International studies: interdisciplinary approaches

Presenting International Studies as a wide, plural and inherently interdisciplinary field of research, this book shows its links with philosophy, peace research, history, geography, globalization studies, international political economy, political psychology, sociology and social theory, linguistics, strategicor war studies and anthropology. PAMI AALTO is Jean Monnet Professor in the School of Management, and Director of the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence at the University of Tampere, Finland. He has worked on the interface of IR, political geography, psychology and sociology; and in interdisciplinary fields such as energy research, European studies and post-Soviet studies. VILHO HARLE is Professor of International Relations at the University of Tampere, Finland. He specializes in political and international theory and history of ideas, peace and conflict studiesand conflict resolution, and political geography. His publications include 'Ideas of Social Order in the Ancient World' and 'The Enemy with a Thousand Faces'. SAMI MOISIO is Professor of Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland. He works on the interface between geography and political science and has written extensively on issues of political geography, European integration and state transformation. INDICE: PART I: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES - Introduction; 'P.Aalto, V.Harle, D.Long' &' S.Moisio - 'Interdisciplinarity and the Study of International Relations;' D.Long - 'Organizing Interdisciplinary International Studies: from Puzzlement to Research Programmes; 'P.Aalto - 'Towards Interdisciplinary Research Programmes in International Studies: the Frankfurt School, the English School and Peace Research as Models; 'V.Harle - 'PART II: LEVELS OF ANALYSIS - Geographies of the International System: Globalization, Empire and the Anthropocene;'S.Dalby - 'Beyond the Domestic-International Divide: State Spatial Transformation as Neoliberal Geopolitics; 'S.Moisio - 'The Human Subject in International Studies: an Outline for Interdisciplinary Research Programmes; 'P.Aalto - 'PART III: CONCEPTS - Power in International Relations: an Interdisciplinary Perspective; 'T.Forsberg - 'War: from Disciplinarity to Multidisciplinarity and further to Transdisciplinarity; 'P.Drulák - 'PART IV: END COMMENT - End Comment: the Practices of Interdisciplinarity; 'I.B.Neumann'

• ISBN: 978-0-230-28234-6
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 15/07/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés