Introduction.
