Bøger af 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.

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

Through the use of logic, simulation, and empirical data, Most and Starr develop and demonstrate a new and more appropriate conceptualization of explanation in international relations and foreign policy. 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 are to meet the challenges of cumulation in the study of international relations. The authors argue for understanding the critical, yet subtle, interplay of the elements within a research triad composed of theory, logic and method.

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