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Review # 1 was written on 2014-03-13 00:00:00 Pierre Gr�goire Terekomendasi oleh tulisan Steve Smith The Discipline Of International Relations: Still An American Social Science? "This systematic misrepresentation has been illustrated by the path-breaking work of Brian Schmidt (1998), who has shown that both the chronological and the ‘great debates’ versions of the history of IR are misleading: Focusing on the work emanating from the US, Schmidt has studied the origins of the distinct discipline of IR (origins that usually start with the formation of the first department of the discipline at Aberystwyth in 1919), and the nature of the scholarly debate within that field in the inter-war period. He has found two main misrepresentations. The first is that the subject of IR was studied long before the First World War, and thus the date usually given for its foundation is wrong. But note how convenient it is to claim that the discipline emerges out of the carnage of the First World War: it makes it so much easier to present a (political) reading of the character of this new discipline as idealist since it naturally focused on how to prevent such events from occurring again. For Schmidt the work undertaken between 1880 and the outbreak of the First World War ‘is absolutely essential for understanding the interwar discourse of international relations. It was this earlier conversation that provided the most important discursive framework for those who were studying international relations after World War 1’ (Schmidt, 1998, p 231). His second main finding is that there was not a dominance of what is now called idealist work in the inter-war years; there was a variety of approaches, and most of them were concerned with developing what might be called a ‘realistic’ account of world politics. As he writes: ‘contrary to conventional accounts of the history of the field in which international relations scholars of the interwar period are characterised as “idealists”, the distinctiveness of their contribution lies not in their idealism but in their explicit attempt to mitigate the international anarchy…although [they:] may have been optimists, in that they believed something could be done about the existing international situation, they were not idealistic in the sense that they failed to face the real character of international politics’ (Schmidt, 1998, p 191). Schmidt’s main claim is that these misreadings are important to the subsequent history of the discipline because they have led to a ‘foundational myth’, which portrays realism as replacing idealism, and this myth has structured debate about IR through to the present day." Pertanyaan saya, "Ada yang punya dan bisa dipinjem?" :D

Review # 2 was written on 2016-11-22 00:00:00 Richard Butler There's no need to read this collection of essays by various scholars if you haven't read Tristram Shandy itself, but if like me you have and were slightly puzzled by its classic status, this book will fill in some of the missing pieces.