Seven Types of Ambiguity in Western International Relations Theory and Painful Steps Towards Right Ethics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10830246 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Chan (0000-0002-2312-2137) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 89 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0495-4548 • E-ISSN: 2171-679X |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/004058197783593434 |
| OpenAlex | W1999659556 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Since its inception, the discipline of International Relations has struggled to establish the rigour of its methodological base in the academy, and it has struggled to establish whether and how it might have any moral place in the world. At the end of the millennium both struggles have reached a high point. Methodologically, the discipline has begun a trans-Atlantic separation. On the one hand there has been a U.S. emphasis on neo-realism and neo-liberalism, which in both its categorisations and its positivistic tendencies is not a considerable departure from the inter-war debate between realists and idealists. On the other hand there has been a British concern not only for a ‘historicised’ discipline, but for the intellectual history of the discipline itself. Steve Smith has written on ten self-images that International Relations has held
Ambiguity · Epistemology · International relations · International relations theory · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Post-realism · Realism · Rigour · Section (typography · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2021 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |