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Resurrecting a Discipline completes a trilogy in which George Liska, renowned scholar of international relations, encapsulates a lifetime of inquiry into past and present world politics. This final book examines the future of politics in general and of the discipline of international relations in particular, seeking a theory that combines the two. The author takes as his starting point former Secretary of State Dean Achesons call for a usable theory of international politics, integrating selections from his own many books on politics, world history, and international relations with analysis of the present and speculation on the future state of scholarship. Scholars of international relations, world politics, and political history will find this book a valuable addition to their collections.
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Resurrecting a Discipline : Enduring Scholarship for Evolving World Politics
author
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Liska, George.
publisher
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Lexington Books
isbn10 | asin
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0739100661
print isbn13
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9780739100660
ebook isbn13
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9780585080536
language
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English
subject
World politics--20th century--Historiography.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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D443.L4966 1999eb
ddc
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327.1/01
subject
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World politics--20th century--Historiography.
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Resurrecting a Discipline
Enduring Scholarship for Evolving World Politics
George Liska
LEXINGTON BOOKS Lanham Boulder New York Oxford
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LEXINGTON BOOKS
Published in the United States of America by Lexington Books 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Maryland 20706
12 Hid's Copse Road Cumnor Hill, Oxford OX2 9JJ, England
Copyright 1999 by Lexington Books
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Liska, George. Resurrecting a discipline : enduring scholarship for evolving world politics / George Liska. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-7391-0066-1 (cloth : alk. paper). ISBN 0-7391-0067-X (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. World politics20th centuryHistoriography. I. Title. D443.L4966 1999 327.1'01dc21 99-21500 CIP
Printed in the United States of America
TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.
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CONTENTS
Preface
v
Introduction Challenge to the Scribes
1
Part I Interactions: Balance of Power and Alliances
15
Part II Impulsions: Expansion and Consolidation
115
Part III Inner Economy: Political Physics and Poetics
209
Part IV Imperatives and Imagination: Theory vs. Theorization
239
Part V Statecraft for the Future: Diagnosis and Prognosis
323
Conclusion Compounding Historical with Theoretical Sense
345
Comprehensive Bibliography of the Author's Works
355
Index
357
About the Author
361
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PREFACE
Like any other discipline concerned with human affairs, that of international relations is assured of lastingly renewable purpose if, inspired by real-world events, it refines their course into a thought-provoking perspective that enlightens the attentive student and can be of use to the intellectually alert actor. Since, even were it possible, a formally perfect theory is not necessary for meeting the two irreducible requisites of academically legitimate discipline, an appropriate method of inquiry into a substantively valid subject, the methodological issue is scaled down to considering the kind of theorization that is sufficient. Such as it is or can be, its utility for the statesman must be compared with that of more ambitious theories proffered by the academe. What can the imaginary practitioner do with the structuralist hypothesis apart from submitting to the apparently inescapable? Or will safely do with the arguable proposition that the likelihood of war increases with the number of pre-war alliances? Or again, might operationally do with the suggestion that world politics is henceforth a matter of defining national identities in lieu of testing and promoting national interests? Furthermore, does knowledge of this kindif it is knowledge to begin withmake the student of world politics a better educated observer and if necessary more incisive critic? Might not making history more attractive by making it operationally relevant for immediately critical issues foster at one and the same time the cultural-educational role and the societal-utilitarian mission of the discipline of international relations? Especially if, and provided that, relating theory to propositions from history forces shaping the investigation into conformity with the norms and patterns of real politics?
These are the questions implied in the first two volumes, and now explicitly if still tentatively answered in this final volume, of an unplanned trilogy, that winds up as the conceptual mainstay of the lately published four-volume cycle, a long effort dedicated to a sympathetic understanding of world politics as it took shape in the course of the second half of the
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twentieth century, largely preoccupied with an epoch-marking conflict. The first two volumes of the trilogy have drawn on and built upon the earlier works to formulate a previously only implicit system of thought and, incidentally, to clarify also to myself the process of thematic and personal evolution involved in the enterprise. This very last of my many "last" books tries to set right the earlier neglect of the concerns regarding the present and future of the discipline itself. It collects the several ingredients recalled from the originally formative works, applied to the selfish object of my own understanding, into a prescription for the long-term survival of a field in danger of sharing with the real world the uncertainties this world projects into one significant, but only contingently necessary, mode of its representation.
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