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Book SynopsisCritical Approaches to International Relations: Philosophical Foundations and Current Debates explores the achievements of a wide variety of critical approaches in International Relations theory, discusses the barrage of criticism and theoretical openings they levied against the IR orthodoxy, and suggests future potential critical IR scholarship to improve not only our explanatory possibilities, but also our ethical and practical horizons.
In line with its broad objective, this book examines a number of influential approaches within critical IR scholarship, including core strands of critical IR theory such as Marxism, post-structuralism, Feminism, post-colonialism, and green politics, as well as some sub-school approaches such as Marxist theories of imperialism, dependency perspective, uneven and combined development and non-western IR theory.
Contributors are: M. Kürşad Özekin, Engin Sune, Çağdaş Özeniş, Gözde Turan, Mine Nur Küçük, Neslihan Dikmen Alsancak, Zeynep Arıöz, Pınar Akgül, and Altuğ Günar.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction Foundations of International Relations Theory
M. Kürşad Özekin and Engin Sune
2 Relevance and Contributions of Marxism as a Critical ir Theory
Engin Sune and M. Kürşad Özekin
3 Imperialism as a Critical Theory of ir
Engin Sune
4 The Achievements of Dependency Approach as a Critical ir Theory
M. Kürşad Özekin
5 Uneven and Combined Development A Dialectical and International Theory of Social Change
Çağdaş Özeniş
6 Poststructuralism and the Poststructuralist Turn in ir
Gözde Turan
7 Postcolonial Approaches in International Relations
Mine Nur Küçük
8 International Political Sociology and International Relations
Neslihan Dikmen Alsancak
9 Feminism and the Discipline of International Relations
Zeynep Arıöz
10 Non-Western International Relations Theories
Pınar Akgül
11 Green Theory in ir A Theory for a Green World
Altuğ Günar
12 Epilogue
Engin Sune and M. Kürşad Özekin
Index
