The fearful sphere of international relations - Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach, The Elusive Quest: Theory and International Politics, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988, 300 pp; - R. B. J. Walker, One World, Many Worlds: Struggles For A Just World Peace, Lynne Reiner, Colerado, 1988, 175 pp; - James Der Derian and Michael Shapiro (eds.), International/Intertextual Relations: Post Modern Readings of World Politics, Lexington: Lexington Books, 1989, 353 pp; - James Tully (ed.), Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988, 353 pp.

1990 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. J. Rengger
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Politics ◽  
World Politics ◽  
World Peace ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Just World ◽  
University Of South Carolina ◽  
Many Worlds

International Relations and the Challenge of Postmodernism: Defending the Discipline. By D. S. L. Jarvis, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. 288p. $34.95.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-260
Author(s):  
Jeffrey W. Taliaferro
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
International Relations ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
University Of South Carolina ◽  
New Politics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Sociological Approaches

Over the past twenty years, the so-called third debate, or the constructivist turn in international relations theory, has elic- ited a great deal of attention. Various critical theories and epistemologies-sociological approaches, postmodernism, constructivism, neo-Marxism, feminist approaches, and cul- tural theories-seem to dominate the leading international relations journals. Postmodernism (also called critical theo- ry), perhaps the most radical wave of the third debate, uses literary theory to challenge the notion of an "objective" reality in world politics, reject the notion of legitimate social science, and seek to overturn the so-called dominant dis- courses in the field in favor of a new politics that will give voice to previously marginalized groups.

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