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| isolated freak | Posted
on 26-Oct-03 06:16 AM
The best IR site: http://www.isn.ethz.ch |
| isolated freak | Posted
on 26-Oct-03 06:17 AM
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| Junu | Posted
on 26-Oct-03 08:53 AM
Thank you IF jiu for the great link. It will certainly help me to write my senior research paper. |
| isolated freak | Posted
on 26-Oct-03 09:06 AM
You are most welcome, Junu. What's your senior thesis on? Just curious. Anyways, good luck with your thesis. |
| Junu | Posted
on 26-Oct-03 09:54 AM
I am thinking to focus on "Gender and Human Security in a Globalized World" . What do you think about this? I have been taking so many classes related to this topics. Happy Dipawali Junu |
| Lalupate*Joban | Posted
on 26-Oct-03 11:12 AM
Gender and Human Security in World Politics - that sounds like a topic inspired by the feminist school of IR (a highly marginalized branch of IR, I must say). In terms of an IR research agenda for a senior thesis, I think pitting neo-realism (a la Waltz, Walt, Betts, Mearsheimer et al.), the hegemonic discourse in IR, against neoliberal institutionalism (a la Keohane, Martin et al.) or constructivism (a la Wendt) in terms of a certain issue area would be the best. Or alternately, one could pit one neo-realist theory against another. Personally, I am somewhat skeptical about the relevance of the feminist IR literature to international security, but then it's a neo-realist speaking. (And one probably cannot escape being a neo-realist when almost all your classes are in the building that neo-realist stalwarts like Ken Waltz and Dick Betts inhabit.) |
| isolated freak | Posted
on 27-Oct-03 08:14 AM
Junu, You might find the book, The Globalization of World Politics helpful. It has a whole chapter on feminist perspective on IR. Being a Realist myslef, I will also suggest what Lalupate Jovan suggested. Why not look at a certain issue and analyze it from a neo-Realist's (or Offensive Realists, as Mershiemer likes to call) perspective. Just a suggetsion. |
| Lalupate*Joban | Posted
on 29-Oct-03 06:22 PM
"Why not look at a certain issue and analyze it from a neo-Realist's (or Offensive Realists, as Mershiemer likes to call) perspective." Isolated Freak, Mearsheimer calls himself an offensive realist (and other IR scholars rightly recognize him as the main torchbearer of offensive realism), but he does not call neo-Realists as a whole offensive realists. He very well acknowledges that there are two streams in the neo-realist literature: defensive realism, and his offensive realism. If I remember correctly, he distinguishes the two strands of neo-realism quite clearly in "The False Promise of International institutions" - his controversial International Security article (Winter 1994/1995). [What I love about Mearsheimer is his penchant for sticking his neck out and provoking a whole new wave of hot academic discussions. One has to give credit to the man for that, whether one buys his arguments or not.] |