International Relations : A Self-Study Guide to Theory

• Tác giả: Manuela Spindler
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3847400059
• Thông tin xuất bản: Leverkusen-Opladen : Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2013
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 247043
• Chủ đề: 1. International relations

Tóm tắt

 The book is written for active learners ñ those keen on cutting their own path through the complex and at times hardly comprehensible world of THEORY in International Relations. To aid this process as much as possible, this book employs the didactical and methodical concept of integrating teaching and self-study. The criteria for structured learning about IR theory will be derived from an extensive discussion of the questions and problems of philosophy of science (Part 1). Theory of IR refers to the scientific study of IR and covers all of the following subtopics: the role and status of theory in the academic discipline of IR
  the understanding of IR as a science and what a "scientific" theory is
  the different assumptions upon which theory building in IR is based
  the different types of theoretical constructions and models of explanations found at the heart of particular theories.