Beyond boundaries? : disciplines, paradigms, and theoretical integration in international studies
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Beyond boundaries? : disciplines, paradigms, and theoretical integration in international studies
（SUNY series in global politics / James N. Rosenau, editor）
State University of New York Press, c2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book represents a critical yet constructive reappraisal of the role, and the limits, of the boundaries that define and separate disciplines and subfields in the social sciences, as well as the boundaries that divide distinct research traditions or paradigms in the analysis of international life. It provides an integrative and eclectic examination of the virtues of a more flexible division of labor, a division that facilitates more meaningful communication among scholars of different methodological persuasions investigating similar problems in international life.
Part One addresses concrete issues in international studies ranging from international bargaining and interdependence to conceptions of collective identity. The essays therein serve as creative models for integrating concepts and analytic logics from different theoretical frameworks rooted in different disciplines. Part Two shifts the focus to more wide-ranging questions in the philosophy of the social sciences and the organization of social science research in order to shed new light on the value and validity of boundaries currently drawn between different schools, sects, disciplines, and subfields.
Contributors include Tadashi Anno, Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Anne L. Clunan, Eileen M. Doherty, Wade L. Huntley, Timothy W. Luke, Norrin M. Ripsman, and Rudra Sil.
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
1. The Questionable Status of Boundaries: The Need for Integration
Rudra Sil
Part One
Constructing Integrative Frameworks
2. Negotiating Across Disciplines: The Implications of Judgment and Decision-Making Research for International Relations Theory
Eileen M. Doherty
3. Contextual Information and the Study of Trade and Conflict: The Utility of an Interdisciplinary Approach
Norrin M. Ripsman and Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
4. Constructing Concepts of Identity: Prospects and Pitfalls of a Sociological Approach to World Politics
Anne L. Clunan
5. Collective Identity as an "Emotional Investment Portfolio": An Economic Analogy to a Psychological Process
Tadashi Anno
Part Two
Reorienting the Foundations?
6. Against Epistemological Absolutism: Toward a "Pragmatic" Center?
Rudra Sil
7. Thresholds in the Evolution of Social Science
Wade L. Huntley
8. The Discipline as Disciplinary Normalization: Networks of Research
Timothy W. Luke
9. Beyond Boundaries? A Tentative Appraisal
Eileen M. Doherty
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