POLS 4730 Chapter Notes - Chapter Mohammed Ayoob: Mohammed Ayoob, List Of Ongoing Armed Conflicts, Historical Sociology
23 Jul 2018
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Inequality and theorizing in international relations: the case for subaltern realism . I use international relations to refer to the subject of our analysis and international relations to describe the discipline that aspires to study the subject. In social science terms, it argues for broadening the universe from which data are selected to generate theoretical propositions: at the same time, it is a plea for less theory and more perspective. I believe the perspective must also demonstrate the capacity to provide intellectually satisfactory explanations for the origins of the majority of contemporary conflicts in the international system. In addition, such a perspective must be able to transcend the ethnocentrism of neoliberalism that limits its universe largely to one corner of the globe. January 23rd, 2018: consequently, the road map for weak states is not to transcend the westphalian state and adopt post-
