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The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory Paperback - 2011

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  • Title The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory
  • Author Nicolas Guilhot (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press
  • Date 2011-01-05
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780231152679 / 0231152671
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.8 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (22.35 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
  • Library of Congress subjects Rockefeller Foundation, International relations - Philosophy -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010022746
  • Dewey Decimal Code 327.101

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Nicolas Guilhot is senior research associate at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the author of The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order.
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Paperback / softback. New. The 1954 Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, featured a who's who of scholars and practitioners debating the foundations of international relations theory. Assembling his own team of experts, all of whom have struggled with this legacy, Nicolas Guilhot revisits a seminal event and its odd rejection of scientific rationalism. Far from being a spontaneous development, these essays argue, the emergence of a "realist" approach to international politics, later codified at the conference, was deliberately triggered by the Rockefeller Foundation. The organization was an early advocate of scholars who opposed the idea of a "science" of politics, pursuing, for the sake of disciplinary autonomy, a vision of politics as a prerational and existential dimension that could not be "solved" by scientific means. As a result, this nascent theory was more a rejection of behavioral social science than the… Read More
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