Description
This book provides a distinctive and rich conception of methodology within international studies. From a rereading of the works of leading Western thinkers about international studies, Hayward Alker rediscovers a 'neo-Classical' conception of international relations which is both humanistic and scientific. He draws on the work of classical authors such as Aristotle and Thucydides; modern writers like Machiavelli, Vico, Marx, Weber, Deutsch and Bull; and post-modern writers like Havel, Connolly and Toulmin. The central challenge addressed is how to integrate 'positivist' or 'falsificationist' research styles within humanistic or interpretive ones. The author argues that appropriate, philosophically informed reformulations of conventional statistical and game-theoretic analyses are possible, and describes a number of humanistic methodologies for international relations, including argumentation analysis, narrative modeling, computational models of political understanding and reconstructive analysis.
Chapter
Rescher's dialectical logic
A partial, Rescherian f ormalization ofthe Melian Dialogue
Other dialectical elements in Thucydides'Melian Dialogue
On the appropriation of the classics
2 Aristotelian political methodologies
Was the study of politics a science for Aristotle,and if so, how?
Some methodological standards from theAristotelian tradition
Substantively unified, technically diverse politicalmethodology
3 Toynbee's Jesus:Computational hermeneutics and thecontinuing presence of classicalMediterranean civilization1
A new approach to an old topic
On meeting these desiderata with plot unitsummarization procedures
Our first search for mimetic plot structure
Our second search for mimetic plot structure
Part II The humanistic science of themodern classics
4 The humanistic moment inInternational Studies:Reflections on Machiavelli and Las Casas
Rediscovering the humanities: from postmodernityback to the Renaissance
Machiavelli, Renaissance humanism andmodernity
Bartolome de Las Casas as a humanist historian ofthe New World
Modernity, post-modernity and humanisticInternational Studies
5 Can the end of power politics be partof the concepts with which its story istold?A Leibnizian reply
Three dialectical puzzles
Outline of a Leibnizian resolution
Some operational implications
6 Rescuing "reason" from the"rationalists":Reading Vico, Marx and Weber asreflective institutionalists
Vico's historical hermeneutics
Hayden White's version of Vico's stages, appliedto Marx
Habermas' reflectively radicalized Weber
Weber's critique of modernity
The communicative foundations of Habermas'reformulation of Weber
Habermas' radicalized version of Weber'smodernity thesis
A second look at the reflectivist tradition ofresearch on international institutions
7 An Orwellian Lasswell:Humanistic scientist
Science, commitment and power
Democratic possibilities after 1984
Part III Contemporary humanisticreformulations
8 Fairy tales, tragedies andworld histories:Testable structuralist interpretations
From fairy tale morphology to "simple" storygrammars consistent with affectively relevant plotsummaries
Tragedies and comedies about the weak andthe strong
How interpretive story grammars may disciplinethe writing of theoretically informed worldhistorical narratives
9 Beneath Tit-f or-Tat:The contest of political economy fairy taleswithin SPD protocols1
Fairy tales in the humanities and the socialsciences
Capitalistic fables, fairy tales and nightmares
Asymmetric SPD games as contemporary,political-economic narrative construction,discovery and completion exercises
A 1952 RAND preview of our subsequent research
The contest of order-building resolutions in our1979-1983 exercises
The current round: Communication and cashfacilitate equitable resolutions
How ASPD narratives research historidzes andhumanizes contemporary sociopolitical economy
10 Emancipatory empiricism:Toward the renewal of empirical peaceresearch
How its emancipatory knowledge interestdistinguishes peace research
How emancipatory empiricism connects to peaceresearch
Twelve epistemological guidelines foremancipatory peace research
Towards emancipatory ontology
11 The presumption of anarchy inworld politics1On recovering the historicity of world society
Hedley Bull's World Society Problematique vs.the Cooperation under Anarchy Problematique
The meaning of anarchy as an issue of worldpolitics
Hobbes vs. Grotius vs. Kant, replayed
Positivism, economism and capitalism
Toward pluralistic security communities
12 The return of practical reason tointernational theory
Judgment and practical reason in the Bull-Kaplandebate
Practical reasoning in classical andcontemporary guises
Practical reason returns to scientificinternational theory
How practical reasoning theorists transcend thepresumption of anarchy in world politics
Removing obstructions on the long road tocumulative international theory
Practical understanding, theoretical explanationand interdisciplinarity in the "Third Debate"
Rediscoveries and Reformulations
：Humanistic Methodologies for International Studies
( Cambridge Studies in International Relations )
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