A faulty solution to a False(ly characterized) problem: A comment on Monteiro and Ruby
In: International theory: IT ; a journal of international politics, law and philosophy, Band 1, Heft 3, S. 455-465
ISSN: 1752-9719
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In: International theory: IT ; a journal of international politics, law and philosophy, Band 1, Heft 3, S. 455-465
ISSN: 1752-9719
In: Journal of international relations and development: JIRD, official journal of the Central and East European International Studies Association, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 1-2
ISSN: 1408-6980
In: Journal of international relations and development: JIRD, official journal of the Central and East European International Studies Association, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 221-222
ISSN: 1408-6980
In: Cooperation and conflict: journal of the Nordic International Studies Association, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 354-357
ISSN: 1460-3691
In: International political sociology, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 91-93
ISSN: 1749-5687
In: International studies perspectives: ISP, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 99-105
ISSN: 1528-3585
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 129-153
ISSN: 1469-9044
AbstractWhile the recent proliferation in philosophical discussions in International Relations indicates a welcome increase in the discipline's conceptual sophistication, a central issue has gone relatively unremarked: the question of how to understand the relationship between scholarly observers and their observed objects. This classical philosophical problem has a number of implications for the conduct of inquiry in the discipline, and raises particular challenges for the status of knowledge-claims advanced by constructivists. I clarify these issues and challenges by distinguishing between 'dualist' and 'monist' ontological standpoints, in the hope of provoking a more focused philosophical discussion.
In: Cooperation and conflict: journal of the Nordic International Studies Association, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 341-347
ISSN: 0010-8367
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 129-154
ISSN: 0260-2105
In: International studies perspectives: a journal of the International Studies Association, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 99-105
ISSN: 1528-3577
In: Cooperation and conflict: journal of the Nordic International Studies Association, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 354-356
ISSN: 0010-8367
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 69, Heft 3, S. 883-885
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 69, Heft 3, S. 883-884
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: International studies review, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 337-337
ISSN: 1468-2486
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 30, Heft 2, S. 255-258
ISSN: 1469-9044
In 1959, Arnold Wolfers published an essay entitled 'The Actors In World Politics' in which he suggested that the importance of the state as an actor, although undeniable, needed to be submitted to 'empirical analysis' and clearer theorisation if its precise role was to be ascertained. Unfortunately, almost no one seems to have heeded his advice, and the question about what we might call the person-hood of the state virtually vanished from the agenda of mainstream International Relations (IR) theory. Realists, neorealists, neoliberal institutionalists, theorists of international society, and even many Marxists were content to treat states as, in effect, big people, endowed with perceptions, desires, emotions, and the other attributes of person-hood. Significantly, they persisted in these practices even though they often admitted that – in Robert Gilpin's words – 'strictly speaking . . . only individuals and individuals joined together into various types of coalitions can be said to have interests' and therefore really be actors.