Böcker av Harvey Starr

This book sets out, through Starr¿s personal story, his interest in how the ideas of ¿intellectual trajectories¿ and ¿political memories¿ could be incorporated into intellectual autobiography, thus exploring how the personal lives of individual academics intersected with their professional interests. By following the development of his approach to research, interdisciplinarity, the logic of inquiry, and the opportunity and willingness framework scholars and researchers will see how his groundbreaking research in Conflict Processes and International Relations Theory developed and were interlinked (especially diffusion, geography and spatiality; the democratic peace and integration; decision making). In addition, graduate students and junior faculty should find useful hints about how to navigate their way through the complexities of becoming both a professional and successful academic and scholar.¿ This book provides the most complete treatment of the work and contributions of Harvey Starr, a former President of the International Studies Association. ¿ Important for contemporary students of international relations, and their understanding of IR theory and methods.¿ Demonstrates an eclectic linking of theoretical, logical, and empirical approaches to the study of IR¿providing a critical logic of inquiry to do research.¿ Provides insights and blueprints for how to develop interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scholarship, highlighting geography and social-psychology.¿ Affords graduate students and recent Ph.D.s guidance in the development of research, becoming a professional, and the choices to be made in one¿s academic career.

Through the use of logic, simulation, and empirical data, Benjamin A. Most and Harvey Starr develop and demonstrate a nuanced and more appropriate conceptualization of explanation in international relations and foreign policy in Inquiry, Logic, and International Politics. They demonstrate that a concern with the logical underpinnings of research raises a series of theoretical, conceptual, and epistemological issues that must be addressed if theory and research design are to meet the challenges of cumulation in the study of international relations (or any area of social science). The authors argue for understanding the critical, yet subtle, interplay of the elements with a research triad composed of theory, logic, and method.

Explores themes of spatiality geopolitical and territoriality as they connect to international affairs.

In the ROUTLEDGE ADVANCES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND POLITICS series, this work examines the ontology of agency and the structure in the international system and derives a theoretical framework for the empirical analysis of international relations from these ontological considerations.

Henry Kissinger conducted American foreign policy with a distinctive assurance and panache that gave dramatic force to his tenure as secretary of state.