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Foreword /Richard W. Mansbach --International Relations Theory in Perspective --The Pragmatics of International History --International Theory and Cyclical History --The Tragedy of War and the Search for Meaning in International History --The Dancing Dinosaurs of the Cold War --International Encounters of Another Kind --Colonization and Culture in the Ancient World --Myth, History, and Morality --Liberal Theory and Linear History --Beyond the Divided Discipline.

Theory and History in International Relations is an eloquent plea to scholars of global politics to turn away from the ""manufacture"" of data and return to a systematic study of history as a basic for theory. While the modest use of empiricism will always be important, Puchala rejects the logical positivism of the so-called ""scientific revolution"" in the field in favor of a more complex, even intuitive, vision of global politics. He addresses the potential uses of history in studying some of the major debates of our time-the Cold War as a struggle between empires, the collision of civilizat

Sculpting the academic identity : disciplinary reflections at the dawn of a new millennium / Yosef Lapid -- One field, many perspectives : shifting from debate to dialogue / Margaret G. Hermann -- Visions of global politics as an intellectual enterprise : three questions without answers / Harvey Starr -- Bridge-building in the study of international relations : how "Kuhn" we do better? / Charles W. Kegley, Jr. -- The moral pulse of international relations / Gregory A. Raymond -- Deterritorializing global politics / Richard W. Mansbach -- Worlds of our making : the strange career of constructivism in international relations / Nicholas Onuf -- Harold Lasswell's legacy and twenty-first century international relations / Donald J. Puchala

According to the authors, the construction of "Greater China" is fundamentally a Chinese undertaking. Neither the USA in particular, nor the outside world in general, will have much influence over the development of Greater China. They examine the Greater China project and its implications from an American standpoint. The authors believe that the construction of a Greater China will have political, cultural, and international impacts of the most far-reaching kind. (DÜI-Sen)