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The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory
Nicolas Guilhot
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Paperback. Editor(s): Guilhot, Nicolas. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 420. Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory. 312 pages. Editor(s): Guilhot, Nicolas. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight: 418.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231152679
SKU
V9780231152679
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About Nicolas Guilhot
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.
Reviews for The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory
This work is a classic and will surely be required reading for doctoral qualifying exams and graduate-level international relations theory courses... Essential. Choice ...an intriguing book about an important, if slightly baffling, episode in the intellectual history of International Relations...
Ian Hall International Affairs ...a text that will be indispensable for the training of graduate students in IR and ... Read more
Ian Hall International Affairs ...a text that will be indispensable for the training of graduate students in IR and ... Read more