Title:
A new science of international relations : modernity, complexity and the Kosovo conflict / Damian Popolo.
Author:
Popolo, Damian.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and index(p. 229-237).
Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Three Research Questions -- Three Balkan Stories -- The Architecture of an Argument -- 1. Complexity and the Modern Episteme: Epistemological Outline of a New Science -- Introduction: French Philosophy and the Modern Episteme -- The Thought of Henri Bergson -- Bergson and Complexity Science: Ilya Prigogine -- A (Short) Genesis of Complexity -- Complexity, Post-Structuralism, and the Modern Episteme -- Conclusion -- 2. An Archaeology of Modernity -- Introduction -- The Modern Episteme -- Discourse Formation in the Modern Empirical Sciences -- Science and Fragmentation: The End of Empiricism -- The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science -- Conclusion
3. Complexity, International Relations and Ethics from an Epistemic Perspective -- Introduction: Science as the new Metaphysics in Transcendental Philosophies of the Object -- An Archaeology of International Relations (IR) Theory: From Raymond Aron to Kenneth Waltz -- Neorealist IR as a Modern Empirical Science -- IR's Understanding of the Kosovo Crisis and the Role of Critical Geopolitics -- Complexity, Ethics and the Analytic of Finitude Metaphysical Law and Ethical Categorisations -- Conclusion -- Intermezzo A Roadmap to an Argument -- 4. International Relations and Modern Interpretations of the Kosovo Crisis -- Ethno-Diplomacy and International Relations -- Fighting Ugly: Doing Good by Doing Evil -- The Evolution of Humanitarian Intervention -- Conclusion: Epistemic Considerations on the Key Debates
5. Legal-Ethical Frameworks on Kosovo, Modern Analytical Finitude at Work -- Introduction -- NATO and the International Court of Justice -- NATO and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia -- Another Failed Jurisdiction: The European Court of Human Rights -- Conclusion: Universal Exclusion and the Complexity Ethic -- 6. Ancient Ethnic Hatreds -- Introduction: Complexity and Six Hundred Years of Non-Linear History -- Living in the Past, in the Present: Apprehensions of Time in Nationalist Discourse -- The Banality of Ethnic Conflict and Immanent Power Struggles -- Clashes of Modernities: Apprehensions of Time in Reaction to Nationalist Discourse -- Conclusion: Historical Linearity at Work -- 7. Conclusion: International Relations, Complexity and the Kosovo Crisis.
Publisher:
Ashgate Pub. Co.,
Publication Place:
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT :
ISBN:
9781409412267 (hardback : alk. paper)
1409412261 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781409412274 (ebook)
140941227X (ebook)
Subject:
International relations -- Decision making
Complexity (Philosophy)
Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Diplomatic history.
Kosovo (Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1980-2008.
Relations internationales -- Prise de décision.
Complexité (Philosophie).
Guerre du Kosovo, 1998-1999 -- Histoire diplomatique.
Kosovo (Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1980-2008.
Kosovo -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1980-2008.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Political and social views.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Pensée politique et sociale.
Contents:
Introduction -- Three Research Questions -- Three Balkan Stories -- The Architecture of an Argument -- Complexity and the Modern Episteme: Epistemological Outline of a New Science -- Introduction: French Philosophy and the Modern Episteme -- The Thought of Henri Bergson -- Bergson and Complexity Science: Ilya Prigogine -- A (Short) Genesis of Complexity -- Complexity, Post-Structuralism, and the Modern Episteme -- Conclusion -- An Archaeology of Modernity -- Introduction -- The Modern Episteme -- Discourse Formation in the Modern Empirical Sciences -- Science and Fragmentation: The End of Empiricism -- The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science -- Conclusion
Complexity, International Relations and Ethics from an Epistemic Perspective -- Introduction: Science as the new Metaphysics in Transcendental Philosophies of the Object -- An Archaeology of International Relations (IR) Theory: From Raymond Aron to Kenneth Waltz -- Neorealist IR as a Modern Empirical Science -- IR's Understanding of the Kosovo Crisis and the Role of Critical Geopolitics -- Complexity, Ethics and the Analytic of Finitude Metaphysical Law and Ethical Categorisations -- Conclusion -- Intermezzo A Roadmap to an Argument -- International Relations and Modern Interpretations of the Kosovo Crisis -- Ethno-Diplomacy and International Relations -- Fighting Ugly: Doing Good by Doing Evil -- The Evolution of Humanitarian Intervention -- Conclusion: Epistemic Considerations on the Key Debates
Legal-Ethical Frameworks on Kosovo, Modern Analytical Finitude at Work -- Introduction -- NATO and the International Court of Justice -- NATO and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia -- Another Failed Jurisdiction: The European Court of Human Rights -- Conclusion: Universal Exclusion and the Complexity Ethic -- Ancient Ethnic Hatreds -- Introduction: Complexity and Six Hundred Years of Non-Linear History -- Living in the Past, in the Present: Apprehensions of Time in Nationalist Discourse -- The Banality of Ethnic Conflict and Immanent Power Struggles -- Clashes of Modernities: Apprehensions of Time in Reaction to Nationalist Discourse -- Conclusion: Historical Linearity at Work -- Conclusion: International Relations, Complexity and the Kosovo Crisis.
Physical Description:
vi, 237 p. ;
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Publication Date:
c2011.
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