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Positivist and Political-Economic Theories of International Relations Liberal-Pluralist and Radical Dimensions
This book provides an introduction to positivist-pluralist theories of international relations (IR) which emerged during the early-and mid-1950s along with Marxist political economic and non-Marxist economic theories of IR.
Positivist and Political-Economic Theories of International Relations is an in-depth critical study of texts and literature which highlight IR’s methodological pluralism even after it gained maturity. It examines how pluralist political status quo and radical economic criticism coexist in discrete areas of the discipline. Insights are provided into key positivist liberal-pluralist theories, namely decision-making approaches, and theories of integration, regionalism, interdependence, and regime. It discusses the four political economic and critical theories of Marxism, dependency, world systems, and international political economy.
The book, as an advanced supplementary reader, will be of great interest to researchers and students of international relations, history, law, and the multidisciplinary social scientific field of political economy.
Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Part I: Positivist Liberal-Pluralist Theories 1. Introduction 2. Decision-making Theory: From Snyder to Allison and After 3. Integration Theory: The Four Schools and Beyond 4. Theories of Regionalism: Early, Old and New 5. Theories of Interdependence 6. Regime Theory Part II—Political-Economic and Radical Theories 7. Marxism and Its Variants in International Relations Theory 8. Dependency Theory 9. World Systems Theory 10. International Political Economy. Index.
Biography
Amartya Mukhopadhyay is former Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department and Dean, Faculty of Arts and Commerce at Kalyani University, India; and former Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department, Calcutta University, India. His research interests include political theory, political thought, IR theory, policy studies, cultural politics, and the sociology of literature. His recent publications include, Politics, Society and Colonialism: An Alternative Understanding of Tagore’s Responses (2010); India in Russian Orientalism: Travel Narratives and Beyond (2013); (as editor) Contextualizing Democratic Governance in India: Some Perspectives (2013); and Tura, Trisha and Debang-er Galpo [Stories of Tura, Trisha and Debang] (2023).
