INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE
In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 243-262
ISSN: 0305-8298
MUCH CURRENT RESEARCH AND TEACHING IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IS RESTRICTED TO NARROW THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL AREAS. IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE GLOBAL DIMENSIONS OF POLITICAL LIFE, SCHOLARS MUST REPLACE THEIR CURRENT PARTICULARIST INQUIRIES WITH A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO THE DISCIPLINE, FOUNDED ON A DIALECTICAL EPISTEMOLOGY AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. THE GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL CRISIS, WHICH HIGHLIGHTS THE FUNDAMENTAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN HISTORY AND NATURE, CAN ONLY BE UNDERSTOOD THROUGH PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION.