Evaluating Progress in International Relations - 9781138674165

Name: Evaluating Progress in International Relations - 9781138674165
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Evaluating Progress in International RelationsHow do you know?\nAuthor(s): Annette Freyberg-Inan, Ewan Harrison, Patrick James\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138674165, 978-1138674165\nSynopsis\nThis edited volume offers a systematic evaluation of how knowledge is produced by scholarly research into International Relations. The contributors explore three key questions: To what extent is scientific progress and accumulation of knowledge possible? What are the different accounts of how this process takes place? And what are the dominant critiques of these understandings? It is the first publication to survey the full range of perspectives available for evaluating scientific progress as well as dominant critiques of scientism.\n\nIn its second part, the volume applies this range of perspectives to the research program on the democratic peace. It shows what we gain by accommodating and enabling dialogue among the f.