While many texts on international relations deal only with ideologies,
this book goes beyond discussion of ideology to provide an
understanding of how global economics, politics, and society operate.
The book begins with a history of the International Studies
Association, which was founded to develop empirically-based knowledge
and was opposed to ideological “isms” as biased guides to policy.
The book focuses on four major paradigms—Marxian, Mass Society,
Community Building, and Rational Choice—with diagrams indicating
their empirical predictions over time. The Marxian paradigm focuses on
scientific claims of Marx and Engels. The Mass Society paradigm
explains why democracies become dysfunctional. The Community Building
paradigm explains how communities can be and are built at the local,
national, regional, and international levels. The Rational Choice
paradigm assembles proposed explanations of reason-based economic,
political, and social life to demonstrate what they have in common.
Other candidates for paradigms are reviewed, with a focus on why they
need further development to become major paradigms at the
decision-making, dyadic, societal, national, and international system
levels of analysis.
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ISBN
9781498545006
Publisert
2017
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Lexington Books
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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