Pos-Positivismo e ideologia na teoria das relacoes internacionais

In: Relações internacionais: R:I, Heft 16, S. 75-83

Abstract

The discipline of International Relations is currently characterized by significant theoretical an epistemological diversity. The "past modern turn" is usually identified as a spin-off from the post-positivistic debate, & can be viewed as a similar outcome to other development occurring in the field of the human ties & the social sciences. This mutation of an imitatio scientia process to another process of imitatio post-modernum raises several questions, some e which are examined & discussed in this article, namely, the relations hi between knowledge, science & ideology & the reasons for the growing acceptance of the post-positivist approaches. Finally, the article makes, an appeal to the "deconstruction" ( this new orthodoxy & its ideological & epistemological strategies of legitimacy. Adapted from the source document.