European Approaches to International Relations Theory A house with many mansions

• Main Author: Friedrichs, Jörg
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2004; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: New International Relations
• Subjects: International Relations; International Relations Theory; Politics & International Relations; United States; IR Discipline; Constructivist Middle Ground; American Social Science; International Society Approach; Liberal IR Theory; Transnational Market Economy; american; IR Scholar; American IR; constructivist; society; IR Textbook; Nordic Scholars; academic; European IR; EU Treaty Reform; IR Community; periphery; french; Academic IR; social; French IR; Transnational Managerial Class; Academic Peripheries; community; Intellectual Hegemony; British IR; UK's Relationship; Nordic Authors; science; IR Theory; Liberation War; Post-international World; EU Study; communities
• ISBN: 9780415459884; 0415332656; 9780415332651; 0415459885
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203495551

A well-established community of American scholars has long dominated the discipline of international relations. Recently, however, certain strands of continental theorizing are being introduced into the mainstream. This is a critical examination of European approaches to international relations theory, suggesting practical ways of challenging manistream thought. Freidrichs presents a detailed sociological analysis of knowledge production in existing European IR communities, namely France, Italy and Scandinavia. He also discusses a selection of European schools and approaches.