3/21/2006
Guzzini: Paradigm Lost
Stefano Guzzini: Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy: the continuing story of a death foretold
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Routledge 1998
ISBN: 0415144027
Guzzini's presentation is a narration about an evolving discipline. Realism, the now "paradigm lost", defined once the whole discipline of IR. Now realism is only a "still widely shared device for constructing knowledge".
The Continuing Story of a Death Foretold is a good book in presenting the debates of IR in a concise and straigh-forward manner. The sceptical theory par excellence, or at least the ideas it has generated are alive and kicking...
¶ 3/21/2006 11:56:00 ip.
Stefano Guzzini: Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy: the continuing story of a death foretoldPaperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Routledge 1998
ISBN: 0415144027
Guzzini's presentation is a narration about an evolving discipline. Realism, the now "paradigm lost", defined once the whole discipline of IR. Now realism is only a "still widely shared device for constructing knowledge".
The Continuing Story of a Death Foretold is a good book in presenting the debates of IR in a concise and straigh-forward manner. The sceptical theory par excellence, or at least the ideas it has generated are alive and kicking...
"Whether or not the world realism depicts is out there, realism is."Second opinion: Petr Drulak / Ljubljana University
¶ 3/21/2006 11:56:00 ip.
