Post Structuralism and Evolution in International Relations Discipline

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Post structuralism can be thought as a well-known approach with a mature theoretical literature. Due to the poverty of genuine theoretical resources in Iranian IR community, the article thus aims to explain poststructuralist thought and current international relations research agendas that are framed within an understanding that presumes certain readings of postsrtucturalism It behooves the article to ask what can be gained from postsrtucturalis in the fiels of ontology, epistemology and subject areas such as power, foreign policy and IR scholarship and how. Having four sections including ontology, epistemology, subject area and criticism, the article concludes that poststructuralist concepts such as language, power/ knowledge nexus, historicity, self/other duality, resistance and possibility of rearticulating of IR scholarship can ascertain a possibility for new forms of human agency in the global life. The article claims that this approach has been a horizon of new thinking in IR for some decades and it is time for reticulation of this approach in IR by paying serious attention to criticism.

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World Politics
Volume 5, Issue 3
December 2016
Pages 248-219

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