International Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

by P. Aalto (Editor), V. Harle (Editor), S. Moisio (Editor)

Overview

Presenting International Studies as a wide, plural and inherently interdisciplinary field of research, this book shows its links with philosophy, peace research, history, geography, globalization studies, international political economy, political psychology, sociology and social theory, linguistics, strategic or war studies and anthropology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349328291
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2011
Series:	Palgrave Studies in International Relations
Edition description:	1st ed. 2011
Pages:	279
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

SIMON DALBY Professor of Geography, Environmental Studies and Political Economy at the Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada PETR DRULÁK Director of the Institute of International Relations in Prague, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Charles University, Czech Republic, and Associate Editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development TUOMAS FORSBERG Professor of International Politics at the University of Tampere, Finland DAVID LONG Professor in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, Canada IVER B. NEUMANN Director of Research at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway

Table of Contents

PART I: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES Introduction; P.Aalto, V.Harle, D.Long & S.Moisio Interdisciplinarity and the Study of International Relations; D.Long Organizing Interdisciplinary International Studies: from Puzzlement to Research Programmes; P.Aalto Towards Interdisciplinary Research Programmes in International Studies: the Frankfurt School, the English School and Peace Research as Models; V.Harle PART II: LEVELS OF ANALYSIS Geographies of the International System: Globalization, Empire and the Anthropocene; S.Dalby Beyond the Domestic-International Divide: State Spatial Transformation as Neoliberal Geopolitics; S.Moisio The Human Subject in International Studies: an Outline for Interdisciplinary Research Programmes; P.Aalto PART III: CONCEPTS Power in International Relations: an Interdisciplinary Perspective; T.Forsberg War: from Disciplinarity to Multidisciplinarity and further to Transdisciplinarity; P.Drulák PART IV: END COMMENT End Comment: the Practices of Interdisciplinarity; I.B.Neumann