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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

Examines the politics of Islam and the state in Indonesia over recent decades, during which time there has been a notable resurgence of Islamic political movements. Australian author from Australian National University.