International relations theory: a peripheral perspective. Part 1

In an article first published in 1977, Stanley Hoffmann callad international relations a "(North)American social science". His diagnosis regarding the national origina of the discipline as a field of social-scientific enquiry, and the causes for the predominant role of u.s. academia in its...

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Autor principal: Escudé, Carlos
Formato: Documento de trabajo acceptedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella 1993
Materias:
Relaciones internacionales
International relations
Realismo periférico
Peripheral realism
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spelling I57-R163-20.500.13098-128582024-11-28T15:15:31Z International relations theory: a peripheral perspective. Part 1 Escudé, Carlos Relaciones internacionales International relations Realismo periférico Peripheral realism In an article first published in 1977, Stanley Hoffmann callad international relations a "(North)American social science". His diagnosis regarding the national origina of the discipline as a field of social-scientific enquiry, and the causes for the predominant role of u.s. academia in its development are, in my modest view, very much on target. What Hoffmann did not perceive, nonetheless, is that however understandable the causes of this phenomenon may be, the uncritical importation into the Third World of theories of international relations coined mainly in the United States has done a lot of damage. This is notan expression of a naive nationalism, anti-Americanism or anti-imperialism. In the following five theoretical chapters I shall attempt to show that the ethnocentric quality of u.s. international relations theory, misread and ill-applied to the foreign policies of peripheral states, has sometimes seriously misguided Third World governments. I will be focusing on the case of Argentina, but my argumente can be applied to several other Third World examples. Este Documento forma parte de la serie Working Papers (ISSN 0327-9588), publicada por la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella entre 1993 y 2001 1993 2024-07-04T22:33:48Z 2024-07-04T22:33:48Z 1993 info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/12858 eng Working Papers (ISSN: 0327-9588) info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ar/ 161 p. application/pdf application/pdf Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
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International relations
Realismo periférico
Peripheral realism
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International relations
Realismo periférico
Peripheral realism
Escudé, Carlos
International relations theory: a peripheral perspective. Part 1
topic_facet Relaciones internacionales
International relations
Realismo periférico
Peripheral realism
description In an article first published in 1977, Stanley Hoffmann callad international relations a "(North)American social science". His diagnosis regarding the national origina of the discipline as a field of social-scientific enquiry, and the causes for the predominant role of u.s. academia in its development are, in my modest view, very much on target. What Hoffmann did not perceive, nonetheless, is that however understandable the causes of this phenomenon may be, the uncritical importation into the Third World of theories of international relations coined mainly in the United States has done a lot of damage. This is notan expression of a naive nationalism, anti-Americanism or anti-imperialism. In the following five theoretical chapters I shall attempt to show that the ethnocentric quality of u.s. international relations theory, misread and ill-applied to the foreign policies of peripheral states, has sometimes seriously misguided Third World governments. I will be focusing on the case of Argentina, but my argumente can be applied to several other Third World examples.
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