Alker and IR Global Studies in an Interconnected World [Paperback]

International Relations have rarely been considered a synthesis of humanistic and social sciences approaches to understand the complex connections of a global, and globalizing, world. One of the few scholars to have accomplished this creative blend was Hayward R. Alker.

Alker and IRpresents a set of visionary and original essays from scholars who have been profoundly influenced by Alker's approach to global studies. They build on the foundation he laid, demonstrating the practicality and usefulness of ethically grounded, theoretically informed and interdisciplinary research for producing knowledge. They show how substantive boundaries can be crossed and methodological rules rewritten in the search for a deeper, more contextualized approach to global politics.

This book will be of interest to researchers and students of international relations and global politics.

About the Authors  Acknowledgements  1. Introduction - Ren?e Marlin-Bennett and Thomas J. Biersteker  2. Human Nature and World Politics:EcceHayward Alker's Homo Politicusas Homo Humanitatis- Neta C. Crawford  3. On the Nature of Empirical Evidence - Ren?e Marlin-Bennett  4. A Fairy Tale of Science: Playing with Hayward Alker - L.H.M. Ling  5. Arguing Gender and International Relations: A Dialectical-Hermeneutical Approach - Laura Sjoberg  6. World Orders in Central Asia - Tahir Amin  7. Dialectics of Civilizations: A Cosmic Perspective - Heikki Patom?ki  8. Modern Order/Disorder : Notes for a Future Archeologist - Nicholas Onuf  9. Two Dilemmas of Democracy in the 21st Century - Ijaz Shafi Gilani  10. Alkerian Reformulations of Metaphor and IR - Eric M. Blanchard&nl³!