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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 October 2009
      22 August 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511586392
      9780521554039
      9780521556354
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511586392
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.55kg, 308 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 308 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in International Relations (47)
      Subjects:
      Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in International Relations (47)
    Subjects:
    Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
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    In this 1996 book Roger Spegele argues that in the past international theorists have failed to recognise that there is not one conception of international relations, subdivided into different theories and approaches, but at least three wholly different conceptions of the subject. Though scholars are increasingly prepared to accept this, there is still no consensus about what to call these conceptions, how to describe them, and why they should be studied. This book attempts to fill this gap. The author first examines two conceptions of IR - positivism-empiricism and emancipatory international relations - which challenge political realism. He then defends a revised version of realism, called 'evaluative political realism', from challenges arising from its rivals, with the aim of defining a conception of political realism which is coherent, viable, and attractive.

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    "...Spegele's ordering principles are useful, and persuasive, and his treatment of every perspective appropriately critical....this erudite and well-crafted study lives up to its advance billing as a coherent, viable, and attractive defense of realism." Robert M.A. Crawford, American Political Science Review

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