Open AccessThe Creation of Myth: Starting the First "Great Debate" in International Relations Theory
Author(s) -
Tatya Alekseeva
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
vestnik mgimo-universiteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2541-9099
pISSN - 2071-8160
DOI - 10.24833/2071-8160-2015-6-45-30-39
Subject(s) - idealism , rationalism , realism , traditionalism , mythology , epistemology , modernism (music) , politics , international relations , philosophy , sociology , social science , aesthetics , political science , law , humanities , theology
From one textbook to another wanders the story about three (sometimes - four) Great debates, which formed the canonical history of the theory of international relations. In reality everything was much more complicated, and the theoretical richness much wider than many times repeated antinomic pairs - realism vs. idealism, traditionalism vs. modernism, rationalism vs. reflectivism The author regards the discussions between different trends of the political thought in the interwar period, which were later called the First "Great Debates", which, according to the author's view were pre-paradigmal.