Lexington Books
Pages: 320
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4985-4499-3 • Hardback • December 2016 • $123.00 • (£95.00)
978-1-4985-4500-6 • eBook • December 2016 • $116.50 • (£90.00)
Michael Haas, who taught political science at the University of Hawai‘i for 35 years, now lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches at local colleges and universities.
1 The Beginning of the Field
2 The Great Masquerade: Waltzing to Theoretical Oblivion
3 The Need for Paradigm Development
4 Marxian Paradigm
5 Mass Society Paradigm
6 Community Building Paradigm
7 Rational Choice Paradigm
8 Other International Studies Paradigms
9 Neobehavioral International Studies
Haas's wonderfully provocative, thoughtful and compelling book may be just the medicine that young, up-and-coming international relations scholars need. He has done no less than to expose the extent to which ideology has come to substitute for careful theory building and paradigmatic reasoning. It is a tour d' force. I hope everyone will read it and take its strong message to heart. None of us will agree with everything, but none of us should dare to ignore the powerful analysis. This is a fundamental book!
— Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, New York University