Mind the gap: IR and the challenge of international politics

• Lucarelli, Sonia ^[3] ; Moro, Francesco N. ^[5] ; Sicurelli, Daniela ^[1] ; Monteleone, Carla ^[2] ; Baroncelli, Eugenia ^[4]
  1. [1] University of Trento

     University of Trento

     Trento, Italia

     
  2. [2] University of Palermo

     University of Palermo

     Palermo, Italia

     
  3. [3] University of Bologna

     University of Bologna

     Bolonia, Italia

     
  4. [4] Universiy of Bologna
  5. [5] University of Milan-Bicocca

  Mostrar afiliaciones +
• Localización: Rivista italiana di scienza politica, ISSN 0048-8402, ISSN-e 2057-4908, Vol. 45, Nº. 1, 2015, págs. 79-101
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1017/ipo.2015.4
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • The discipline of International Relations (IR) for a long time of its history has developed in the form of Great Debates that involved competing paradigms and schools. More recently, it has been described as a cacophony of voices unable to communicate among themselves, but also incapable to provide keys to understand an ever more complex reality. This collection aims at evaluating the heuristic value of a selection of traditional paradigms (realism and liberalism), schools (constructivism), and subdisciplines (security studies and international political economy) so as to assess the challenges before IR theory today and the ability of the discipline to provide tools to make the changed world still intelligible.