This book develops a discourse theory of crisis and change in global politics. Crisis is
conceptualized as structural dislocation, resting on difference and incompleteness. Change …

Drawn from the philosophy of science, metatheory is generally defined in International
Relations (IR) as 'theorizing about theory'by examining a theory's ontology or epistemology …

Abstract Concepts are a key feature of academic research and international politics. Despite
the fact that interpreting, classifying and communicating the world through concepts has far …

This edited volume offers a systematic evaluation of how knowledge is produced by
scholarly research into International Relations. The contributors explore three key questions …

With his 1977 seminal article “An American Social Science: International Relations”(1977),
Stanley Hoffman laid out his now (in) famous argument about the distinct American …

Drawing on the rigorous reading of Social Identity Theory (SIT), this paper reconstructs the
ideational sources of Kazakhstan's status seeking by identifying the Kazakhstani perception …

This chapter engages with challenges of intralingual translation within the area of
International Relations (IR) meta-theory. While most contributions to IR meta-theory assume …

The nature of the debates surrounding international relations (IR) as a social science have
pointed to issues of ontology, epistemology, methodology, philosophy of science, history …

Özet Bu tez bir disiplin olarak Uİ'nin krizde olup olmadığı ve bu krizler üzerinden sonunun
gelip gelmediğini sorgulamaktadır. Bu sorgulama neticesinde çalışmanın iddiası/tezi Uİ'nin …

This book argues that our current lack of recognising and understanding the different forms
meta-theorising takes hampers the ways in which fruitful engagement between meta …