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IR fourth debate : pluralistic or hegemonic ? limitations to “Bridging the Gap”
Author
Source
Algerian Review of Security and Developement
Issue
Vol. 2011, Issue 1 (31 Jul. 2011), pp.1-21, 21 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2011-07-31
Country of Publication
Algeria
No. of Pages
21
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This article aims at questioning the claim, recently, that IR discipline has become more pluralistic than ever.
This claim is grounded in the belief that IR, during the post–third–debate area, has managed to get rid of the grip of the binary positioning within the subsequent “great debates.” It is argued that the constructivist research project, attempting at bridging the reflectivist–rationalist gap through a middle grounded theory, has pushed the field into a non–hegemonic/pluralistic area characterized by an unusual non–binary positioning, labeled as a fourth debate between constructivism, reflectivism and rationalism.
The article argues that the epistemological division among constructivists, inherited from the third debate itself, has posed some very limitations to the field’s ambition towards pluralism during the fourth debate, as if the field has been reproducing the same features of the positivist–post-positivist divide during the third debate.
In other words, constructivism has become stereotypically trapped by the same unbridgeable divide between two epistemologically incommensurables, rationalist–constructivists and reflectivist–constructivists.
This debating pattern has reproduced “another” third debate.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Hammashi, Muhammad. 2011. IR fourth debate : pluralistic or hegemonic ? limitations to “Bridging the Gap”. Algerian Review of Security and Developement،Vol. 2011, no. 1, pp.1-21.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-896956
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Hammashi, Muhammad. IR fourth debate : pluralistic or hegemonic ? limitations to “Bridging the Gap”. Algerian Review of Security and Developement No. 1 (Jul. 2011), pp.1-21.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-896956
American Medical Association (AMA)
Hammashi, Muhammad. IR fourth debate : pluralistic or hegemonic ? limitations to “Bridging the Gap”. Algerian Review of Security and Developement. 2011. Vol. 2011, no. 1, pp.1-21.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-896956
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 20-21
Record ID
BIM-896956