{"product_id":"rediscoveries-and-reformulations-humanistic-methodologies-for-international-studies-paperback-9780521466950","title":"Rediscoveries and Reformulations; Humanistic Methodologies for International Studies (Paperback) 9780521466950","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRediscoveries and Reformulations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHumanistic Methodologies for International Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn this book Hayward Alker presents his principal methodological 'rediscoveries'.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHayward R. Alker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521466950, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 30 May 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e488 pages, 26 b\/w illus.  8 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 3 cm, 0.805 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Indeed, vicarious voyagers may find the zest and courage that shines through this extraordinary book all the reason they need to venture out on their own.\"    Nicholas Onuf, American Political Science Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book provides a distinctive and rich conception of methodology within international studies. From a rereading of the works of leading Western thinkers about international studies, Hayward Alker rediscovers a 'neo-Classical' conception of international relations which is both humanistic and scientific. He draws on the work of classical authors such as Aristotle and Thucydides; modern writers like Machiavelli, Vico, Marx, Weber, Deutsch and Bull; and post-modern writers like Havel, Connolly and Toulmin. The central challenge addressed is how to integrate 'positivist' or 'falsificationist' research styles within humanistic or interpretive ones. The author argues that appropriate, philosophically informed reformulations of conventional statistical and game-theoretic analyses are possible, and describes a number of humanistic methodologies for international relations, including argumentation analysis, narrative modeling, computational models of political understanding and reconstructive analysis.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of figures\u003cbr\u003e List of tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: voyages of rediscovery\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Recovering Western Antiquity: 1. The dialectical logic of Thucydides' Melian Dialogue\u003cbr\u003e 2. Aristotelian political methodologies\u003cbr\u003e 3. Toynbee's Jesus: computational hermeneutics and the continuing presence of classical Mediterranean civilization\u003cbr\u003e Part II.The Humanistic Science of the Modern Classics: 4. The humanistic moment in international studies: reflections on Machiavelli and Las Casas\u003cbr\u003e 5. Can the end of power politics be part of the concepts with which its story is told? A Leibnizian reply\u003cbr\u003e 6. Rescuing 'reason' from the 'rationalists': reading Vico, Marx and Weber as reflexive institutionalists\u003cbr\u003e 7. An Orwellian Lasswell: humanistic scientist\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Contemporary Humanistic Reformulations: 8. Fairy tales, tragedies and world histories: testable structuralist interpretations\u003cbr\u003e 9. Beneath Tit-for-Tat: the contest of political economy fairy tales within SPD protocols\u003cbr\u003e 10. Emancipatory empiricism: toward the renewal of empirical peace research\u003cbr\u003e 11. The presumption of anarchy in world politics: on recovering the historicity of world society\u003cbr\u003e 12. The return of practical reason to international theory\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: International relations [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on International relations\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22International%20relations%20%5BJPS%5D%22\"\u003eJPS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005644329240,"sku":"9780521466950","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521466950i_0087b95b-37fb-429a-be53-a175204500f6.jpg?v=1691382594","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rediscoveries-and-reformulations-humanistic-methodologies-for-international-studies-paperback-9780521466950","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}