Building on the work of critical theory and radical interpretivism, this important new book outlines the parameters of an approach to world politics that stresses the opportunities as well as the difficulties of a cosmopolitan approach.
Critical Theory and World Politics is divided into three parts. Part one, The Interpretivist Turn, examines the development of international theories in the 1970s and '80s which criticized the mainstream accounts on both methodological and substantive grounds. Part two, Critical Theory and its Critics, studies the basic assumptions of one approach within this general pattern, critical interpretive theory. It discusses and outlines the notion of cosmopolitanism for world politics, considering critiques of this position from both mainstream and radical interpretivist positions and responses to them. Part three, Cosmopolitanism in Theory and Practice, considers the implications of this theory for specific aspects of world politics and issues including among others the environment, migration and hunger.
- ISBN13 9781852781934
- Publish Date 1 January 1990
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 22 September 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English