International Relations and the Problem of Difference

ISBN-13: 9780415946384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str.

David L. Blaney; Naeem Inayatullah; Lester Ruiz

Opis

International Relations and the Problem of Difference developed out of the growing sense that International Relations as a discipline does not assess the quality of cultural interactions that shape, and are shaped by, the changing structures and processes of the international system. IR has long had little to say about the motivations of individuals, about the interactions of communities, or about the role of identity. Inayatullah and Blaney re-imagine IR as a uniquely placed site for the study of differences. They suggest that IR might be organized explicitly around the exploration of the relation of wholes and parts and sameness and difference.

Recenzje

"This is more than a good book-it is an astonishingly good book-beautifully written, persuasively argued an intellectual tour de force in the best sense. It is a treat and a voyage of discovery to read, a wonderful example of critical theory and very probably a modern classic." -- Yale H. Ferguson, Rutgers University

Spis treści

Preface Introduction Part I: Difference in the Constitution of IR 1. The Westphalian Deferral 2. Intimate Indians 3. IR and the Inner Life of Modernization Theory Part. II: Studies in Difference and Contemporary IR 4. IPE as a Culture of Competition 5. Towards an Ethnological IPE 6. Multiple and Overlapping Sovereignties Epilogue

O autorze

David L. Blaney is Associate Professor of Political Science at Macalester College and Executive Committee Member of the ISA.
Naeem Inayatullah is Assistant Professor of Politics at Ithaca College.