A new science of international relations modernity, complexity and the Kosovo conflict

Foucauldian methodology is here applied to Complexity Science in order to generate a new understanding of International Relations, particularly to the conflict in Kosovo. The book shows how theoretical issues inform understandings of crisis, leading to decisions in the real world of international po...

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Main Author: Popolo, Damian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Routledge Ashgate Publishing 2011
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505 0 |a Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Three Research Questions -- Three Balkan Stories -- The Architecture of an Argument -- 1. Complexity and the Modern Episteme: Epistemological Outline of a New Science -- Introduction: French Philosophy and the Modern Episteme -- The Thought of Henri Bergson -- Bergson and Complexity Science: Ilya Prigogine -- A (Short) Genesis of Complexity -- Complexity, Post-Structuralism, and the Modern Episteme -- Conclusion -- 2. An Archaeology of Modernity -- Introduction -- The Modern Episteme -- Discourse Formation in the Modern Empirical Sciences -- Science and Fragmentation: The End of Empiricism -- The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science -- Conclusion 
505 0 |a 3. Complexity, International Relations and Ethics from an Epistemic Perspective -- Introduction: Science as the new Metaphysics in Transcendental Philosophies of the Object -- An Archaeology of International Relations (IR) Theory: From Raymond Aron to Kenneth Waltz -- Neorealist IR as a Modern Empirical Science -- IR's Understanding of the Kosovo Crisis and the Role of Critical Geopolitics -- Complexity, Ethics and the Analytic of Finitude Metaphysical Law and Ethical Categorisations -- Conclusion -- Intermezzo A Roadmap to an Argument -- 4. International Relations and Modern Interpretations of the Kosovo Crisis -- Ethno-Diplomacy and International Relations -- Fighting Ugly: Doing Good by Doing Evil -- The Evolution of Humanitarian Intervention -- Conclusion: Epistemic Considerations on the Key Debates. 
505 0 |a 5. Legal-Ethical Frameworks on Kosovo, Modern Analytical Finitude at Work -- Introduction -- NATO and the International Court of Justice -- NATO and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia -- Another Failed Jurisdiction: The European Court of Human Rights -- Conclusion: Universal Exclusion and the Complexity Ethic -- 6. Ancient Ethnic Hatreds -- Introduction: Complexity and Six Hundred Years of Non-Linear History -- Living in the Past, in the Present: Apprehensions of Time in Nationalist Discourse -- The Banality of Ethnic Conflict and Immanent Power Struggles -- Clashes of Modernities: Apprehensions of Time in Reaction to Nationalist Discourse -- Conclusion: Historical Linearity at Work -- 7. Conclusion: International Relations, Complexity and the Kosovo Crisis 
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650 0 |a Kosovo War, 1998-1999  |x Diplomatic history 
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