Evaluating progress in international relations: how do you know?

by Freyberg-Inan, Annette Harrison, Ewan James, Patrick

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Full title :Evaluating progress in international relations : how do you know? / edited by Annette Freyberg-Inan, Ewan Harrison and Patrick James.

Summary

"This edited volume offers a systematic evaluation of how knowledge is produced by scholarly research into International Relations. The contributors explore three key questions: To what extent is scientific progress and accumulation of knowledge possible? What are the different accounts of how this process takes place? And what are the dominant critiques of these understandings? It is the first publication to survey the full range of perspectives available for evaluating scientific progress as well as dominant critiques of scientism. In its second part, the volume applies this range of perspectives to the research program on the democratic peace. It shows what we gain by accommodating and enabling dialogue among the full range of epistemological approaches. The contributors elaborate and defend the epistemological position of sociable pluralism as one that seeks to build bridges between soft positivism, critical theory, and critical realism. The underlying idea is that if the differences between the various approaches used by different communities of researchers can be understood more clearly, this will facilitate meaningful cross-cutting communication, dialogue, and debate and thereby enable us to address real-world problems more effectively" (ed.).

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

Description:1 v. (xvii-215 pages) ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781138674165, 1138674168
oclc:on1013458590
LC Classification:JZ1242
Dewey Decimal:327.101

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