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Despite the proliferation of ideational accounts in the last decade
or so, the debate over the role of ideas remains caught up in a
series of disputes over the ontological foundations,
epistemological status and practical pay-off of the (re)turn to
ideational explanations. It is thus unsurprising that there is
still little clarity about just what sort of an approach an
ideational approach is and about what it would take to establish
the kind of fully-fledged ideational research programme many seem
to assume has already been developed. The contributors in this
volume address these dilemmas in diverse but engagingly
complementary ways. They argue that what plagues most attempts to
accord ideas an explanatory role is the persistence of the
perennial dualities in political analysis. In aspiring to eschew
the current vogue for dualistic polemic, the present volume reveals
elements of dualistic thinking in the ideational turn and assesses
the impact of the persistence of these perennial dualisms in the
attempt to accord ideas an explanatory role.
Despite the proliferation of ideational accounts in the last decade
or so, the debate over the role of ideas remains caught up in a
series of disputes over the ontological foundations,
epistemological status and practical pay-off of the (re)turn to
ideational explanations. It is thus unsurprising that there is
still little clarity about just what sort of an approach an
ideational approach is and about what it would take to establish
the kind of fully-fledged ideational research programme many seem
to assume has already been developed. The contributors in this
volume address these dilemmas in diverse but engagingly
complementary ways. They argue that what plagues most attempts to
accord ideas an explanatory role is the persistence of the
perennial dualities in political analysis. In aspiring to eschew
the current vogue for dualistic polemic, the present volume reveals
elements of dualistic thinking in the ideational turn and assesses
the impact of the persistence of these perennial dualisms in the
attempt to accord ideas an explanatory role.
The SAGE Handbook of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of
International Relations offers a panoramic overview of the broad
field of International Relations by integrating three distinct but
interrelated foci. It retraces the historical development of
International Relations (IR) as a professional field of study,
explores the philosophical foundations of IR, and interrogates the
sociological mechanisms through which scholarship is produced and
the field is structured. Comprising 38 chapters from both
established scholars and an emerging generation of innovative
meta-theorists and theoretically driven empiricists, the handbook
fosters discussion of the field from the inside out, forcing us to
come to grips with the widely held perception that IR is
experiencing an existential crisis quite unlike anything else in
its hundred-year history. This timely and innovative reference
volume reflects on situated scholarly practices in a way that
projects our collective thinking into the future. PART ONE: THE
INWARD GAZE: INTRODUCTORY REFLECTIONS PART TWO: IMAGINING THE
INTERNATIONAL, ACKNOWLEDGING THE GLOBAL PART THREE: THE SEARCH FOR
(AN) IDENTITY PART FOUR: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AS A PROFESSION
PART FIVE: LOOKING AHEAD: THE FUTURE OF META-ANALYSIS
The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism systematically integrates the
substantial body of scholarship on terrorism and counterterrorism
before and after 9/11. In doing so, it introduces scholars and
practitioners to state of the art approaches, methods, and issues
in studying and teaching these vital phenomena. This Handbook goes
further than most existing collections by giving structure and
direction to the fast-growing but somewhat disjointed field of
terrorism studies. The volume locates terrorism within the wider
spectrum of political violence instead of engaging in the
widespread tendency towards treating terrorism as an exceptional
act. Moreover, the volume makes a case for studying terrorism
within its socio-historical context. Finally, the volume addresses
the critique that the study of terrorism suffers from lack of
theory by reviewing and extending the theoretical insights
contributed by several fields - including political science,
political economy, history, sociology, anthropology, criminology,
law, geography, and psychology. In doing so, the volume showcases
the analytical advancements and reflects on the challenges that
remain since the emergence of the field in the early 1970s.
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