The World in a “Precedence of Simulacra”: Towards a Triumph of Historicism?

... historical aspects of oriental studies), international relations have traditionally been influenced by historical research methodology. Accordingly, even despite their interdisciplinary nature, these subjects have been affected by challenges encountered in history as a branch of learning. Vasily Kuznetsov: The Middle East: Postmodernism Is Over In the 1990s, Russian historical science abandoned Marxism, yet failed to immediately develop revised theoretical and methodological foundations that would go beyond pure “descriptivism” [ 1 ] (even though it did make limited ...