Agents, Structures and International Relations : Politics as Ontology

Name: Agents, Structures and International Relations
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521857529
Price: 20500 KES
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ISBN: 9780521857529

by Colin Wight

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in International Relations

ISBN-10 052185752X

ISBN-13 9780521857529

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 12th, 2006

Print length 360 Pages

Weight 687 grams

Dimensions 23.90 x 15.30 x 2.70 cms

Product Classification: Social & political philosophy International relations Social and political philosophy

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This 2006 book analyses the agent-structure problem and argues there are many gaps in IR theory that can only be understood through ontology - the metaphysical study of existence and reality. He integrates international relations theory with social theory, stressing the problem is an issue of concern to the wider human sciences.

The agent-structure problem is a much discussed issue in the field of international relations. In his comprehensive 2006 analysis of this problem, Colin Wight deconstructs the accounts of structure and agency embedded within differing IR theories and, on the basis of this analysis, explores the implications of ontology - the metaphysical study of existence and reality. Wight argues that there are many gaps in IR theory that can only be understood by focusing on the ontological differences that construct the theoretical landscape. By integrating the treatment of the agent-structure problem in IR theory with that in social theory, Wight makes a positive contribution to the problem as an issue of concern to the wider human sciences. At the most fundamental level politics is concerned with competing visions of how the world is and how it should be, thus politics is ontology.

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