International Relations--Still an American Social Science?: Toward Diversity in International Thought

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Robert M.A. Crawford, Darryl S.L. Jarvis
State University of New York Press, 2000 M11 30 - 416 pages
This book is a valuable evaluation of the propensity toward parochialism in international thought. It analyzes the implications in terms of how the "problems" of international relations, the theoretical tools constructed to deal with them, and the direction of theoretical debate often reflect the unconscious bias of the national domains in which these intellectual activities are conducted. It scans the breadth of the contemporary discipline, broadly attempting to take its pulse and assess the contours of its new diversity.

Contributors include Pal Ahluwalia, Chris Brown, Molly Cochran, Robert M. A. Crawford, Roger Epp, Martin Griffiths, A. J. R. Groom, Teresa Healey, John M. Hobson, K. J. Holsti, Darryl S. L. Jarvis, Peter Mandaville, Mark Neufeld, Kim R. Nossal, Terry O'Callaghan, Jan Pettman, Tony Porter, James Richardson, Roger Spegele, and Michael Sullivan.
 

Contents

An American Social Science International Relations
27
What Does It Mean to Be an American Social Science? A Pragmatist Case for Diversity in International Relations
53
Along the Road of International Theory in the Next Millennium Four Travelogues
73
Identity Politics Postmodern Feminisms and International Theory Questioning the New Diversity in International Relations
101
Can There Be National Perspectives on Inter national Relations?
131
National and Transnational Identities in International Theory
149
Hegemony and Autonomy in International Relations The Continental Experience
151
Tales That Textbooks Tell Ethnocentricity and Diversity in American Introductions to International Relations
167
Above the American Discipline A Canadian Perspective on Epistemological and Pedagogical Diversity
243
Transcending National Identity The Global Political Economy of Gender and Class
255
Toward Diversity in International Thought
275
International Relations and Cognate Disciplines From Economics to Historical Sociology
277
At the Woods Edge Toward a Theoretical Clearing for Indigenous Diplomacies in International Relations
299
Out with TheoryIn with Practical Reflection Toward a New Understanding of Realist Moral Skepticism
325
Beyond International Relations Edward Said and the World
349
International Relations An International Discipline?
369

The End of International Relations?
187
Fog in the Channel Continental International Relations Theory Isolated Or an essay on the Paradoxes of Diversity and Parochialism in IR Theory
203
Where Have All the Theorists GoneGone to Britain Every One? A Story of Two Parochialisms in International Relations
221
CONTRIBUTORS
381
INDEX
387
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Robert M. A. Crawford is Assistant Professor in the Arts Program at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Regime Theory in the Post-Cold War World: Rethinking Neoliberal Approaches to International Relations. Darryl S. L. Jarvis is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of International Relations: Defending the Discipline.

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