Politics and Society in the South. By Earl Black and Merle Black. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. 363p. $25.00 cloth, $10.00 paper. - The South's New Politics: Realignment and Dealignment. Edited by Robert H. Swansbrough and David M. Brodsky. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. 330p. $34.95 cloth. - Arkansas Politics and Government: Do the People Rule? By Diane D. Blair. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. 362p. $25.95 cloth, $15.95 paper.

1990 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 985-986
Author(s):  
James L. Guth
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
The South ◽  
University Of South Carolina ◽  
Politics And Government ◽  
New Politics ◽  
The People

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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