International Relations and the Problem of Difference

ISBN-13: 9780415946377 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 272 str.

David L. Blaney; Naeem Inayatullah; Lester Ruiz

Opis

International Relations and the Problem of Difference has developed out of the sense that IR 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. In this work, the authors re-imagine IR as a uniquely placed site for the study of differences as organized explicitly around the exploration of the relation of wholes and parts and sameness and difference-and always the one in relation to the other.

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.