INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY AS SOCIAL SCIENCE

The discipline of international relations: still an American social science?

This article reviews the state of the discipline of international relations. It starts from statements made by the editors in their editorial published in the first issue of this journal. The editors noted that there seemed to have been less adherence to positivism in international relations than in other areas of political science and that there was both more opposition to positivism and more ...

Complexity Science and Knowledge-Creation in International Relations Theory

This article demonstrates how Lakatos built his systems of justificationism and falsificationism upon the foundation of Curry’s formalist mathematics. Its fundamental result establishes the logical status of complexity science as distinct from and superseding those existing systems of proof and refutation commonly acknowledged in social science methodology in particular and scientific epistemol...

Digital political science: Pixelizing international relations

Video games have the ability to be political products and their virtual nature gives them the freedom to reflect, interpret, and even redefine the political dynamics with which we engage on a daily basis at both personal and international levels. This paper will serve as an initial proposal to a research project that will seek to create a branch of Digital Political Science outlining a method f...

a cultural theory of international relations

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Measuring international relations in social media conversations