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New. The 1954 Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, featured a who's who of scholars and practitioners debating the foundations of international relations theory. Assembling his own team of experts, all of whom have struggled with this legacy, Nicolas Guilhot revisits a seminal event and its odd rejection of scientific rationalism. Far from being a spontaneous development, these essays argue, the emergence of a "realist" approach to international politics, later codified at the conference, was deliberately triggered by the Rockefeller Foundation. The organization was an early advocate of scholars who opposed the idea of a "science" of politics, pursuing, for the sake of disciplinary autonomy, a vision of politics as a prerational and existential dimension that could not be "solved" by scientific means. As a result, this nascent theory was more a rejection of behavioral social science than the birth of one of its…
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The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory Hardcover - 2011
by Nicolas Guilhot (Editor)
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- Title The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory
- Author Nicolas Guilhot (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 312
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 2011-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780231152662 / 0231152663
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- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Library of Congress subjects Rockefeller Foundation, International relations - Philosophy -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010022746
- Dewey Decimal Code 327.101
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