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The promise of critical IR, partially kept
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2007
Abstract
The critical turn in IR promised a continuous archeology of the field, an empathetic understanding of those we study, and a social science unwedded to the pursuit of universally valid laws. In the United States, this movement was rooted more in a critique of peace research, than in a critique of the ‘NeoNeo’ mainstream, to which it became sort of ‘official opposition’. The promise has not been fulfilled because the research strategies of critical theorists have rarely given them direct access to the understandings of those outside the privileged core of world society. Other research programmes, including that of the Human Development Reports and of some feminists and ethnographic scholars in IR, have been more successful.
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- Review of International Studies , Volume 33 , Special Issue S1: Critical International Relations Theory after 25 years , April 2007 , pp. 117 - 133
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- Copyright © British International Studies Association 2007
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