TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spindler, Manuela
AB  - The book is written for active learners ñ those keen on cutting their own path through the complex and at times hardly comprehensible world of THEORY in International Relations. To aid this process as much as possible, this book employs the didactical and methodical concept of integrating teaching and self-study.  The criteria for structured learning about IR theory will be derived from an extensive discussion of the questions and problems of philosophy of science (Part 1). Theory of IR refers to the scientific study of IR and covers all of the following subtopics: the role and status of theory in the academic discipline of IR; the understanding of IR as a science and what a "scientific" theory is; the different assumptions upon which theory building in IR is based; the different types of theoretical constructions and models of explanations found at the heart of particular theories.
DO  - 10.3224/84740005
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1007712
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22471
KW  - Political Science and International Studies
KW  - International Relations Theory
KW  - Metatheory
KW  - Philosophy of science in IR
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22471/1/1007712.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22471/1/1007712.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28620
PB  - Verlag Barbara Budrich
PP  - Leverkusen-Opladen
PY  - 2013-04-10
SN  - 9783847400059
TI  - International Relations : A Self-Study Guide to Theory
ER  - 
