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  • The Promise and Perils of Interpretivism in Australian International Relations

    Author(s)
    Hall, Ian
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Hall, Ian I.
    Year published
    2014
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    Australian International Relations (IR) was once a hybrid of American and European styles of political science, but today it is dominated by a British-inspired post-positivism which has its virtues - and its vices - and which utilises various interpretive and semi-interpretive approaches. This paper welcomes the 'interpretive turn' in Australian IR, but recognises its weaknesses, and argues that, to overcome them, interpretivists must be clear about what interpretivism should and should not entail. It argues that a thoroughgoing interpretivism offers two things that qualitative work in Australian IR desperately needs: a ...
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    Australian International Relations (IR) was once a hybrid of American and European styles of political science, but today it is dominated by a British-inspired post-positivism which has its virtues - and its vices - and which utilises various interpretive and semi-interpretive approaches. This paper welcomes the 'interpretive turn' in Australian IR, but recognises its weaknesses, and argues that, to overcome them, interpretivists must be clear about what interpretivism should and should not entail. It argues that a thoroughgoing interpretivism offers two things that qualitative work in Australian IR desperately needs: a revived focus on explaining international relations, as well as understanding it, and a renewed engagement with other fields and other modes of studying the field.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Journal of Public Administration
    Volume
    73
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12084
    Subject
    International Relations
    Economics
    Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
    Studies in Human Society
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/66335
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