Recovering international relations : the promise of sustainable critique / Daniel J. Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Daniel J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--Philosophy.

International relations.

Physical Description:

xv, 331 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Recovering International Relations bridges two key divides in contemporary IR: between "value-free" and normative theory, and between reflective, philosophically inflected explorations of ethics in scholarship and close, empirical studies of practical problems in world politics. Featuring a novel, provocative and detailed survey of IR's development over the second half of the twentieth century, the work draws on early Frankfurt School social theory to suggest a new ethical and methodological foundation for the study of world politics-sustainable critique-which draws these disparate approaches together in light of their common aims, and redacts them in the face of their particular limitations. Understanding the discipline as a vocation as well as a series of academic and methodological practices, sustainable critique aims to balance the insights of normative and empirical theory against each other. Each must be brought to bear if scholarship is to meaningfully, and responsibly, address an increasingly dense, heavily armed, and persistently diverse world. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: sustainable critique and the lost vocation of international relations

"For we born after:" the challenge of sustainable critique

Sustainable critique and critical IR theory: against emancipation

The realist dilemma: politics and the limits of theory

Communitarian IR theory

Individualist IR theory: disharmonious cooperation

Conclusion: toward sustainably critical international theory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199916061

0199916063

9780199916085

019991608X

OCLC:

778990968