Discourses of global politics : A critical (re) introduction to international relations /
Jim George
- Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994
- xi, 263 p. / 23 cm.
(Re) introducing the theory as practice of international relations, 1. -- Discourses of modernity : Toward the positivist framing of contemporary social theory and international relations, 41. -- The making of international relations : From modernist tradiction to cold war discipline, 69. -- The positivist - realist phase : Morgenthau, behavioralism, and the quest for certainty, 91. -- The backward discipline revisited : The closed world of neo-realism, 111. -- Critical social theory : Thinking beyond the orthodox consensus, 139. -- Thinking beyond international relations : The critical theory challenge, 171. -- Thinking beyond international relations : Postmodernism - reconceptualizing theory as practice, 191. -- Conclusion, 221