Visions of International Relations
Assessing an Academic Field

Donald J. Puchala (Edited by)

9781570034138

Paperback / softback, published 3 March 2002

192 pages, illustrations
21.8 x 16.1 x 1.6 cm, 0.3 kg

Almost since the founding of the discipline of international relations, scholars have debated about appropriate ways to describe, study and explain the realm of human behaviour that has to do with relations among states and peoples. Such scholarly discussion, however enlightening, has in more recent years also led to polarization of views, fragmentations of interests and attention, and bouts of intolerance within the field. In this collection of essays by eight prominent scholars, each of whom presents a divergent ontological, epistemological or methodological view on the study of international relations, there appears hope for redefining and reinvigorating intellectual exchange. Emerging from a series of seminars organized by the Walker Institute of International Studies at the University of South Carolina, the volume, edited by Donald J. Puchala, brings together the assessments of scholars who were challenged to defend their standpoints but also to build bridges between them.

Sculpting the Academic Identity - Disciplinary Reflections at the Dawn of a New Millennium, Yosef Lapid
One Field, Many Perspectives - Shifting from Debate to Dialogue, Margaret G. Hermann
Visions of Global Politics as an Intellectual Enterprise - Three Questions Without Answers, Harvey Starr
Bridge Building in the Study of International Relations - How ""Kuhn"" we do better, Charles W. Kegley Jr
The Moral Pulse of International Relations, Gregory A. Raymond
Deterritorializing Global Politics, Richard W. Mansbach
Worlds of Our Making - The Strange Career of Constructivism in International Relations, Nicholas Onuf
Harold Lasswell's Legacy and 21st-Century International Relations, Donald J. Puchala.