Dear Reader!
I am terribly sorry for such a delay in my posts, which was caused by a progressive disorder (international?).
The entry that you will find here is devoted mainly to the issue of getting a graduate degree in international relations (or a similar field). This post is written by Dr. Fox, while he was still a graduate student, so, please, be sceptic. As much as you can.
P.S. I assume, Sir Popper will soon respond to it.
[14.04.2010]
[7:82 p.m.]
Fox
My ...
... of international territorial integrity.
An issue also exists with regard to the often violent nature of secession, epitomised by the United Nations’ principle of ‘non-use of force’, whereby:
All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.[viii]
In this instance unrecognised states ...
Dear Reader!
Sometimes a diseased mind cannot distinguish one from another, and here you will not find a conversation in its common sense, but something extremely odd. Both Dr. Fox and Sir Popper are here, enchained into one text.
The topic is war & peace, but main point is that everything is biased, and the way a person comprehends something (including such a positive idea of peace) depends mainly on one’s point of view, despite the message. Even if this person is good at reading between...
Dear Reader!
I would like to present to you a continuation of the previous post (in fact, an e-mail correspondence between the two minds) concerning the idea of 'polarity' and the use of other scientific terms in social science.
From: Dr.Fox@political_scientist.com
To: Popper@rational_critic.org
Topic: your commentary
Dear friend,
Thank you again for your vast commentary. Although I can’t understand all your enmity towards political science, I appreciate your opinion....
Dear Reader!
I have no intention to disappoint you or annoy you in case you were honestly looking for something about bipolarity in international relations, so this post will be dedicated, in some measure, to the well-known concept of ‘bipolarity’- and problems that lie beneath.
Here you will find a blog post (within a blog post), written by Fox (not a doctor yet) and ...
... by extension, a study of small states, thus it is appropriate to operate within the theoretical boundaries of small state studies.
The study of small states is, until relatively recently, something that has been largely overlooked in the field of International Relations (IR). The discipline focuses almost exclusively on the norms and actions of ‘great power politics’, finding its epitome in the power-oriented and theoretically dominant realist school.
Nevertheless there remains valid ...
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Dear Reader,
Welcome to this rather strange (or even abnormal) creation that tries to view such vast themes as international relations, (world) politics, etc. with ‘new eyes’. An attentive Reader might have noticed a mistake in the title. It was made on purpose: it’s not that I want to duck from critics, or duck you into some crazy ideas – ...
The ultimate goal of science is and ought to be, to offer the method of improving control over the external world, to pave the way from the present state of affairs to the most preferred one. The field of international relations must not be an exception, as time, effort, and money invested in the research are useful as long as its intellectual product helps achieve the goals of actors such as government agencies, transnational corporations, NGOs, and others....
