International Relations' Last Synthesis?: Decoupling Constructivist and Critical Approaches

by Laura Sjoberg, J Samuel Barkin, J. Samuel Barkin

Many scholars, intentionally or unintentionally, have entangled constructivisms and critical theories in problematic ways, either by assigning a critical-theoretical politics to constructivisms or by assuming the appropriateness of constructivist epistemology and methods for critical theorizing. IR's Last Synthesis? makes the argument that these connections mirror IR's grand theoretical syntheses of the 1980s and 1990s and have similar constraining...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190463422
• ISBN13: 9780190463427
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.7"