International Political Theory and Its Critics

... Debates” abandoning any challenges to metatheoretical foundations of the discipline. The idea of their scientific futility led to the growing acceptance of theoretical relativism associated with the transition of IR studies to the stage of “normal science” (as Kuhn understood it). Meanwhile, this period witnessed the unfolding of the newest “great controversy,” equal in importance (or perhaps superior in what was really at stake) to the aforementioned debates. It put under question not just ...