03488nam a22004455i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001300172072001600185072002300201072001500224100008900239245014000328250001800468264007900486300004300565336002600608337002600634338003600660347002400696490006000720505068500780520117101465650003602636650004302672710003402715773002602749776003602775776003602811776003602847830006702883856004602950912001402996912001503010999001703025978-3-031-72096-3DE-He21320251030114920.0cr nn 008mamaa250107s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830317209639978-3-031-72096-37 a10.1007/978-3-031-72096-32doi 4aJZ2-6530 7aJPS2bicssc 7aPOL0110002bisacsh 7aJPS2thema1 aPourmokhtari, Navid.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut99017510aToward a Paradigm Shift in International Relations Studiesh[electronic resource] :b(Re)Claiming World Peace /cby Navid Pourmokhtari.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXII, 125 p. 2 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aPalgrave Studies in International Relations,x2946-26810 aChapter 1- A Brief Account of a Kuhnian Paradigm and Paradigm Shift -- Chapter 2- Why a Foucauldian-Inspired Discursive Approach to IR studies? -- Chapter 3 - The Present IR Paradigm: Genesis and Foundational Assumptions -- Chapter 4-Theory-as-Discourse: Neorealism and Neoliberalism as IR Paradigm Maintainer Theories -- Chapter 5- The IR Paradigm: Human Nature, the State of Nature and the Discourse on State Sovereignty -- Chapter 6- The Current IR Paradigm and Dominant Discourses: International Policies and Global Practices -- Conclusion-The Case for a Paradigm Shift in IR: Knowledge Surveillance, Knowledge Fundamentalism and the Present IR Paradigm’s Disciplinary Gaze.  aThis book asks why the current IR paradigm has outlasted its utility and argues that despite changes to world politics, the paradigm of IR remains far more preoccupied with the dynamics of war and almost silent, when it comes to commenting on the conditions of lasting, global peace. Cognizant of the dominant paradigms supposed preoccupation with seeking peace, the author shows how IR’s mainstream discourses work to reproduce war. Navid Pourmokhtari teaches at Concordia University of Edmonton. His research interests lie in comparative politics and international relations studies with a focus on gender and feminism, social movements and revolutionary studies, and international peace and security studies. Pourmokhtari’s first book, entitled Iran’s Green Movement: Everyday Resistance, Political Contestation, and Social Mobilization, was published in 2021. His other recent publications have appeared in Third World Quarterly, International Sociology, Against the Current, Jadaliyya, the Journal of Human Trafficking, Sociology of Islam, Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis, Foucault Studies, and the Journal of International Women’s Studies. 0aInternational relations.95810314aInternational Relations Theory.9683032 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303172095608iPrinted edition:z978303172097008iPrinted edition:z9783031720987 0aPalgrave Studies in International Relations,x2946-268196956140uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72096-3  aZDB-2-POS  aZDB-2-SXPI  c66349d66349