1st Edition
Alker and IR Global Studies in an Interconnected World
About the Authors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction - Renée Marlin-Bennett and Thomas J. Biersteker 2. Human Nature and World Politics: Ecce Hayward Alker's Homo Politicus as Homo Humanitatis - Neta C. Crawford 3. On the Nature of Empirical Evidence - Renée Marlin-Bennett 4. A Fairy Tale of Science: Playing with Hayward Alker - L.H.M. Ling 5. Arguing Gender and International Relations: A Dialectical-Hermeneutical Approach - Laura Sjoberg 6. World Orders in Central Asia - Tahir Amin 7. Dialectics of Civilizations: A Cosmic Perspective - Heikki Patomäki 8. "Modern Order/Disorder": Notes for a Future Archeologist - Nicholas Onuf 9. Two Dilemmas of Democracy in the 21st Century - Ijaz Shafi Gilani 10. Alkerian Reformulations of Metaphor and IR - Eric M. Blanchard 11. Authentic Methods for Emancipatory Peace Research: Alker’s Legacy in Relatus and Pragmatic Analysis - Gavan Duffy 12. "Hi-Tech Hermeneutics": Combining Rigor and Alternative Epistemologies of Social Science - David Sylvan Afterword - J. Ann Tickner
Biography
Renée Marlin-Bennett is Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Food Fights: International Regimes and the Politics of Agricultural Trade Disputes (published by Routledge) and Knowledge Power: Intellectual Property, Information, and Privacy.






