Forget post-positivist' IR!: The legacy of IR theory as the locus for a pragmatist turn

Cooperation and Conflict

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 147-177

  Rytövuori Apunen, Helena ^a,b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Department of Political Science and International Relations ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

(Post )Positivist IR; Critical IR; Disciplinary 'orthodoxy'; Disciplinary development and reconstruction of theory; Pragmatism and IR; Theory centred knowledge and taxinomia

Indexed keywords

EID: 30444447976     PISSN: 00108367     EISSN: 14603691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010836705052240     Document Type: Review

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