Author: Alker, Hayward R.
Title: Rediscoveries and Reformulations: Humanistic Methodologies for International Studies
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1996). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xviii,464 pp, Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations: 41.. Minor rubbing. Rubberstamp to reverse of title-page. VG. ¶ Contents: Recovering Western Antiquity: The dialectical logic of Thucydides' Melian Dialogue; Aristotelian political methodologies; Toynbee's Jesus: computational hermeneutics and the continuing presence of classical Mediterranean civilization; The Humanistic Science of the Modern Classics: The humanistic moment in international studies: reflections on Machiavelli and Las Casas; Can the end of power politics be part of the concepts with which its story is told? A Leibnizian reply; Rescuing ' reason' from the 'rationalists': reading Vico, Marx and Weber as reflexive institutionalists; An Orwellian Lasswell; Contemporary Humanistic Reformulations: Fairy tales, tragedies and world histories: Testable structuralist interpretations; Beneath Tit-for-Tat: the contest of political economy fairy tales within SPD protocols; Emancipatory empiricism: toward the renewal of empirical peace research; The presumption of anarchy in world politics: On recovering the historicity of world society; The return of practical reason to international theory. ["..Hayward Alker rediscovers a 'neo-Classical' conception of international relations which is both humanistic and scientific..The central challenge addressed is how to integrate 'positivist' or 'falsificationist' research styles within humanist 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.." -

Keywords: Political Philosophy, International, Relations, Humanistic, Methodology, Methodologies, Political Science, Narrative Modelling, Reconstructive